PLESK 7.5 FOR WINDOWS > Performing Administrative Tasks

Managing the DNS Zone Template

Plesk allows creation and use of default DNS Zone Template, intended to simplify setting up the DNS records for a freshly created new domain. This feature provides you with a number of DNS records that are more or less standard for a DNS zone.

In order to add a new DNS template record follow these steps:

  1. Click the DNS icon on the Server administration page. The DNS Zone Template page appears:

    The DNS Zone Status icon at the top of the page indicates whether the DNS is turned on or off.

  2. Select the type of record you wish to add from the Record type drop-down box and click Add DNS record. The DNS Zone Template Records Editing page appears:

  3. Fill the required information into the input fields (the type of the information required depends on the type of the DNS record selected).

  4. Click OK to submit the entered data and add the new record to the template.

NOTE

The following domain name and host IP templates can be used: <domain>, which is then replaced with the domain name, and <ip>, which is replaced by the primary IP address.

In order to remove a DNS record from the template, select a record using the checkbox, and click Remove Selected. The confirmation dialog box will appear. Click OK to confirm. The record will be immediately removed.

  • If you wish to turn the DNS on for the template, click Enable, or click Disable to turn it off.

  • Turning the DNS zone off will refresh the page, so that only a list of nameservers remains:

  • If you are running remote DNS, and therefore want to turn DNS off, you should create the appropriate NS entries to be stored in the template. To add a nameserver: click Add DNS record, enter the nameserver in the appropriate input field, and click OK.

To restore the default DNS zone template, click the Default icon.


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