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Google Cloud DNS vs. Google Domains DNS [closed]

I run a smallish website on Google App Engine. Currently, I use Dreamhost for other things and I buy my domains through them and they provide the name servers. I'm in the process of switching domain ...
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Is Setting up backup DNS only for A Record possible?

So we Have a server on AWS for our website and we use another provider for our e-mails. We have a backup policy in place where we have at least 3 places with all the data from our main server one of ...
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Domain name is opening the website but its IP address shows nginx Not found

My domain name is www.blissedmaths.com. Its IP is 159.89.162.44. while opening through blissedmaths.com, it opens. But IP address not working. Due to that, I am unable to access my droplet via WinSCP (...
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How to find if there is ....in-addr.arpa delegated?

I have a pool of IP addresses, but reverse DNS does not works. It works if lookup on namserver but does not work on Internet. I requested registrar to delegate this pool to ns1.example.com. I added ...
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How to connect to a Remote Windows Server via internet without using Static IP?

How to connect to a Remote Windows Server via internet without using Static IP? I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 and i want to make it accessible to my customers so they can work on my server through ...
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When I type in the domain i bought from Godaddy it resolves to my wordpress from EC2 but it then switches to the Elastic IP for that EC2 instance?

Image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fvi7X.jpg I created an elastic IP so the public IP would be fixed. I then attached the A type with @ name in Godaddy and the 4 servers for custom nameservers as you ...
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Inconsistent glue for name server

I'm getting the error "Inconsistent glue for name server" for our domain webhost.pro on the third name server. Not sure why, the third name server resolves correctly and has the correct DNS details. ...
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Can an NS Record Point To Multiple A Records?

Quick question. Can an NS record point to multiple A records? For example, lets say I have a zone subdomain.example.com and an NS record for it pointing to nsmatrix.example.com. Could I then have ...
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Force redirect to url with captive portal or dnsmasq

We are trying to host a static webpage (just one index.php) on a local wifi network without internet access. Essentially every user (mobile devices) should land on some landing page where he can ...
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DNS: How to find out which software a remote DNS server is running

Situation I know the IP address of a DNS server running in the same network on a machine which I can't maintain. Question How can find out more about which software that DNS server uses? Thanks for ...
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DNS registration, basedomain and CNAME records not wanting MX records broken [duplicate]

Good day, I currently have an existing domain for a large company. We are using a service to manage our DNS. We had an existing domain with many subdomains, with a legacy website. Recently we ...
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Website not being found for certain users. Possible A Record issue?

Over the last month my website https://www.storehouseno9.com has sporadically not been found by various users trying to get to my site. I've only experienced this issue once or twice, but it's a ...
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bind9: how to query external nameservers in local zone config

I have configured a zone in my bind9 installation. Its supposed to be a public nameserver which I am managing through a python script for dyndns subdomains. But my main website is hosted by 3rd party ...
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DNS does not Resolve via Internal Domain Controller

When I want to create a new DNS name e.g. foo.example.com, I add it to Amazon AWS's Route 53, so it becomes available on the internet. However, when navigating to the address from inside my companies ...
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setting up DNS using CloudFlare

I've got a few domains I'm forwarding to a single server using CloudFlare. They're all basically set up the same, the only difference is the domain names. In my CloudFlare DNS page they look like ...
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Multiple DNS to single IP [duplicate]

I want to have 2 DNS pointing to single IP on different ports. Please let me known if it possible. DNS 1 - abc.mydomain.com DNS 2 - xyz.mydomain.com What could be possible solution here. Can nginx ...
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Google Cloud DNS and DNSSEC?

Since Google Cloud DNS does not currently support the record types for DNSSEC, is there any way to begin implementation of DNSSEC using TXT records? If I were using Google Cloud DNS, which I am, and ...
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Matching domain structure on staging server on LAN?

When we develop websites on the staging server (CentOS) on the LAN, we end up storing it in something like: /var/www/html/project1.com And to access it through a web browser on the LAN: http://...
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Does a catch all DNS record is a good practice to reduce queries?

We have a domain with Route 53 as a DNS provider. We have many queries to records that don't exist anymore. I thought it will be a good idea to set a catch all record with high TTL, for example: *....
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autodiscover security warning

Unfortunately i am no expert in the field of DNS, exchange and stuff so i am struggling with a problem. So please forgive me if it is obvious for someone else. I tried to research myself but i just ...
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Website redirect and DNS entry for website hosted on Windows Server 2008 R2

We have web application that is hosted on on premise Windows Server 2008 R2. We were previously accessing it via http://xx.xx.xx.xx/WebApp Just few days ago, we bought a SSL certificate issued to (...
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Is pointing DNS to Domain Controller required for GPOs to work?

Let me preface this by saying that I'm by no means a trained sysadmin but rather, shall we say, learning on the go. Apologies if the answer to my questions is obvious but I couldn't find an exact ...
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How many DNS Servers must I have? [duplicate]

I am trying to build my own DNS. I have one server which I would like to use as DNS server. Why, according to RFC2182 section 5 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2182#section-5) I must have TWO ...
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nslookup with and without http points to different ips

I recently changed my registrar and transferred my DNS from Route 53 to Godaddy. Now, I cannot reach my website from any web browser. nslookup and ping gives me correct ip if i do this. nslookup >...
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Setup Unbound DNS for both caching/local usage and website ns

I want to use Unbound as caching and as my ns1.domain.com nameserver with DNSSEC. I came across Unbind which looks quite easy to setup and use. unbound-control local_data "mywebsite.com A 11.22.3.44"...
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dns not resolving remote domain when local zone file exist

after I have done million researchs, I still no sure if this right or wrong. Please allow me to ask.. I have Bind DNS setup on Linux, and Resolver setup to listen localhost first then others. I have ...
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Is there any way to tell the TTL on root name server DNS records?

