server_dns.exe: DNS Zone Template

The server_dns.exe utility is used to manage Plesk server’s DNS zone
template. Using this utility, you can perform the following tasks:

• adding resource records to or replacing already existing resource
  records with new ones in Plesk server’s DNS zone template
• specifying the status to be set for a domain’s DNS zone upon creation
  of a domain
• modifying SOA record for the DNS zone template
• setting Plesk name server DNS zone preferences regarding recursive
  DNS queries from different types of hosts
• managing the Access control list (ACL records)

Location

%plesk_cli%

Usage

server_dns.exe <command> [
<option_1> [<param>]
[<option_2> [<param>]]
... [<option_N> [<param>]]
]

Example

The following command adds the following two resource records to the
domain DNS zone template, while removing all pre-existing resource
records from the domain DNS zone template:

• new MX resource record <domain> specifying mail.<domain> as
  the mail exchanger for the record, and setting the mail exchanger’s
  priority to 15.

• new NS resource record <domain> setting domain ns.<domain> as
  the name server.

  plesk bin server_dns.exe --set "MX,"",mail.<domain>,15;NS,"",ns.<domain>"