Question Slave DNS Manager - master OS, use existing slaves

[SteveITS]

We are thinking of migrating our system from Parallels Plesk Automation, which we have set up with three DNS-only nameservers (CentOS). We just started talking to a prospect who is looking for multiple Windows servers.

Can we use Plesk Onyx on Windows, with the Slave DNS Manager extension, and share the slaves with Linux servers? The doc page (Slave DNS Manager extension - Plesk) doesn't mention an OS, just says "Plesk 12.0.18 and up."

Can we use our existing PPA DNS servers for both PPA and Slave DNS Manager? (Obviously the domain would need to be in one system or the other but not both) Or would we need to set up additional servers and go through the hassle of changing DNS servers for all domains?

Thanks,

 

[IgorG]

Can we use Plesk Onyx on Windows, with the Slave DNS Manager extension, and share the slaves with Linux servers? The doc page (Slave DNS Manager extension - Plesk) doesn't mention an OS, just says "Plesk 12.0.18 and up."

Yes, you can install this extension on Windows servers too, but BIND must be used as DNS server there instead of MS DNS server. And yes, extension manages a remote slave DNS servers via rndc (BIND) protocol, therefore you can share slave DNS servers between any servers with installed BIND.

Can we use our existing PPA DNS servers for both PPA and Slave DNS Manager? (Obviously the domain would need to be in one system or the other but not both) Or would we need to set up additional servers and go through the hassle of changing DNS servers for all domains?

We didn't test this scenario. I think that your first option should work, but unfortunately, the theory does not always coincide with practice. Try it and share results with the community.