I am using Plesk on several servers and what I would like to do is make two separate dns servers that I have authoritative for a given domain that a customer is hosting with us, rather than the server that is hosting the customer's web site.

ie: user is hosted on web01, I would like the name servers serving their domain to be ns01 and ns02.

Plesk likes to have the local server (as in the web server) handle dns, however for the purposes of account portability this is sub-optimal. I have thought of a few solutions but I would like to see what you guys out there are doing.

Thanks.

You can turn off DNS on web01. And all customers have to do is set up ns01 and ns02 in their domain registration i.e. at registrar.

Simple as that. :)

Just to add to masood's post, don't forget to update your dns reflecting the correct ip for the site..

laterz,
palmtree

masood & palmtree said it all ;)

Originally posted by MattS
masood & palmtree said it all ;)


Maybe I wasn't specific enough in my question, but the point was being able to also allow my users to edit their domains as well. How will doing what these guys suggest facillitate that?

To recap:

User is hosted on web01, I want ns01 and ns02 to be authoritatitive for their domain and have them be able to edit their domains in plesk.

Originally posted by masood
You can turn off DNS on web01. And all customers have to do is set up ns01 and ns02 in their domain registration i.e. at registrar.

Simple as that. :)

Do you use plesk? How do they edit their domains now? I need an automated solution that does not require me setting up everything by hand.

Originally posted by exp


Do you use plesk? How do they edit their domains now? I need an automated solution that does not require me setting up everything by hand.

I'm not sure on that one. You could try the Plesk forum (http://forum.plesk.com) maybe that will help..

Originally posted by exp


Do you use plesk? How do they edit their domains now? I need an automated solution that does not require me setting up everything by hand.

I don't use plesk in production environment. But what I can say from the way it works, you won't be able to do both things. The plesk can only edit the configuration files on the server it runs.

Try the plesk forums, and don't forget to let us know your final conclusion. :)

Just an idea - you could set up 2 independent DNS servers and make both of them secondaries to the Plesk servers. Arrange your SOA records so that the secondaries pull the DNS records from your live Plesk servers every hour or so.

You'd make your customers use just these independent name servers and they could still edit their DNS data trough Plesk...

Now, would this work... :rolleyes: let me think... :)

Or you could make both independent and Plesk servers primary and write a script to refresh the DNS records on the independent servers from your Plesk servers...

Is this what you have in mind...?

Originally posted by Ales
Just an idea - you could set up 2 independent DNS servers and make both of them secondaries to the Plesk servers. Arrange your SOA records so that the secondaries pull the DNS records from your live Plesk servers every hour or so.

You'd make your customers use just these independent name servers and they could still edit their DNS data trough Plesk...

Now, would this work... :rolleyes: let me think... :)

Or you could make both independent and Plesk servers primary and write a script to refresh the DNS records on the independent servers from your Plesk servers...

Is this what you have in mind...?

bind9 + dynamic updates/TSIG/DNSSEC in a master/slave setup

How's that?