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My local BIND configuration about the A record of authoritative nameserver does not take effect

I bought a domain name "hhexperi.xyz", and want to use my own server "ns1.hhexperi.xyz" as the authoritative nameserver of the domain. But after I configured the local BIND file, ...
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Size of top-level domain (TLD) servers? Especially .com? [closed]

Sorry if this is a silly question or if I'm asking in the wrong place. But I've been learning about DNS, and there's something that's bugging me about top-level domain (TLD) servers especially the ....
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Does a domain's Glue Records get transferred when I transfer the domain to another registrar?

I have a domain, call it DOMAIN.NET, which is an Internet service provider. DOMAIN.NET has Glue Records that I put in via the existing registrar, which enable the client domains like FOO.COM, BAR.COM, ...
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Force dig to resolve without using cache

I'm wondering if there is a way to query a DNS server and bypass caching (with dig). Often I change a zone on the DNS server and I want to check if it resolves correctly from my workstation. But since ...
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My own nameservers don't work without adding glue records, why?

I don't understand this. Everywhere I read that glue records are only required to prevent circular dependencies, for example I want to set ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com nameservers for the ...
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How are IP addresses actually assigned?

I'm having a hard time understanding how a governing body assigns IP addresses, companies use BGP to advertise those IPs, and how the internet works. Then, where the hell does DNS come in? Can ...
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When do I need an A-Record for an NS for a subdomain

I am trying to answer the following question: I have domain example.com with a subdomain: subdomain.example.com which is realized as an own zone. I also have NS1 for example.com and NS2 as ...
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How is it possible to contain DNS A records without NS records for a domain?

Today I saw a domain that contains DNS A record but no DNS NS records. How is it possible to create A record without NS Nameservers? Example domain is: frankstudios.com dig for A records: root@...
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freeipa on subdomain - can't resolve A records

I just installed an freeipa server (with an master replica) for our infrastructure. For the freeipa domain I used an subdomain (of our real domain) e.g. "internal.foobar.com", and made two A records ...
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Why does DNS return an FQDN with glue record instead of IP

When I send out a DNS request for my.example.net, my DNS recursive server goes to the DNS root zone (or gets some cached value instead). That nameserver says "go look at the .net nameservers", and ...
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Custom nameserver domain with CNAME [duplicate]

We have quite a couple of domains where the rightful owner is us, but the nameserver is managed by a third party (subcontractor), who doesn't allow us to change the zone files. Thus, we are moving to ...
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PowerDNS authoritative name server works but non-authoritative name server servfail

In my current role as Devops I have been assigned a few tasks that are new to me including setting up a PDNS server with MySQL backend. After initial setup of the server I tested responses from the ...
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NS record pointing to subdomain - would this work?

I've rented the domain example.com (including *.example.com) at Foobar Domains Inc.. I'd like to have my own nameserver ns1.example.com for example.com and *.example.com. I can provide an NS record ...
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Why do nameservers have their own names? [duplicate]

For example, lets say there is a hosting company, hostingcompany.com, with nameserver ns1.hostingcompany.com. When I type hostingcompany.com into my browser, my computer contacts a top level .com ...
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What happens if you have NS domains be resolved by their own NS servers? [duplicate]

Let me explain. For example, you have a site, site.com, and on the domain provider service, you decide you want to have your own nameservers, and enter the new addresses. You decide to let these ...

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