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Root domain redirect, otherwise A record redirect
I would like to redirect every incoming request via A record to another server (url-shortening service) unless the root is requested.... Is this possible? If so, how? If not, why not?
A simple ...
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creating subdomain entry(ies) — should I add a CNAME record pointing to @ or create a new A record?
Is it better to have a fewer A records and dozens of CNAME records or vice verca?
One (or few) A records per unique IP and many CNAME records per A record:
@ 3600 IN A 123.123.123.123
a ...
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Domain mapping via hostname instead of IP
Is it possible to configure DNS such that:
anysubdomain.clientsite.com has CNAME record to abc.ourservice.com
abc.ourservice.com has A record to our dedicated IP (so that if we change servers in the ...
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Upgrading Zerigo DNS plan through Heroku failure
I'm hosting an app on Heroku and have a basic DNS plan with Zerigo. I tried to upgrade the Zerigo plan from "basic" to "tier 1" through the Heroku command line tool and received the following error:
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How to point a domain to another address without access to add CNAME zone
Ive bought some domains from a hosting service and i want to point them to my other server. I did so usually by adding a DNS zone of type CNAME to list of DNS es which is set in my domain ...
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How does pointing a CNAME on my domain to a service-provider's server enable them to offer customized services?
I'm trying to understand how web services which have you setup CNAME records on your domain pointing to their servers work.
For example, following the instructions on LaunchRock ...
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Elastic Load Balancing using a chain of domains/hosts
I've setup an elastic load balancer on EC2 which (for example) has the public DNS (A Record) of:
LB-165746761.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
I've then registered a domain which I want to act as my ...
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Google Apps is routing mail unexpectedly
This has been going on for two days now and it's really bugging me.
I've owned a domain name for a few years now. Let's call it example.com. I've had Google Apps free edition set up there for a few ...
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DNS issue with migration of web site to new server
I have a legacy system that I'm attempting to make a significant configuration change to, but am not seeing a way to do so cleanly.
The state I inherited consists of a web site hosted on two app ...
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How do I disable Sendmail expansion of CNAMEs for a particular domain but not globally?
I have an issue due to "split DNS vision" where email is generated at a host and sent via a smarthost (relay) to an external system out of my control (business partner).
The generating server has ...
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Large scale custom domain support for a hosted web service
I am running a hosted platform for publishing Markdown documents. Currently I offer a subdomain per user, but the number one request right now is custom domains.
My server stack is NGINX and uWSGI ...
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Microsoft DNS Server (Windows 2008) CNAME issue
I am using the DNS role in Windows Server 2008 R2. I have my records set up correctly with the following CNAMEs:
{removed domain names for security}
Currently, only the 'wsp' cname works. All the ...
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Subdomains for MX using CNAMEs
Let's say I've got a wildcard subdomain CNAME for root domain:
*.domain.com CNAME domain.com
domain.com A 130.71.45.31
This works well for websites, e.g. subdomain.domain.com.
Now let's say I have ...
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nginx www.domain.com vs domain.com virtualhost
I have an http block where I include virtual hosts for the different domains hosted on the same server. For each virtual host I do:
listen domain.com:80;
Now, domain2.com works fine. However, when ...
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How to set up the CNAME in DNS zone record to work with Unbounce
I'm trying to run split testing on some landing pages I "designed" with Unbounce, but it requires that I set the CNAME record for my domain/sub-domain and I'm having trouble figuring out what is the ...
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Can CNAMEs be used to point to Name Servers?
Here's what I need:
www. and root of domain are hosted on the old host
beta. is hosted by the new host
Here is the problem:
Old Host does not allow ANY editing of DNS Records on their Name ...
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How to configure S3 or DNS to handle incomplete name (sans www) for web site?
I have a set up a bucket called "www.mydomainname.com" to host my website and I have configured the CNAME such that "www.mydomainname.com" points to the my endopint ...
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Are username subdomains needed for white label cname applications?
