DNS stands for the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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Should I create zone for each domain that I want to host on my server
I'm setting up a web hosting on my VPS, I want to host several websites on my vps, I have two domains, domain1.com and domain2.com and a website for each hosted on iis, I know that I should add these ...
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Making iptables easier to maintain
My network is completely locked down except for a few sites which are whitelisted. This is all done through iptables, which looks something like this:
# Allow traffic to google.com
iptables -A ...
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Set static IP to a server behind the NAT [closed]
In my company, we just bought a server and now we want to set a static IP to it.
Well, I've contacted my ISP and they said that they can give me static IP. So far, so good.
My question is, where ...
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The dns-server isn’t responding [closed]
I’ve built my test network with three computers: Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows XP. Each computer has a fixed IP-address. There are no error messages on the Windows XP computer, ...
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Benefits of Internal DNS entries
Say I have a website www.example.com. The external DNS entry points visitors to 111.22.33.44 which in turn points to my internal web server 172.1.2.3. All internal visitors use an internal DNS entry ...
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Windows Server DNS DHCP and AD [closed]
Sorry I dont know where to ask this. This is not a fault.
I'm planning for test for MCSA and I need to ask some question as i'm unsure about these things.
Can you name 3 different types of DNS ...
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How are domain registrars able to include unlimited DNS and email forwarding? [closed]
DNS services on average cost $30/year for 600,000 queries per month. Email forwarding is about $30/year for 10,000 emails a month.
How can a registrar, whom I pay only $10/year for a domain, be able ...
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Outgoing mail through isp's smtp server is not getting delivered
What's the problem with the following emails?
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Diagnostic information for administrators:
Generating server: mailrelay002.isp.belgacom.be
secretariat@lagereschoolbissegem.be
[195.47.247.194]
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What are the drawback if I use 127.0.0.1 instead of 127.0.1.1 in my host file?
Ubuntu default host file is something like
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 myhostname
Will there be any drawback if I change to:
127.0.0.1 localhost myhostname
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Two apache servers using same port?
so I have two apache servers on the same system.
Basically what I'm trying to figure out is if since I have 2 different IPs running on my system is it possible to have two different apache servers ...
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can't install jenkins on centOS
I am trying to install jenkins on centOS but am having difficulties. When I start jenkins with:
$sudo service jenkins start
It returns ok and all my domains are up and running. But when I try to ...
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Client DHCP on Linux seems to not be updating Windows AD DNS
I have an odd DNS issue that only sometimes presents itself. I have several Linux machines, running Ubuntu (10.10, 11.10, 12.04). Most of the time they work flawlessly. Sometimes, however, the ...
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DNS not resolving on Virtualmin
I am having problems reaching my site hosted on a virtualmin virtual server. It is the only site I have hosted on the server right now (I am just learning my way around virtualmin and VPSs in general) ...
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creating a domain name for a specific subnet only
Virtual Machine has 2 NICS, installed are WWW/DNS server application in one.
Server is configured as 192.168.8.10; WWW can be accessed as http://192.168.8.10
I created a domain test.ab for my www ...
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mount afp:// on OS X Server ML with servername.private namespace? [closed]
The DNS is working well,
sudo changeip -checkhostname
says "nothing to change". The company's server is running for the first two months with a dynamic DNS-Server-Service setup and will change ...
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DNS Help for Small Business - Access Inside and Outside Network
In the process of setting up an internal server for the first time (Mac OSX 10.8) and trying to understand how to setup the DNS service and whether I even need to provide it myself.
Today we have a ...
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How do I change my DNS Zone record? [closed]
I would like to point the sub-domain analytics.xsitegroup.ca to 72.38.66.14:82
I am currently in the xsitegroup.ca's hosting control pannel's DNS Zone Editor, and here is the relevant line:
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procedure to move subdomain to different server
I plan on having a subdomain, let's call it foo.mysite.com, forwarding to my site www.mysite.com. This is just for testing purposes.
Eventually I want to change my foo.mysite.com to point to another ...
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Redirect all DNS queries to IP
I have a server with Ubuntu 12.04 Operating System on it.I want to make a DNS Server that accept all request including IPs,and redirect them to an specified IP......there users can login and after ...
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Our nameserver changed?
We have a domain and have zoho hosting our emails so our mx records point there. Now we signed up with ning and set up a CNAME record for that which works well, too.
The problem: Suddenly our MX ...
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DNS package path [duplicate]
I was trying to understand a bit more about DNS and there is a point I got stuck to.
One of the important point of a good DNS resolver is to be geographically close to you.
I am sure physical ...
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What's the importance of the email address in the DNS SOA lookup?
Is there a real importance in this, except to publish the email address of the person responsible for some DNS zone?
In our BIND configuration, we put a mailling list as the responsible for our ...
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Do I really need to configure my server with a public static IP address?
I'm setting a few sites up and many email accounts for a new company so I wanted to save some money as I already have a server running Windows Server 2008 R2.
I have a static IP of 80.229.46.115 and ...
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Name Servers not resolving
I just got myself an unmanaged Dedicated VPS from OVH and I don't have a prior experience of setting up servers or DNS servers but I followed a couple of tuts and installed webmin and created NS Zones ...
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Anyone know of a free dynamic DNS service that supports custom .com/.org domains? [closed]
I found freedns.afraid.org, but you have to pay if you don't want other people creating subdomains on your domain.
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Bulk BIND zones creation [closed]
How can I create zones for 50 domains on Ubuntu 12 VPS? I have webmin (which allows me to use BIND to create/ manage zones). I was able to figure out what gets created to add a zone successfully.
