Configuring Parallels Pro Control Panel as a Forward Server

To configure Parallels Pro as a forward server:

1. 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.

2. Ensure that the external server and local-box time are in sync.
3. 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.
4. Use the external server entry for the both the master server and the slave server, while adding sites/plans/zones. Else,
5. Make the external server permanent, by making their entries as master and slave in default plan, before adding new sites.
6. You should see the zone configuration in SOA section as Type - Forward for newly added sites with the IP address of the forwarder servers.
7. After adding a site, you should see the created zone/s of newly added sites as Forward in the zone type.
8. 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)
9. 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.
10. 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.