Plesk Linux – create a manual DNS zone file

Not recommended – but if you have to then it works and this is how you do it:

(eg: you could host some dns entries for a domain that doesn’t exist in plesk)

add this code to the /etc/named.conf file:

zone "yoursitename.com" {
 type master;
 file "yoursitename.com";
 allow-transfer {
 12.34.56.78;
 common-allow-transfer;
 };
};

create a new file called /var/named/run-root/var/yoursitename.com that contains this code:

; *** This file is generated by me! ***
$TTL 86400

@ IN SOA yourserverhostname.com. youremailname.youremailhost.com. (
 1304486437 ; Serial
 10800 ; Refresh
 3600 ; Retry
 604800 ; Expire
 10800 ) ; Minimum

yoursitename.com. IN NS ns1.somethingvalid.com.
yoursitename.com. IN NS ns2.somethingvalid.com.
yoursitename.com. IN A 12.34.56.78
www.yoursitename.com. IN CNAME yoursitename.com.
yoursitename.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx -all"

then restart bind, like

sudo service bind9 restart