A domain name is an identification string that defines a group of computers on the internet under the same realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control. Technically, any name registered in DNS is a domain name, however, the term usually refers to a second and top level domain, such as ...
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Linking IP to a domain name
This is a really newbie question but I need to ask in order to solve a doubt.
My situation is the classical one: I bought a domain name and I want to link it to an IP address. The easiest thing in ...
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Domain name backordering services [closed]
I've read that SnapNames / Pool / Namejet / Godaddy have good backordering domain services.
Let's say that I want a domain already registered by name.com and considering the mentioned services... ...
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How to correctly set up network names on Mountain Lion?
I am from a Linux background with a fair amount of Windows knowledge too but I find myself in the curious position of having to look after someone's macbook air. I am totally new to OSX.
I would ...
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Connecting domain name to website deployed at cloud
I have a domain name lovedmusic.com. I have signed up for jelastic - a cloud web hosting service. Right now I m utilizing my trail period. I have created a environment with app id ...
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How to diagnose DNS problems after switching to Route 53
My domain was purchased with Enom and up until a few days ago I was using their DNS. I made the switch to Amazon Route 53 and set up all my records there. Every time I've tweaked the records I've ...
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When I type [domain.com], it is not working, but if I include [www.domain.com] it is working [closed]
I'm using Amazon Route 53 for my nameservers, how can I set it up so that it will work in both conditions? My domain name provider is namecheap.
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Virtual host not linking to correct website
I have the domain designer-school.com and I am using my httpd.conf file to connect to a folder on my server and display the site.
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/backend
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Join workstation to domain, short domain name or FQDN?
Bit of a sanity check required if you don't mind.
When joining a Windows 8 machine to the domain should we use the short domain name 'domain' or the FQDN domain.local?
I seem to recall that I have ...
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DNS zone file for subdomain, query returns host not found 5(REFUSED)
I'm trying to setup subdomains on my DNS server running Yadifa 1.0.2 on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit but can't get it to work.
in my yadifad.conf, my zone looks like this
<zone>
type ...
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In DNS check, what “different subnets” and “number of MX records” warnings mean?
In DNS check tools like intodns and dnsstuff, what are the following warnings means and how to avoid:
Different subnets : WARNING: Not all of your nameservers are in different subnets.
Number of MX ...
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making all subdomains use same document root with nginx
I have in the *.conf file for my domain the following:
server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.tld;
access_log /var/log/nginx/domain.tld.accesslog;
root /var/www/domain.tld;
index ...
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How to set the domain name on GNU/Linux?
Similarly to hostname that can be changed in different ways:
temporarily using the hostname command
permanently using /etc/hostname (or /etc/sysconfig/network or /etc/HOSTNAME, these files are used ...
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Active Directory Domain Names - Forest/Tree/Children
I've been doing some reading on suggested top-level-domains for AD and whatnot. I used to setup domains as company.local and that worked just fine, however, more people want to use their external ...
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Access Amazon Web Server via domain name?
I have set up my Amazon EC2 Web server where I host my website. However, I currently access it with the elastic IP.
What I have done so far:
I have created a hosted zone for mydomain.com and added ...
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What's the most effective way to block incoming HTTP/HTTPS requests from an old domain name?
A own a dedicated CentOS box that uses lighttpd to serve www.newdomain.com. However, the same IP used to host an old domain www.olddomain.com.
The box still gets requests for www.olddomain.com.
...
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Transfer DNS to resolve domain to my server
I have bought a domain name www.mydomain.com on Namecheap, and I have successfully managed to set up redirections to my personal server available at the IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX.
The problem is ...
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Why my domain was added to DNS blacklist? [closed]
I've got notification from my provider that one of my domains is added into one of DNS black lists... this domain is configured and pointint to windows azure cloud application, i'm using google apps ...
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Move name servers from current hosting to dedicated server [closed]
I have a hosting and registered domain with them. I want to move to dedicated server (Ubuntu, no cpanel). In hoster panel I have ability to change nameservers IPs. Here is the response from hosting ...
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DNS alias configuration at the local server level
I'm wondering if it's possible to alias one domain for another at the server configuration level in a similar way that you can alias a domain to an IP address in the /etc/hosts file.
This is on a ...
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Difference between DHCP options 'Domain-Name' and 'Domain-Search'
What is the difference between the two?
I had thought that domain-name would put the client on the specified domain (ie. If the domain-name was set to "foo.bar" the clients FQDN would be ...
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Mismatch in NS and glue records in the parent zone, where every NS is still auth
What happens with glue record inconsistency, where every single server that is listed as an NS server at the parent zone for the child zone, always answers records authoritatively regarding the child ...
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Apache Server Management
I have an apache server installed on Windows 7 .. I use it mainly for testing .. Now, I need to modify the settings of the apache to work as real servers. Below is the list I need to approach.
First: ...
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Azure hosted website gives 404 error when domain name is preceded by www
mydomain.com works fine.
www.mydomain.com gives 404 - File or directory not found.
I don't want people to use www.mydomain.com instead of mydomain.com, but I also don't want the 404 error in their ...
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Domain A record and www
I have a question about domain A records.
I have a VPS and I want to point my domain to its IP.
Now, do I have to add an entry into the A record for mydomain.com AND www.mydomain.com? Or will simply ...
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Pointing a domain name to a VPS
I just got a VPS. All the host gave me was an IP address to have the domain point to.
