## Adjusting DNS General Settings

To adjust DNS general settings:

1. Open the Service Director submenu and select Domain Manager.
2. Click on the Setup on the Domain Manager submenu.
3. Click the General tab. The Domain Manager General setup form appears on the screen.
4. Click the Edit button. The screen reloads with the General setup for editing;
5. Fill the form:
   1. Select the default name servers set from the Default name servers set drop-down menu. This is the set to be used by default to register domains for Containers, for web hosting. Thus, only manageable name server sets are available as default ones.

      Note: The default name servers set is used only if the active domain-registration plug-in is configured to use Provider DNS. If the active plug-in is configured to use the Registrar DNS, then this setting is ignored.

   2. Use DNS Template for switching to DNS Hosting. Parallels Business Automation - Standard supports switching a domain management from DNS hosting (when a domain zone file is created at Parallels Business Automation - Standard name servers) to domain pointer (when no zone file is created and Parallels Business Automation - Standard name servers do not resolve a domain) and conversely. When you switch a domain from domain pointer to DNS hosting, a zone file must be created for a domain. you can check this box to use the default DNS template for zone files creation in such cases.
   3. Default MX priority. This option is used for mail setup for owners of subdomains registered in Provider default domain (i.e., a domain does not belong to a customer). For example, when a customer buys Container and registers for this Container a domain in Provider's default domain, the corresponding MX record pointing to a customer's Container is created in the Provider default domain zone file. This allows receiving e-mail for a customer.And the Default MX priority allows setting the priority for this mail exchanger. Typically this is a low priority, so the number specified should be not very small (for example, 255).
   4. Default record TTL. The default time-to-live assigned to resource records in zone files.

   The next two options allow controlling the reverse DNS records (PTR) creation for Plesk Domains and Containers. PTR (pointer) records are the reverse of A records: whereas the latter maps names to addresses, PTR addresses map addresses to names.
   Note: These two options are available for Provider Control Center only and affect Provider and all Resellers.

   1. Import PTR records from Plesk. It is possible to switch the primary DNS synchronization source from Plesk DNS to Parallels Business Automation - Standard and converserly. This is done per Plesk hosting plans, on the Persimmions Setup step. When Plesk DNS is set as a primary source (the Manage DNS permission is enabled) all the DNS records are imported from Plesk to Parallels Business Automation - Standard DNS. There can be many PTR records in Plesk zones since shared IP addresses are widely used. If you do not want to import all these PTR records into Parallels Business Automation - Standard, you can clear this box and this will override the 'Mange DNS' persission for all Plesk zones.
   2. Create PTR records for Containers. For Containers PTR records are added automatically. If you do not want to add PTR records for Container zones, clear this box, otherwise - check it.
   3. Available periods. Select domain registration periods that will be shown on the Prices form for each TLD. To make a period available, check the box next to a period name. To disallow a period, clear the box next to this period name.
   4. Allow customers to enter International Domain Names (IDN). Parallels Business Automation - Standard supports Internationalized Domain Names registration and here you can allow or disallow your customers to register IDNs. To allow IDNs registration, check this box. To disallow IDNs, clear this box.
   5. If a domain expiration date is unknown for a transferred domain, Parallels Business Automation - Standard automatically sets this date to one year starting from domain transfer moment. To ensure the correctness of domains registration expiration date stored in Parallels Business Automation - Standard database, you can configure the auto-check of domain expiration date at Registrar. If this option is enabled, Parallels Business Automation - Standard will run a periodical task trying to contact a Registrar and get the domain expiration date confirmation. If a Registrar does not reply, Parallels Business Automation - Standard will try to check a domain expiration date via whois. To configure the domain expiration date validation, check the Run domains real expiry date checking box and enter how frequently (in days) the check is to be performed into the relevant field. In addition, you can set the order of domain expiration date fix in case this date is incorrect and does not considerably differ from a correct date (not greater that one month). To enable this auto-fix, check the Autofix if expiry date mismatch is less or equal to box and enter the maximal difference in days into the relevant field.
6. Click the OK button.

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