For those running their own nameservers ONLY!

If your like us, you are probably just about as fed up as us, seeing LAME SERVER appearing in your /var/log/messages file on a daily basis. I get hundreds of these message cluttering my logs daily so here is what you can do to remove their existance.

First, lame server as defined:

If you run a nameserver, you may see an error about a “lame server”. New administrators of DNS servers often ask what this is, what it means, and whether it’s a problem. There is no cause for concern. The lame server is one that is advertised to have authoritative information about a domain, but doesn’t. This can happen in a few different ways, but it’s usually not worth the trouble to track down the administrator of the other domain.

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Howto Remove The Logging of Lame-Server

Howto Backup and Restore a Plesk Domain From The Command Line

This HOWTO shows how to use the Plesk command line utilties to backup and restore a single domain. This can be useful, among other reasons, as a way to move a site between servers (though now they have the Migration Manager for that) or as a way to make a final backup of a domain before removing it (though to be safe you should make other backups and have regular periodic backups as well).
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Howto Backup and Restore a Plesk Domain

Howto Setup SSL Certificates for Mail Services (pop3s, imaps, smtps) on Plesk / Courier-Imap / Qmail

This howto will show you how to setup an SSL certificate on a Plesk server so that it will be used when people connect through secure pop, smtp and imap.

To do the following, you need a certificate. It can be self signed or CA signed. Using a self-signed cert will of course result in some browser warnings for those who have not added the certificate as locally trusted on their computer.
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Howto Setup SSL Certificates for Mail Services