Lets say my domain is mydomain.com
So what I did was I removed the nameserver (not the NS records, but the ...
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icann and new gTLD domains [closed]
Does anyone knows when will be these new domains extensions available?
I would like to register now a TLD , but when it will be available for my web site?
Is here any approximative date?
Also is ...
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share a domain name beween php and mono
I've got a problem : I've got a dedicated server where I use three different domain names and php. Now, I've got a new website that I developped with asp.net. I installed mono, mod_mono and transfered ...
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I purchased my domain with namecheap, have hosting from nearlyfreespeech - how do I get my site up and running? [closed]
I bought my domain from namecheap a week or so ago. Today, I bought hosting from nearly free speech and have built my site. I've uploaded my site to the nearly free speech servers.
I can access my ...
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Heroku custom domain name
Hi I registered a domain name on "Europe Registry", it's a .eu domain name.
I tried to edit the DNS section of my account on Europe Registry and managed to establish a 301 permanent redirect to ...
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How can I handle a .org domain on my own nameserver without paying for unwanted services?
I have a dot org domain that I use to run a website. Until now, I had an account onto a hosting+domain provider. Recently I thought to run the website on my own webserver and to handle the domain on ...
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Domain name points to different IPs from different locations
I'm having this problem that seems odd to me. I have a domain name (www.arioo.com) which must point to the IP, 173.45.102.106. It's ok when I try to reach it from my local PC or every other network ...
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Is it OK to have a diferent hostname to fqdn?
I have a server with fqdn git.mydomain.com (this is in DNS) but I don't really want the machine to have git as its hostname. Right now I have the hostname in /etc/hostname set as (for example):
...
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I have a Google Apps account using a co.cc domain. Co.cc have shut down (and deleted all domains) and I caanot recieve email. What do? [closed]
I have a co.cc domain (it was a service that let you register a *.co.cc subdomain for your own use) that I linked with Google Apps. This was so I could have an email address like xxx@yyy.co.cc. Co.cc ...
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Website domain expired. Can i access it somehow? [closed]
I need to access a website whose domain apparently expired yesterday (i'm not the owner, and i can't really do much about it). It will probably be reopened any time soon, but meanwhile i would still ...
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How do I update my servers' domain name for Reverse DNS?
I'm updating my mail servers' rDNS and I think I have it all figured out except for one thing.
When I installed my OS (Debian Etch), the installer asked me to enter the "domain name".
Is the ...
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Linking domain name to subdirectory without displaying subdirectory name in address
I've got a domain name, blogdomain.com, which I've linked to otherdomain.com/blog using this .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?blogdomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ blog ...
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Redirect a specific hostname to another hostname
I'm trying to redirect from an old hostname to the new one. So far I've got
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo.company.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) ...
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Is it possible to use the same SSL certificate for http and ftp?
Using https://example.com, I wonder if it is possible to use its SSL certificate for ftps://example.com ? The used certificate is basic like (RapidSSL, PositiveSSL, etc ...)
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What's FQDN of a WORKGROUP pc?
What do I enter when asked for FQDN (fully qualified domain name), for a PC that's not in a domain but in a WORKGROUP instead?
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is it possible to setup internal (local area network) domain names
I was wondering if it possible to setup local area network domain names, so for instance if I asked for local-server.org, the dns server would automatically send me to 192.168.1.111 (it would "take ...
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name server versus domain name
I have a VPS running Centos 5.8 and Webmin. It came with 2 IP numbers.
I need to create a domain name and name servers.
My domain registrar needs a name server (eg: ns1.domain.com.) to created a ...
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Am I able to forward traffic from an external subdomain to a specific local host?
I apologise in advance if the question doesn't make sense, please let me know.
I've got a small LAN (~10 Virtual Servers) using Win Server 2008 as a DNS server. This is behind a smoothwall express ...
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How Apache name-based virtual host works with public IP address?
I am new to Apache web server. When we configure Apache web server, we have the options of setting name-based virtual host.
Based on my understanding, when a user type in a domain name ...
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How to test new nameserver before to make it live [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Testing nameserver configuration using it
I'm thinking to leave my hosting provider NS's for Route53 (amazon distributed nameserver) for several reasons (and since I ...
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Does purchasing a registered domain name extend the expiration date?
I recently purchased an existing domain name through the site name.com and after I made the payment, I realized that the domain expired about 10 days earlier. Is it legal/good practice to sell already ...
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Redirect email using DNS?
I own a custom domain, i.e myself.com.
I would like to make all email sent to me@myself.com to be delivered to myself@hotmail.com.
I do not want to use Google's Google Apps, or Microsoft's Live ...
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Pointing Domain Name to IP With Subdirectory
Specifically I am using Apache 2 and redirecting port 80 to a Tomcat installation. Within tomcat I can setup multiple applications and they are referenced as so:
http://11.111.111.1/Test1
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Setting up a DNS Server on a domain
I have a 2nd-level domain we'd like to use for mapping to our internal services on a linux server of ours. The domain is registered via 1&1, and I'd like to have the domain set up such that ...
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Heroku: www subdomain returns “no such app”
I recently set up my octopress blog at http://davidmjohnson.me. This domain works fine, but when I try http://www.davidmjohnson.me, I get a heroku "no such app" error. Why is the www not working? Do I ...
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Website for tracking all of the domain names I own [closed]
I've been using a spreadsheet to keep track of domain names. Is there a web service anywhere that maintains a domain name database and tracks all the domains we own? The most important feature is that ...
