Questions tagged [dns-hosting]
DNS hosting service is the service than runs DNS servers.
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Azure DNS or the built in Office 365 DNS Service
We're currently using a 3rd party DNS provider and the included Office 365 DNS Service. But we would like to consolidate this.
And since we are using Azure and Office 365 one of the two should be it.
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Is it possible to point an IP address to a domain name?
Normally you point a domain name to an IP address(A record), but I want to do the opposite.
There's a firm that needs to call my API at www.example.com but the firm
says it can't call a domain name, ...
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Moving a DNS server to a new IP address
i have a dns server on windows 2008 x64 and i want to change its ip address.
If i keeping the DNS server name (typically "ns#.domain.com") and just moving it to a new IP address, what time it takes ...
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Redirecting a particular email via dns?
Is there any way to setup an MX record or similar so that a particular email address on the domain forwards on to another, rather then doing it at the cpanel or app (outlook, gmail) end?
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How I know which ns is firstly connected to my domain in multiple dns setup
My domain xyz.com is configured with 5 different ns in domain registrar control pannel.
such as
ns1.no-ip1.com
ns2.no-ip2.com
ns0.xyz.com
ns3.no-ip3.com
ns4.no-ip4.com
All ns are binded with same ...
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Can I find out whether my DNS provider honor my TTL settting?
Is there any way to determine if my DNS provider actually use the TTL setting I provide?
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DNS Failure - domain control panel only accepts url as dns
I've got serious problem with configuring the dns on my domain and I'm stuck with it!
I recently purchased a dedicted server for a domain i have that is rafsanjani.ir and i want to host it on my ...
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Where should I host dedicated nameservers?
Because I need to make constant additions or updates to my zone records, I decided I'll host my own nameservers. What server specs would you recommend for a dedicated nameserver? I can't imagine ...
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Setting up DNS for self-hosted ACME DNS server
I'm probably just being dense about this, but I am trying to set up an ACME DNS server on my local network (publicly accessible) to handle the DNS-01 challenges required to automate the renewal/...
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What was the reason for dns validation?
I got a certificate from AWS and did dns validation in the process of https communication. But I'm not sure why you are doing that verification. To use the domain, I got a domain from a hosting ...
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How Top Level Domain DNS server is aware of the IP address of the domain’s nameserver
I try to understand DNS recursion.
Assumed I have deployed a local DNS on my machine using bind.
I defined the zone file a A record for server1.example.com.
I also defined as NS record in the zone ...
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Is it a feature for the DNS service to support redirects? [closed]
I have a client who has an old domain and their new branded domain. They want to redirect the old domain to their new branded domain. Since they are using AWS Route 53, I thought this would be a good ...
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Can domain have no IP adress (A record) assigned and can subdomains exist?
I have a dedicated server running on subdomain. I want to configure subdomains as DNS. Basically, I use example.com as my main company domain.
I will, probably have more than one dedicated server and ...
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etc/hosts entry is ignored by my amazon EC2 Ubunut instant
I want to add an entry for a website name to be redireected to another website. So I added the entry in the etc/hosts file. For example, let Google's IP is 1.2.3.4 and I want to example.com to be ...
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Redirecting my existing NS records to Cloudflare NS
I run a domain parking service, let's call it domainparking.tld and users set their domain's NS to point to:
ns1.domainparking.tld
ns2.domainparking.tld
now the problem is ... few of these domains ...
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DNS Service and Web Service, on the same server [duplicate]
I'd like to set up a DNS service on the same server that I use to host a domain's websites. I understand that this is not recommended, but there are a number of external factors prompting me to do ...
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Non-authoratative zone for local DNS?
A company I work for has a local DNS server that answers requests for their domain, foo.com, internally.
Externally, we serve DNS for foo.com with Route 53.
The problem we have is that we have to ...
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Use one $INCLUDE for the SOA record for several zone files / Bad Practice?
So, we're self hosting our DNS forward and reverse zones, and are using our upstream - ISP as slaves.
Now, we've got a bunch of zones that have an identical SOA record.
I want to use an $INCLUDE for ...
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GoDaddy domain (randomly) not resolving to GitHub Pages
I have added a CNAME file to the root level of my GitHub Pages repository, which contains my domain (_____.com).
My DNS settings on the GoDaddy website look like this: DNS Settings. On the "Manage ...
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Masking CNAME/A Record Requirements from Clients
I'm reselling hosting services to non-technical clients.
With regards to associating domains/IPs, the host I'm reselling requires that once a VPS is deployed i then go to the domain's registrar and ...
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DNS Nameserver Error
Sorry I am new to this DNS jargon so the following question might sound obvious.
I have a VPS server and I am using third party dns server for managing DNS. My DNS provider had given me his own name ...
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Cname record to dns server
I have a nameserver of my hoster called ns1.hoster.com. I would like users of my (hosted) application to use my branded nameserver called ns1.mybrand.com.
ns1.mybrand.com points to ns1.hoster.com (...
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Lion DNS Server: How to redirect queries to remote dns server?
I want to set up our Mac OS X Lion DNS server to host a specific domain internally, but redirect all other queries to our providers dns servers. How can I achieve this? I have read the docs but couldn'...
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Can someone explain to me exactly why it's bad to use NS name that is a subdomain for the domain that NS is for
Reading a book and it states that you should not register
nameserver names such as ns1.example.com for the domain
example.com as you'll create a catch-22 situation when looking up ns1.example.com etc.
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Multiple free dns services redundant as name servers of a website?
Are there problems with setting up multiple DNS hosting services as name servers for a website?
