dns.exe: DNS Zones on Domains

The dns.exe utility is used to manage DNS zones on domains and
domain aliases. Using this utility, you can perform the following tasks:

• enabling/disabling a local DNS service on a domain or domain alias
• adding/deleting resource records to/from a domain’s or domain alias’
  DNS zone
• setting Plesk name server as the master or slave server for a DNS
  zone
• assigning external master DNS servers for a DNS zone
• enabling or disabling the www-prefixed alias (in the
  www.<domain name> form) support for canonical domain names
• updating the Start-of-Authority (SOA) record for a DNS zone

Location

%plesk_cli%

Usage

dns.exe <command> [<domain name>|<domain_alias>] [
<option_1> [<param>]
[<option_2> [<param>]]
... [<option_N> [<param>]]
]

Example

The following command removes all pre-existing resource records from the
DNS zone on the domain example.com and adds the following two records
to the DNS zone:

• new MX resource record mail3.example.com specifying domain name
  mail.example.com as the mail exchanger and setting the mail
  exchanger’s priority to 15

• new NS resource record ns2.example.com setting domain
  ns.example.com as the name server

  plesk bin dns.exe --set example.com -list "MX,mail3,mail.example.com,15;NS,ns2,ns.example.com"