Questions tagged [dns-zone]
"A DNS zone is a portion of a domain name space using the Domain Name System (DNS) for which administrative responsibility has been delegated." (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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Clarification of why DNS zone files require NS records
This question was originally asked here:
Why do DNS zone files require NS records?
To summarise:
"When I go to my registrar and purchase example.com , I will tell my registrar that my nameservers are ...
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How can I manage all of my domains with minimal configuration?
This is a Canonical Question about DNS server administration.
I have one hundred or so domains. All of these domains need to be configured identically, but it seems like a huge waste of time to have ...
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Can someone using the same DNS server as me hijack my domains?
When I register a new domain, I send it to my hosting provider by assigning it its domain name servers in the registar's settings. For example, with Digital Ocean, I input the following:
ns1....
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Do I need a separate SSL certificate for a DNS redirect?
I am implementing a multi-tenant application where my application hosts and serves technical documentation for a tenant's product.
Now, the approach that I was considering was - I host the ...
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DNS referral / delegation: which DNS is responsible; How to delegate the right way?
Introduction
I bought the domain earechnung.at with Hetzner and am using my webspace at All-Inkl. I want to use the nameservers of my webhost (All-Inkl).
Zonefiles and Nameservers
As I registered ...
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Insecure Connection: issue on www redirect to non-www with https
I am not much familiar with server configurations, please help me on this issue:
I have a Debian8 server and a SSL certificate, the SSL certificate only for My non-www domain so I would like to ...
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NS list does not match list from parent zone
I'm attempting to figure out an error message that I got from dnsstuff.com when examining my DNS records. The error reads as follows.
NS list does not match list from parent zone. This should be ...
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How to append a domain to a PTR resolution?
I have a bind9 server authoritative for my domain example.com. Forward resolution works, PTRs as well up to a point.
I currently have
254.10.10 IN PTR srv.
in my PTR zone for 10.x, which ...
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Should engineering have its own DNS zone, delegate, or subdomain?
We have our organization's primary domain (with AD) example.com. In the past, previous admins have created several other zones - such as dmn.com, lab.example.com, dmn-geo.com etc - as well as ...
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Does a multi-level hostname makes a practical difference?
The A record for hello.world.example.com can be registered
as the hello entry in the domain world.example.com
or as the hello.world entry in the domain example.com
Is there a practical difference, ...
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No SOA record -- what are the implications?
I was investigating a bunch of spam domains, and none of them have an SOA record. I have never seen this before -- I didn't even know it was possible.
How can DNS work without an SOA record? If it ...
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How do I change reverse DNS on Google Cloud Compute?
How do I change reverse DNS on Google Cloud Compute?
I want to add reverse DNS to Google Cloud Compute and can't figure out howto do it.
I want to map 11.97.196.104.bc.googleusercontent.com to ns1....
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DNS errors after changing nameservers for Cloudflare
I don't know if this is the right place for my question, but I have a problem with my DNS/nameservers after changing the nameservers. I'm not sure if it is a problem at my side or at my webhost.
I ...
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What RFC encourages DNS servers to reply REFUSED to queries for unknown domains?
This question is very very similar to RFC that requires DNS servers to respond to unknown domain requests but I figured I ought to ask it as a new question.
It appears that it is standard practice for ...
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Why do I need to escape ; with \ in a DNS DKIM record?
I'm setting up Email Authentication on our domain to allow authentication with our Email Service Provider.
My understanding is that the DNS record needs to have any ; escaped, e.g., \;
I just want ...
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Global zones visible in all views
I have a BIND 9 server running, currently serving several domains. For one of these domains I would like to differentiate the answers depending of the asking IP address.
I know this can be done by ...
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no current owner name error when running named-checkzone on both forward and reverse
I'm trying to learn dns and bind on centos 7 at digital ocean. When I run named-checkzone I get the same errors. When I change around the white space I stop that error only to replace it with a 0 SOA ...
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Managing zone files
We host our very own DNS server (BIND) for various reasons, including the fact that we deploy and kill machines very often and that we sometimes need to load balance via DNS very quickly.
However, ...
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BIND/DNS - dig +trace = Bad Referral and Bad Horizontal Referral
I have an interesting problem. I started noticing that when I do a dig +trace against one of the domains we are authoritative for, we get errors from our nameservers for "Bad Referral" and you can see ...
