Exporting/Importing Individual Sites with DNS Zones

To perform the exporting and importing of individual sites with DNS zones efficiently, DNS has a distributed architecture composed of many hierarchical DNS name servers. Each DNS name server is responsible for both name-to-IP-address translations (called forward lookups) and IP-address-to name translations (called reverse lookups). Each DNS name server manages the lookups for domain name spaces. In DNS, these domain name spaces are referred to as zones.

The term zone is used to denote information, such as host records, about a domain. To import Web sites with DNS zones, the domain name and IP address must be registered with at least two DNS name servers: a master DNS server and a slave DNS server (or backup name server). You can use the Parallels Pro Control Panel server or any external server as a master server or slave server.

Using this feature you can now:

• Import Web sites from one Parallels Pro Control Panel server to another Parallels Pro Control Panel server having the same name servers
• Import Web sites from one Parallels Pro Control Panel server to another Parallels Pro Control Panel server having different name servers