I'm having a SaaS site developed and will be offering white label service with some memberships. During user registration I will be asking users to enter a 'username' which will be used for a ...
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CNAME : how to setup DNS to return A record based on website?
I have a query regarding setting up servers.
Suppose I have multiple websites to host.
foo.com
bar.com
hello.com
I may or may not to have specific servers for them. Suppose an arbitrary ...
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Can I have a CNAME and an A-record for the same domain name?
I have a dedicated domain mydomain.com and I have a Windows Azure service that has to send email from addresses @mydomain.com. I found a mail service that agrees to send email "on behalf" of my ...
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DNS, Domain name settings for ASP Host
I have an account at an ASP hosting company and the URI is: me.example-host-company.com
I'd like to my own domain name so I create a CNAME record for a subdomain which has its destination set to the ...
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How to create a CNAME a DNS name at the level abc.xyz.mydomain.com (sub-sub-domain) if my DNS host only supports xyz.mydomain.com (sub-domain)?
I need to create the CNAME record:
abc.xyz.mydomain.com = verify.azure.com
but my DNS provider (www.freeparking.com) only allows me to create it at the sub-domain level (i.e. xyz.mydomain.com). I ...
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Can I use a CNAME to point to a 3rd Parties NS Servers?
I am in the process of migrating hosting providers.
Currently I have significant number of domains pointed at my current NS servers.
My new provider has their own NS server that I will need to update ...
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Default CNAME when DNS quering
I have a domain, with a number of CNAME records to
www.mydomain.com
mail.mydomain.com
ftp.mydomain.com
Now, what I would like to achieve is that if any other subdomain is queried or the domain ...
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Netfilter/iptables - Accept connections from an DNS CNAME
So I'm trying to accept connections on port 80 only from those IPs whose reverse DNS has a CNAME alias like, for example, *.test.mydomain.com:
1.1.1.1 resolves to boo.foo.com
and
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Elastic Load Balancer + Domain setup
How do I assign the ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) to my domain. Do I need to do it for the main domain (ie. domain.com) or sub domain (www.domain.com). My registrar is godaddy - how I do it? - What's ...
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Cname and Amazon S3 failure
I had a quick question. If you set up a cname for your amazon bucket and lets say your main amazon s3 bucket goes down, does cname you created serve files, in other words, do your files get redirected ...
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DNS CNAMEs — Is the client actually redirected or not?
I believe this is a simple question, I thank you in advance for clearing it up for me.
Using this example:
foo.domain.com CNAME bar.example.com
bar.example.com A 192.168.1.19
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Incoming CNAME and CPanel
I'm doing some research into setting up a Saas app like SquareSpace where a user can point their domain name e.g. example.com to example.myapp.com using a CNAME record.
I'm using a CPanel/WHM managed ...
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Can you use a CNAME to Whitelabel DNS?
Can I create the following CNAMEs with "mydomain.com" to effectively whitelabel "mydnsprovider.com"'s nameservers?
ns1.mydomain.com CNAME --> ns1.mydnsprovider.com
ns2.mydomain.com CNAME --> ...
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SSL and CNAMEs?
I have a question. We are using a CNAME on our server to direct to an application we host on another server. Which server would I install the SSL certificate on for that cloud application? We would ...
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SMTP, use CNAME or real name as server address?
Problem description:
I'm managing a corporate Email server for nlscan.com serving xxx@nlscan.com. However, for historical reason, we still support xxx@mail.nlscan.com. That is, foo@nlscan.com and ...
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DNS Redirect my domain to correct Public_HTML folder
I have a folder called "Public_HTML" on the root of my server (ip: 50.63.60.70).
I'm not sure whether it's done by adding a DNS record or not. But anyway how do I redirect my domain to this folder?
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How do you configure a naked domain without access to DNS?
I registered a domain with registro.br. It's a Brazilian domain, and they do things differently.
Usually, I would register a domain and the registrar would provide me with a panel to configure ...
