[Plesk 11.5] Proper DNS Setup for Domains

[PTS21]

We have our nameservers set up through our registrar.

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ns1.serverdomain.com 184.***.***.1
ns3.serverdomain.com 184.***.***.2
ns3.serverdomain.com 184.***.***.3

I'm trying to figure out what the best practices are for setting up DNS for domains on our server with Plesk.

There are two types of situations we deal with:

1. Domains that have their DNS simply point their A record to our IP. In this situation we simply turn off DNS for the domain.

2. Domains that point to our nameservers and use our mail server. In this case, we use this template:

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184.***.***.1 / 24	PTR	clientdomain.com.
clientdomain.com.	NS	ns1.serverdomain.com.
clientdomain.com.	NS	ns2.serverdomain.com.
clientdomain.com.	NS	ns3.serverdomain.com.
clientdomain.com.	A	184.***.***.1
clientdomain.com.	MX (10)	mail.clientdomain.com.
ftp.clientdomain.com.	CNAME	clientdomain.com.
ipv4.clientdomain.com.	A	184.***.***.1
mail.clientdomain.com.	A	184.***.***.1
ns1.clientdomain.com.	A	184.***.***.1
ns2.clientdomain.com.	A	184.***.***.1
ns3.clientdomain.com.	A	184.***.***.1
webmail.clientdomain.com.	A	184.***.***.1
www.clientdomain.com.	CNAME	clientdomain.com.

Is this right? Do I even need some of those A records?

[prupert]

You will definitely want to remove the PTR record from the template.

[PTS21]

You will definitely want to remove the PTR record from the template.

Thanks, just read up on that. Not sure why Parallels would include it in their master template.

[faris]

Get rid of these from the template too:
ns1.clientdomain.com. A 184.***.***.1
ns2.clientdomain.com. A 184.***.***.1
ns3.clientdomain.com. A 184.***.***.1

But make sure you have A records for ns[1-3].serverdomain.com in the DNS records for serverdomain.com