Your Hosting as a Slave DNS Server

If you host websites on your account and have a standalone DNS server acting as a primary (master) name server for your sites, you may want to set up the DNS server to function as a secondary (slave) name server.

To make the DNS server act as a secondary name server:

  1. Go to Websites & Domains and click the domain name whose DNS settings you want to manage.
  2. Click DNS Settings.
  3. Click Master/Slave to switch DNS server mode.
  4. Click Add Record.
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1. Specify the IP address of the primary (master) DNS server.

2. Click OK, and then click Update.

3. Repeat steps from 2 to 6 for each website that needs to have a secondary name server on your server.

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To make the DNS server act as a primary back:

  1. Go to Websites & Domains and click the domain name whose DNS settings you want to manage.
  2. Click DNS Settings.
  3. Click Master/Slave to switch DNS server mode.
Your Hosting as a Slave DNS Server

The original resource records for the zone will be restored.

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