178 Serving Your Customers
Serving Sites with External Domain Name Servers
If you host web sites on this server and have a standalone DNS server acting as a
primary (master) name server for your sites, you may want to set up your control
panel's DNS server to function as a secondary (slave) name server.
To make the control panel's DNS server act as a secondary name server:
1 Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the required domain name in the list.
3 Click DNS Settings in the Services group.
4 Click Switch in the Tools group.
5 Specify the IP address of the primary (master) DNS server.
6 Click Add.
7 Repeat steps from 1 to 5 for each web site that needs to have a
secondary name server on your server.
To make the control panel’s DNS server act as a primary for a zone:
1 Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the required domain name in the list.
3 Click DNS Settings in the Services group.
4 Click Switch in the Tools group. The original resource records for the
zone will be restored.
If you have external name servers authoritative for some of your web sites, switch off
the control panel‘s DNS service for each site served by external name servers:
1 Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the required domain name in the list.
3 Click DNS Settings in the Services group.
4 Click Switch off in the Tools group. Turning the DNS service off for the
zone will refresh the screen, so that only a list of name servers
remains.
Note: The listed name server records have no effect on the system. They are only
presented on the screen as clickable links to give you a chance to validate the
configuration of the zone maintained on the external authoritative name servers.
5 Repeat the steps from 1 to 3 to switch off the local domain name
service for each site served by external name servers.
If you wish to validate the configuration of a zone maintained on authoritative name
servers:
1 Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the required domain name in the list.
3 Click DNS Settings in the Services group.