But ...
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Is it safe to add parent domain as additional zone within DNS?
Our internal Windows domain is ad.company.co.uk.
When we try to access mail.company.co.uk (for OWA or Outlook Anywhere, as an example), it resolves to the external IP address of the router and gets ...
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when use . after myhost.mydomain in config files?
I noticed sometimes '.' can be seen at the end of
myhost.mydomain
so it is
myhost.mydomain.
^^^
statement. Where should I use this '.' at the end?
Currently in etc/hosts I ...
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Configuring the domain for a server: hostname vs. subdomain / should the hostname be in DNS?
I'm inexperienced with server administration and in the process of learning how to properly assign a domain name to a server. I'm trying to figure out if I should enter the server's hostname into the ...
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Does a DNS server exists for android? [closed]
Is there a DNS server (named, bind) I could use to solve my problem ? Should I use other solution ?
I do not need all bunch of bind features, just setting A records and an easy mean to ...
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Migrating Exchange 2007 Users to Exchange 2013
In our company up until now, we've had an on-site Exchange 2007 installation. For the purposes of this question, we have 3 servers :
Exchange07MBX01 (Mailbox, Hub Transport)
Exchange07MBX02 (Client ...
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is there any way to determine the date a domain DNS record like MX record was published ?
We need a way to determine when exactly a DNS record such as MX was published for a domain. Does anyone have a clue?
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How is IP traced actually? [closed]
I was always wondering how IP trace works.
I mean there are so many IP addresses over the world and when I request xxx.yyy.zzz.www for example, how the network exactly finds the (best) connection ...
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DNS setup: CNAME vs wildcard for SaaS
So I'm new to actually caring about how DNS's actually work, as opposed to plugging stuff in and troubleshooting. I have an application that will display different information depending on what domain ...
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Is DNS flush needed on the clients when DNS alias is updated?
We have a DNS alias set up for an SQL database server.
We will be upgrading the SQL server to a new machine, and the machine name will be different.
DNS alias will be updated with the new name on the ...
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Retrieve all A records for a given domain name [duplicate]
Is it possible using dig or any other tool to get all DNS A records, specifically subdomains for a given domain?
Thanks.
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why dig to router is on DNS 53 port? [migrated]
192.168.1.1 is my router NetGear. It has 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 set as DNS.
from windows:
nslookup google.com 192.168.1.1 // works OK
from ubuntu:
me@ubuntu:/etc/mail# dig @192.168.1.1 google.com ...
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How to add a website to fdcservers?
Two days ago I purchased a dedicated server from fdcservers with CentOS and DirectAdmin installed, but can't figure out how to add a website to my host. I've been using the VPS plans of Knownhost and ...
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eventid 11156 registered with some errors
Got this error when I started my windows 2003 server
When I saw the event viewer I got message as "The system failed to register pointer (PTR) resource records for the network adapter....." with ...
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Setting up DNSMasq for internal DNS [duplicate]
What I have:
gateway->firewall->lan setup
I have installed DNSMasq on what I would like to become my internal DNS server.
I have added my desired host names to /etc/hosts
What I want:
Internal ...
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Dns registration validity [closed]
I am wondering if my dns config is good, i'm beginner in these.
Alse, how can i check syntax and effect before sending modification to gandi ?
* 300 IN A 168.63.121.119
imap 10800 IN CNAME ...
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Implementing SPF for a mail server that sends email on its own, with GoDaddy
I have some troubles configuring SPF/DKIM for a VPS with a running instance of Postfix. Thanks to DMARC reports I'm finding and fixing always more issues.
Today I have a problem by setting SPF ...
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DNS hosts, is my resdns registrations correct?
I was wonderng of my dns registration are correct, to redirect *.mydns.com and mydns.com on the ip.
* 300 IN A 168.63.121.119
forum 300 IN A 168.63.121.119
web 300 IN A 168.63.121.119
www 300 IN A ...
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Why does global propogation of DNS records differ widely? [closed]
I had been using DNSever for hosting zone records of my domains. Before that I was using the DNS servers of my domain registrars. I'd always noticed that global propogation of changed DNS records used ...
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Configuring Bind for serving as nameserver for multiple domains
I have installed bind9 on a Debian VPS, and use it as nameserver for one of my domains. It works well. dig reports correct entries.
I now wish to use this nameserver for four more domains, and am a ...
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How to setup DNS using zpanel
I am trying to use the DNS features of zpanel and the documentation seems sparse. I had some DNS entries setup on my VPS using WHM / cPanel before my server crashed and now I'm trying to move ...
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Resolving Domain Name to IP Bsased on Location
I am currently setting up two web servers for a client on Amazon AWS (EC2). Both are up, secure and functioning (one is in Singapore and one is in North America) and everything is great. However, as ...
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Lifting the forest domain outside of a tree domain
I had an existing forest/free/domain corp.mycompany.com and recently added another tree new.mycompany.com to the existing forest corp.mycompany.com. AD warned me about potential name resolution issues ...
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Google Public DNS is returning a SERVFAIL for my domain
Hope some one will help me in resolving the issue. My Domain name is "prohosterz.com"
Google Public DNS is returning a SERVFAIL for my domain:
$ dig prohosterz.com @8.8.8.8
; > DiG 9.9.2 > ...
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How can I evaluate the quality of the DNS Domain Name Servers of a provider?
I have domains purchased through Godaddy and the site hosted through Web.com.
I'm trying to decide whether which company's Name Servers to use.
It's simpler to use Godaddy's BUT they provide only ...
