Configuring Parallels Pro Control Panel as a Forward Server
To configure Parallels Pro as a forward server:
- Add the external server first before mentioning external DNS server as master server.
Note: The external server should not be a part of the local name server.
- Ensure that the external server and local-box time are in sync.
- Ensure that the external server has correct entries about the slave site zone/s(Parallels Pro Control Panel zones) in its DNS. (that is, in
named.conf
and the zone records) before adding the site/s. - Use the external server entry for the both the master server and the slave server, while adding sites/plans/zones. Else,
- Make the external server permanent, by making their entries as master and slave in default plan, before adding new sites.
- You should see the zone configuration in SOA section as Type - Forward for newly added sites with the IP address of the forwarder servers.
- After adding a site, you should see the created zone/s of newly added sites as Forward in the zone type.
- You can Add/Edit/Delete records of an existing forward zone from Parallels Pro server, and these changes will get transferred to a external master server. (
rndc transfer
) - If there are changes in the zone/s of the external master server, you should see the updated records in the respective zone/s of forward Parallels Pro Control Panel server.
- If there are changes in zone/s of the external master server, you can update the records on forward zone of Parallels Pro Control Panel server by doing the Refresh action for a particulate slave zone.