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Resolved AWS Route 53 extension with White Label DNS servers

Matt N

New Pleskian
Hi All,

I am hoping that someone can provide some pointers on using the AWS Route 53 extension with Plesk and AWS to deliver WhiteLabel DNS servers using AWS for my hosted domains.

I am running Plesk Obsidian 18.0.20 (although the same behaviour exists in Onyx 17.8.11 as well).

Following the details in this article. I have set up the AWS extension, and data is pushing into AWS all okay.

In Plesk:
in my own domain (example.com) I have set up the following records:
Code:
ns1.example.com A 100.10.20.40
ns2.example.com A 100.20.40.50
ns3.example.com A 100.30.30.60
ns4.example.com A 100.40.30.80

example.com. NS ns1.example.com
example.com. NS ns2.example.com
example.com. NS ns3.example.com
example.com. NS ns4.example.com

For my clients domains, the DNS records listed are :
Code:
clientdomain.com. NS ns1.example.com
clientdomain.com. NS ns2.example.com
clientdomain.com. NS ns3.example.com
clientdomain.com. NS ns4.example.com

This has been working well for some time. Now, I want to use AWS Route 53.

I have created a reusable Delegation Set - and got 4 DNS servers and their associated IPv4 addresses.

When I remove, then sync all domains from plesk all the zones are created in Route53 - however, all zones have different NS records to the actual Re-usable delegation set that was created. Even my own domain (example.com) doesn't have the reusable delegation set that is listed.

I don't want to have to go and change the NS records in AWS for each of my client's zones - that kinda defeats the purpose of the integration.

I can get my head around having to initially configure my own white-label/vanity name server records in my AWS zone - ie changing :
Code:
ns-1984.awsdns-56.co.uk.
ns-862.awsdns-43.net.
ns-1398.awsdns-46.org.
ns-277.awsdns-34.com.

to
Code:
ns1.example.com.
ns2.example.com.
ns3.example.com.
ns4.example.com.

but my confusion - is that the default AWS NS records that exist in my NS record in my zone at AWS:
  • don't match the Reusable Delegation Set that Plesk shows
  • don't appear in each of my client's zones
What am I missing? what haven't I done?
 
it seems the the following steps might have actually resolved this:

  1. removed all zone records from AWS (using Plesk Mass Management
  2. removed Reusable Delegation set that was created previously
  3. Create new Reusable Delegation set
  4. Mark new Reusable delegation set as default
  5. Force "Sync of all zones" to AWS again
 
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