Force Plesk to re-write all DNS zone files

[perfectpenguin]

Hi,
Let's say some or all of a severs DNS zone files had accidentally become screwed but all the information in plesk (and therefore the plesk database) was still correct. Does anyone know of a command to issue that would force plesk to rewrite the zone files?

Thanks,

Simon

 

[jlschwab]

You simply need to run:

# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/dnsmng update domain.tld

You will need to run that for every domain involved.

You can do it for all your domains, by trying this nifty little shortcut:

(This shortcut is listed on the SW Soft Knowledge Base As well)

# mysql -Ns -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` -D psa -e 'select name from domains' | awk '{print "/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/dnsmng update " $1 }' | sh

KB URL: http://faq.swsoft.com/article_20_154_en.html

If this does not solve your problems, please feel free to contact me here or directly at any time, I'll be glad to help you!

Hope this helps!

 

[perfectpenguin]

Great stuff, thanks Jason. Just what I needed!

Best Regards,

Simon

 

[Cranky]

Out of interest, which Plesk build did you have this problem with? Or was it caused by human error or something else rather than Plesk?

 

[perfectpenguin]

No, to be fair this isn't a plesk generated problem. I use 4PSA Total Domains which is an excellent package for taking all the work out of hosting 'alias' domains (i.e. all mail and web for company.co.uk > plesk domain company.com) without consuming plesk licences. However, for some clients I need to pipe mail out direct to their own mail servers which nowmally just requires a DNS zone file change and a manual alteration to a QMail file that plesk never touches. This level of overriding is not possible for a domain managed via TotalDomains so I'm going to write a PHP script that will let me add DNS zones and data directly into the Plesk database. This way I won't need to worry about plesk ever automatically overwriting non-plesk zone files that I may have created but I did need a way of making it write out the files in the first place, after having entered the information into the database - hence my question.

Of course, if after reading this long and convoluted explanation (why use ten words when 100 will do the job!!), you can see a better way of acheiving my goal, I'm all ears.....

All the best,

Simon