[BlueOnyx:13030] Re: Deleting site lost some standard DNS entries

[Jim Matysek]

On 5/16/2013 7:28 PM, Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>> I don't recall ever having added any DNS entries for these addresses - I
>> thought they came with the standard BX install (5106R). How can I
>> restore these entries?
> Under "Site Management" and "Edit Virtual Site Template" you can set up
> some defaults and features for newly created sites. Including "Automatic
> DNS management". Which by default is turned on.
>
> It can be turned on and off individually on a per site basis. If it is
> enabled, then some basic DNS records will be created automatically.
>
> But this also means: If that site is deleted and automatic DNS
> management is turned on for that site, those records will get deleted as
> well.
>

The problem is that I had two sites - www.site.com and test.site.com. 
These were independent sites not created using the BX subdomain 
features, as they were originally created years ago under BlueQuartz or 
even Raq4 and then just migrated to new servers. When I deleted the 
test.site.com site, it removed useful DNS records for the www.site.com 
site. Since I'm not creating a new site now, how can I re-create those 
records? Are the ftp.site.com, mail.site.com and smtp.site.com records 
just A records that I can create in the DNS tool in the GUI? I don't 
remember them showing up in the GUI in the past.

As an aside, you may want to put that on the "to do" list to not delete 
these other records if any other *.site.com site exists on the server 
when you delete another foo.site.com site.

-- 
Jim