Set up non plesk slave dns server

[Michael Andrews]

I have found the documentation that will allow zone transfers
zone serverbuddies.com {
type slave;
file serverbuddies.com.zone;
masters { 192.168.0.1; };
};

However, you have to go in and manually add that code to that file every time you create a new domain. Is there a way to automate plesk to make it add that to the file every time?

 

[clinton4]

I would also like to know this

 

[Michael Andrews]

He, good luck. Plesk's support sucks, as well as their hosting software. I've used a few in my time and theirs is by far the worst. I ended up scheduling a task that went like this to fix my issue.
Create a bat file that reads your primary and dns server zones like so
dnscmd primaryDnsServerName /enumzones > zones.txt
dnscmd secondaryDnsServerName /enumzones > master.txt

Read those files with your program of choice finding any domains that have been added/removed from comparing the primary to secondary. Use that program to write another batch file with all of the appropriate dns commands
dnscmd secondaryDnsServerName /ZoneAdd domainHere /Secondary primaryDnsIpHere or
dnscmd secondaryDnsServerName /ZoneRefresh domainHere or
dnscmd secondaryDnsServerName /ZoneDelete domainHere

then execute that bat file. Not pretty but it works.

 

[Sam_CT]

Whilst the above seems to be ok for Windows servers - I'm using Linux.

Does anyone know how to setup something like this for Linux?

Perhaps BIND can be configured to notify the slave?