Managing DNS

Operator: <dns>

XML Schema: dns_input.xsd, dns_output.xsd

Plesk version: all versions

XML API version: all versions

Plesk user: Plesk Administrator; resellers and customers who have the permission to manage the DNS zone of their domains in the UI

Description

Plesk supports the following functionality:

• Managing DNS records
• Managing ACL
• Managing SOA record and zone parameters
• Synchronyzing DNS Zones with Template
• Managing name servers
• Managing local or remote DNS servers
• Managing recursive requests to DNS servers

Supported operations

• ADD_REC adds a DNS record of the specified type to the specified site zone
• GET_REC retrieves information about certain DNS records
• DEL_REC removes the specified DNS record(s)
• GET_ACL retrieves access control lists (ACL) from the server
• ADD_TO_ACL adds hosts to ACL
• REMOVE_FROM_ACL removes hosts from ACL
• SET updates the SOA record settings for the specified zone or zone template
• GET retrieves the SOA record settings
• SWITCH switches the DNS zone type between ‘master’ and ‘slave’
• ADD_MASTER_SERVER adds a new master DNS server for the specified zone
• GET_MASTER_SERVER retrieves the master server for the specified zone
• DEL_MASTER_SERVER removes the master server for the specified zone
• ENABLE enables the name server for the specified zone
• DISABLE disables the name server for the specified site
• ENABLE-REMOTE-DNS switches the DNS server to primary mode
• DISABLE-REMOTE-DNS switches the DNS server to slave mode
• GET-STATUS-REMOTE-DNS retrieves the status of the remote DNS server
• SET-RECURSION sets up preferences of recursive requests to DNS server
• GET-RECURSION retrieves the recursion preferences DNS server
• GET-SUPPORTED-RECURSION retrieves the available types of recursion for the DNS server