Question plesk server as dns server

[stas styler]

Hey pleskians,

A very important question. I've been looking around and didn't find the answer.
I want to buy a new server and install plesk on it, and configure it to act as only a dns server running plesk.
Then when I add more servers, they would slave it so that we would have 2 constant records on ns servers for all our servers.

We sell shared hosting, and we would like to make 1 server to act only as dns server for all our clients no matter what server we add in our stack.

How should this be done?

 

[IgorG]

To be honest, it is very strange decision to use Plesk only for DNS service. But anyway, you can manage your slave DNS servers with Plesk Slave DNS Manager extension - Slave DNS Manager - Plesk Extensions

 

[stas styler]

To be honest, it is very strange decision to use Plesk only for DNS service. But anyway, you can manage your slave DNS servers with Plesk Slave DNS Manager extension - Slave DNS Manager - Plesk Extensions

Could you please explain me why is it a strange decision? Actually, we just want to make a DNS server that takes all the requests and manages the whole DNS for everyone.
But, in the same time to have a nice gui, isn't it somehow rational?

 

[IgorG]

Could you please explain me why is it a strange decision?

I just wanted to say that managing DNS is only an insignificant part of Plesk possibilities
It seemed strange not to use the rest of all Plesk possibilities.

 

[RaHa]

Have a look here: CHECKIP @ NET - DYNDNS - checkip.net - Own DynDNS service DDNS with Plesk

 

[mr-wolf]

Could you please explain me why is it a strange decision? Actually, we just want to make a DNS server that takes all the requests and manages the whole DNS for everyone.
But, in the same time to have a nice gui, isn't it somehow rational?

It's not a strange decision. I have done exactly that.
One can rent a server with Plesk for not that much and have a nice GUI to manage it.

On another Plesk server that doesn't have DNS configured I installed bind.
The bind is therefore configured outside of Plesk's control and that's how I want it.
That bind is configured as a slave server for the authoritative server.

The 2 (or more) servers should be on complete different infrastructures.
It's better to have 2 on different infrastructures than 4 on the same infrastructure.

On the authoritative server I have installed the Slave DNS manager that IgorG referred to.