Budget is an issue so I was thinking about setting up two free DNS hosting services as name servers for ...
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Looking for smart DNS hosting [closed]
I am looking for DNS hosting that can detect my web server failure and switch to another A record automatically. Also, they should support baisc DNS admin stuff. My domain is currently hosted on name....
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Need help movig DNS providers (ZoneEdit to DynDNS)
I have a domain name and I use GoDaddy as my registar. My DNS provider is ZoneEdit. I'm staying with GoDaddy as my registrar, for now, but I want to switch DNS providers to DnynDNS. I already ...
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FreeDNS Subdomain Hijack
Recently, I found out that someone add subdomain without my company permission. My primary domain using freedns.affraid.org service as its domain tools. I've already set that status : Invisible so ...
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domain.com: Redirect domain while preserving the path issue
I have a domain (first-domain.com) bought with domain.com with no server setup. I want to redirect this domain to another (second-domain.com) while conserving the path.
Example 1: 'first-domain.com/...
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Can I use my letsencrypt wildcard cert on BOTH my webserver and DoH server?
I use letsencrypt wildcard certificate on www.mydomain.com and it works all fine.
Since it is a wildcard, I can validate SSL on *.mydomain.com.
Now I have a recursive resolver running unbound that I ...
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Dual DNS Issue - Internal & External
I'm in a fix here in offering a softphone solution for a company to allow users work from home.
CURRENT SCENARIO:
The company has an existing internal Windows DNS "ABCcompany.com" and ...
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How does DNS host like NameCheap secure and prevent anyone from creating an A record with your IP / domain name? [closed]
The only way I can think of is it surely checks the WHOIS record from the registrar to confirm the IP matches the domain name, but I can't find anything written about it.
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How to move domain to new host?
I am very new to working with domains. Yesterday I set up a domain for my company. I used the service strato.de. Now I've read VERY bad customer reviews of this service and am afraid that I made a ...
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Site not resolving uniformly
My site www.acurent.com is not resolving to its IP address 23.20.46.124 uniformly
Check on: https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/acurent.com, it shows that its resolving for certain networks only. If you ...
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Is it possible to have the root domain on one web hosting and a sub-domain on another?
I have a shared web-hosting with CompanyA and another shared hosting with CompanyB. I own one domain called example.com. I want to host example.com on CompanyA and sub.example.com on CompanyB. Is this ...
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Have sub-domain point to different firebase project than base domain
I am trying to get my project domain mypage.com to be hosted at and point to a firebase project A, and also have a sub domain, admin.mypage.com, point to and be hosted at firebase project B.
I have my ...
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DNS is only partially working after changing the provider
My website is ecoguardfilters.com.
I bought a domain from GoDaddy and hosting is with Hostinger.
I changed the nameserver to Hostinger, but it is still not fully propagated, after two weeks.
What ...
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DNS Resolution Process when only part of the Authoritative DNS Servers (Name Servers) for a specfic Domain are reachable from the Internet
I would like to ask for some clarification on the following situation / Scenario.
Let's assume I have a Domain, whose DNS A Records are registered by means of 2 Pairs (4 in total) of Name Servers; ...
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Glue Records, A Records, and NS Records
I have set up my name server and set the glue records. It's working.
However, I'm not sure if I have everything properly to spec. For example, I currently have a glue record set for ns1.mydomain....
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DNS caching - iterative vs recursive
In an iterative DNS architecture , local DNS servers have caches and can mostly skip contacting root and TLD servers.
In a recursive schema, the local DNS server contacts one DNS server which ...
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Windows DNS Local and Internet domain
We have our company domain hosted on the internet, call it mycompany.com
We have all our DNS records hosted on the internet for this. However, what we want is for one hostname to have a different ...
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Email hosted by one company and HTML pages by another?
I own MyDomain.com, which I bought via Godaddy. Just today I bought some shared host with smarterasp.net so that I can host some simple webpages there.
In other words, when someone goes to MyDomain....
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Hosting my own DNS server for my domain, force IP resolution based off visitor's IP address
This is specifically for my domain, the users/visitors will not use my dns server at all. Is this even possible?
I need to setup a dns server that I can host my domain on, that when requested will ...
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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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DNS lookup to localhost gives network error
I am running a recursive DNS server on Unbound in a jail on FreeBSD with pf as a firewall.
Running drill @xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx example.com (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the servers IP) on my local machine ...
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Point subdomain to different host but maintain vanity URL
I am creating a single page of an existing website for a client but they have requested that I host it on my own account and they can "point to it" from their host. They want to keep their URL in the ...
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Why use obscure nameservers? [closed]
I have noticed that most nameservers for "The Big Guys" use strange domains. Why don't they use their primary domain for nameservers like NSX.register.com or NSX.godaddy.com or NSX.dreamhost.com ?
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Why does this name server resolve incorrectly?
Why does this ENom name server resolve incorrectly? Earthlink is related to my ISP.
$ nslookup yahoo.com dns1.name-services.com
Server: dns1.name-services.com
Address: 98.124.192.1
Name: yahoo....
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Single Shared Host, Single IP, Multiple Domains, Multiple Websites... (with and without SSL)
While my post may look similar to others, it concerns shared accounts
at a web hosting provider all utilizing the same IP address (rather than
different IP addresses). Here comes what I would like to ...
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BIND DNS Domain change issues for domain entry
On BIND, I have an entry for a domain that is pointing to an old server and IP. This machine doesn't exist any more. When I make the change to point to the new server, the nslookup is still showing ...
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