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BIND SERVFAIL after upgrade to Debian Jessie
I've done absolutely nothing to my BIND configuration, but looks like Debian Jessie upgrade has broke it. Maybe some new options got introduced to it, or the old things now work differently, but I ...
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How to tell ISC DHCP correct zone for reverse zone DDNS update?
I've got an ISC DHCP server running (version 4.2.5) which is configured to dynamically update the reverse zone on a DNS service with the hostname it receives via a dhcp DISCOVER package.
It all works ...
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Nameservers are not resolving to IP for a domain
I am running CentOS7 with CWP on Digital Ocean droplet. The server is currently hosting two domains, and I added third domain on 26th April. I did it with normal steps, like:
point domain to my ...
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BIND Zone Transfer with two views
I have a simple lab/testing Master/Slave configuration (showed below) and I would like to transfer both views to the slave.
Unfortunately after the zone transfer both views in slave have records from ...
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How do I remove a DS record from my parent zone using Amazon Route 53?
My website is currently inaccessible due to the presence of a DS record in the parent zone, when I am using nameservers that don't support DNSSEC. See this question for more context.
I am using ...
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Is it possible to split a domain using dns Bind9
I have a domain (example.com) that the hosts are split in several different networks/places. Most of these hosts are hosted in our office. What i am trying to do is configure a zone that resolves ...
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What is the DNS lookup sequence if both CNAME and A record exist?
If we set an A record and a CNAME record for the same sub-domain, how is the DNS lookup done?
For example,
A record:
example.com => xx.xx.xx.xx
www.example.com => xx.xx.xx.xx
CNAME record:
www....
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What do values in SOA record affect?
I am complete newbie in DNS world and I am moving our office subnet to another domain. Our DNS is using PowerDNS solution with MySQL backend.
I am unsure whether the SOA record for our domain is ...
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Bind9 not responding to outside dns queries while port 53 is open
I have setup a bind9 dns server on virtualmin and created dns zone for following domain with following nameservers.
domain = thecrystalsms.com
Name Server
ns5.crystalhost.net
ns6.crystalhost.net
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External DNS to manage Domain // Ways to test the own external DNS server
i have several domains at Strato. I want set up my own external DNS to manage my domains.
To do this at Strato I used the option "Domainverwaltung: NS-Records ändern". I had to provide 2 Nameservers ...
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Powershell Get-DnsServerResourceRecord seemingly returning all name servers in every zone, not just for the one specified
I have to check and then potentially update up to 400 zone nameserver records.
I thought I could turn to Powershell to do this in far less time, and eliminate any mistakes that would no doubt happen ...
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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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Internal DNS Setup [Bind9] , unable to dig from another machine, but able to dig locally
I have a local network with 3 machines, each one of them is able to ping the others.
I have setup a DNS server using bind9 in one of those machines, and asigned the ftp.rp.iesdomain to one of its ip.
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Migrating zone file from registrar to DNS provider
I own a domain, managed by my "registrar". I also have a VPS, managed by my "hoster" (e.g. DigitalOcean, etc.)
I want to use the hoster's DNS services, so:
I must change the NS records (in the ...
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My website address redirects to '/mail' automatically after mail server installation
I followed this instruction to setup a mail server on my VPS: https://www.linuxbabe.com/mail-server/centos-8-iredmail-email-server
After installation completed successfully, when I try my website ...
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Read DNS Zones from database
I've developed an application with Laravel (it's same as a site builder), clients can add their information to their profile, and finally, they can park a domain to the profile (by setting my DNS for ...
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What happens when two DNS zones intersect on the same server?
I have a DNS zone of example.com with a record of type A defined for foo.example.com. On that same server, I have another zone named foo.example.com with and no A record defined at the top of the zone....
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sub-subdomain records for public hosted zone in AWS not working
I have added public hosted zone foo.mydomian.io in Route 53 and got my DNS provider to add name-servers for the sub-domain, however any records I create for mapping instances be it Type - A or CNAME ...
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Multiple nameservers for multiple dedicated servers on a single domain
The first dedicated server I setup two custom nameserver at registrar to server 1 ips and set the whole domain to those two namservers. (lets just say my domain is server.com)
ns1.server.com
ns2....
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