I am currently migrating a DNS zone from one DNS server provider to another. I am trying to estimate how long it will take for the change to propagate, and to understand what the delay might be if I ...
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Registering nameservers with network solutions / Verisign

I've been asking alot of questions about setting up public nameservers lately. I think I've finally got the servers setup so I went to network solutions (my registrar) to point my domain name to my ...
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Server 2016, DNS only responds when requested over private IP Address

I'm trying to setup a public DNS server in Azure IaaS. I have successfully created the server, installed DNS and configured my authoritative zones. I have configured endpoints for both TCP and UDP ...
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PfSense Authorative Name Server of a subdomain

I have PfSense running currently with DNS and DHCP but I recently purchased a domain name and now I would like to have PfSense be a name server for a sub-domain but internal only. Currently host names ...
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Can dnsmasq return a NOERROR for a AAAA request on a synth domain?

I have an instance of dnsmasq running that is utilizing the synth-domain option. It's working great for A queries, however, it returns an NXDOMIN for a AAAA query. Here's an example of how to ...
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Why do website host handles dns to resolve services(mail.domain.com ftp etc) instead of the domain registry? [duplicate]

I have bought a new hosting service, and needed to change the name servers pointing to the new host for my website. When I did , all other subdomains especially ftp, mail subdomain and mx record broke....
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Configuring Bind 9 for multiple domain

Hi I am a newbees with Bind I want to hoste multiple domain on the same name server. I'm not sure about my config can you help me ! here's I supposed the public address of the name server is 10.10.10....
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Is it possible to assign a hostname as a slave's master in BIND?

I would like to set up a master and a slave BIND nameserver, where the master is hidden and currently on a dynamic IP. I set up a dynamic DNS service on a separate domain for it. So far the ...
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How can I point to a name server in a residential network? [closed]

I am trying to run my own name servers for my domain. Currently the machines on my network are statically set to prioritize my local DNS, which works fine locally. However, I'm confused about how to ...
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dnsmasq as authoritative DNS server with synth domain

I have a fair amount of DNS experience, however, I've never setup my own DNS server (I've always used 3rd parties); this is my first time trying to run my own DNS service. My desired setup: ...
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Active Directory + CNAME

I have active directory set up for foo.example.com I have an apache server behind an AWS ELB at awselb.amazon.example.com I want my internal users to have access to all active directory resources at ...
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How do I protect random people pointing their domain to my server?

I just found out that flashsale.info is pointing to my server. How do I stop this from happening? Is there anything I can do?
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Advantages of external DNS hosting

I have hired a web hosting service from a Finnish provider (Xetnet), with whom I have also registered my domain (dospt.org). This provider offers an optional "external DNS hosting" service for around ...
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How to set a type DNS? [closed]

I have a dedicated hosting and I am trying to set the dns on the server side to an a type dns. Lets say my domain is: myDomain.com and I have already pointed it at the registery to ns1.myDomain.com ...
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Moving DNS to a new provider; their servers don't respond but they say it's OK?

Currently I have a domain and rent a dedicated server for it. It runs a windows port of BIND (installed by/maintained by Plesk) and provides DNS relevant to my domain I'm looking to wind down that ...
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Switched hosting providers, self-hosted authoritative, messed up MX record

Newbie alert, I'm in a bind but I'm not super familiar with MX record issues. We used to host our site with a custom hosting provider and recently switched to S3. We have our own authoritative DNS ...
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DNS server not resolving mail server host name

I have two name servers setup with bind. website, example.com, pings and displays fine so I know the dns record for it is ok. But, browsing to mail.example.com and pinging mail.example.com is a fail ...
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How does hosting company know my domain name?

The questions below are to help me understand the process; so your input will be greatly appreciated. Here is a hypothetical scenario: I buy a domain for a domain selling company, A. Question 1: At ...
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Name server IP is changing automatically during the day

I have 2 ns records (NS1 and NS2) that point to server1 (IP 1.1.1.1) I am currently migrating server1 and i have changed my NS2 record to point to server2 (IP:2.2.2.2). So now i have NS1 pointing to ...
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DNS Named.service isc_stdio_open 'data/named.run' failed: permission denied

Hi guys I have problems with starting systemctl named.service I was trying to install bind & configure everything to make a public domain name work but I ran in this problem. systemctl status ...
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How to control the redirection of a request, once a host changes a DNS server

I'm sorry if this question is too broad, but I'm not sure where to get started. Basically what I'm trying to accomplish is this: a) I am trying to set up my own private nameservers (say n1.example....
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Multi-view DNS giving internal answers to external queries

I have a multi-view DNS configuration in BIND9, and I'm seeing really odd things. I've split my 4 zones between 2 views: acl internals { 192.168.88.0/24; localhost; }; view "internal" { ...
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Why is my new nameserver receiving queries for domains that haven't yet registered it?

I've been running ns1.acmehosting.com and ns2.acmehosting.com for several years as authoritative nameservers for several hundred domains. I've recently added ns3.acmehosting.com, hosted in another ...
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Creating A Records for Localhost

What's the best practice when creating A records that point to localhost? Is it considered taboo or are there some valid cases where it's permissible? I have a dozen domains where I setup "local." ...

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