Plesk comes with a DNS server out of the box and allows both customers
and the server administrator to manage a wide range of DNS settings.
This topic explains the purpose of the server-wide DNS template and how
to work with it.
The server-wide DNS template is a list of DNS records. Every time a
domain is created in Plesk, its DNS zone is populated with DNS records
according to the DNS template. The default DNS template created during
the installation of Plesk contains all the DNS records necessary for a
website to function, but you are free to add, change, or remove records
from the template as you see fit. The DNS template has the following
benefits:
- It ensures that every domain created in Plesk has all the necessary
DNS records with no need for user input. - It gives the Plesk administrator the ability to make bulk changes to
all DNS zones on the server (only on Linux).
Configuring the Server-Wide DNS Template
To see the records currently present in the DNS template, go to Tools
& Settings > DNS Template. You can also add, modify, and remove
records on this screen.
To add a record, click Add DNS Record. To modify a record, click its
name. When adding or modifying records, you can use the following
placeholders that are replaced with actual values during domain
creation:
-
<domain>is replaced with the name of the domain. -
<subdomain>is replaced with the name of the subdomain. -
<hostname>is replaced with the hostname. -
<ip>, <ip.dns>,<ip.web>,<ip.mail>,<ip.webmail>are
equal. All of them are replaced with the IPv4 address of the
subscription to which the domain belongs. -
<ipv6>, <ipv6.dns>,<…