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is a CNAME to CNAME chain allowed
Is it allowed in DNS to have a CNAME record that points to another CNAME record?
The reason we need this is that we have a hostname that we want to be looked up to the IP address of our web server ...
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TeamSpeak Redirect via CName &| SRV Record? [closed]
I have a TeamSpeak server that is hosted on a GameServers account under the domain ts4.gameservers.com with a port number of 9102. I have setup a CName that redirects ts.valhallashalls.com to ...
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Subdomain and CNAME
I have a website foo.com and now I have setup a sub-domain sub.foo.com. I can open foo.com and its fine but when I try to open or ping sub.foo.com its not happening. I cant even FTP into sub.foo.com. ...
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Given a hostname, how do you find all its aliases (i.e. CNAME records) WITHOUT direct DNS file access? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Querying DNS for CNAMEs for a server
I have an interesting problem, given a FQDN, how do you find all its alias names WITHOUT having access to the DNS files or being ...
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Does creating a new CNAME replace the old?
I have a CNAME record:
cdn.example.com. IN CNAME examp.vo.llnwd.net
which was registered through Limelight. Do I need to go back to Limelight release this record? Or if I just generate a new ...
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Unable to access cname or a record
I have a DNS server setup on VM #1 that has CNAMEs and A Records. My VMs on Machine 2 are able to access shared files on Machine 1 but not via CNAME or A Record. My real Machine 2 can access ...
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Separate MX and Nameserver values
A domain name is registered with GoDaddy and then nameservers point to my Hostgator account.
Inside the Hostgator account I would like to point the website itself to ns1/ns.linode.com and also set ...
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CNAME resolution failure from a Windows 2008 DNS server
We have an issue resolving the alias record samresources.scholastic.com from our internal Windows 2008 DNS servers that are using hints - the result is non-existent domain (NXDOMAIN). It looks up ...
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Setup CNAME for subdomain issue
I would setup for this:
user go to test.example_site1.org
test.example_org1.org it's a CNAME of test.example_org2.org
user will see the page of test.example_org2.org
On the example_org2.org server ...
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How do I add a subdomain entry for my instance in the Amazon Web Services?
I have an instance running and I need to point the "elastic ip" to my domain name (www.mydomain.com), I also want to add rsc.mydomain.com, 1.mydomain.com, 2.mydomain.com
How can I do that? Is it in ...
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How can I get Visual Studio to deploy to SSRS named with CNAME instead of A record?
We have SSRS (SQL Server Report Service) running on an Amazon EC2 instance.
It had been named report.foo.com using an A record. Recently we changed it to a CNAME referencing the EC2 public DNS name. ...
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iis - cname - start page when using domain and content using www.domain
I configured a domain on IIS 7.5 with windows 2008 r2 and put an index.html file on the inetpub/wwwroot/domain folder.
When I browse the webpage currently I´m receiving two different pages:
using ...
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Can I use CNAME to send to a directory on another server, or only the root page?
Let's say my main site is www.mySite.com . The path is:
/home/itsme/public_html/
I want to set up a staging server at staging.mySite.com which redirects to:
/home/itsme/public_html/staging
Can ...
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Load Balancing in Amazon EC2 DNS,CNAME etc
I have a portal on amazon ec2. Which Many domains and also cname's point to this server elastic IP.
Like aaa.com, bbb.com, ccc.com, *.abc.com.
now I want to take to behind load balancer.
The main ...
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Load Balancing in Amazon EC2 with multiple CNAME
My portal have multiple cname record, all point to same server.
Like aaa.com, bbb.com and alson *.abc.com.
I need this url in my web application to give proper content.
Now I want move Amazon Load ...
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postfix (2.7.4) does not trust cert
Have valid multi-domain cert (Go Daddy) for:
mail.domain.tld
hostname.domain.tld
mail is a CNAME for hostname.
postfix-2.7.4 (Gentoo) does not trust the cert.
Jul 11 14:36:51 mta1 ...
