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freeipa on subdomain - can't resolve A records

I just installed an freeipa server (with an master replica) for our infrastructure. For the freeipa domain I used an subdomain (of our real domain) e.g. "internal.foobar.com", and made two A records ...
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NS record pointing to subdomain - would this work?

I've rented the domain example.com (including *.example.com) at Foobar Domains Inc.. I'd like to have my own nameserver ns1.example.com for example.com and *.example.com. I can provide an NS record ...
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Create nameservers in Ubuntu server to host domains [closed]

I have a domain(from IndiaLinks) and a VPS server(from OVH with an IP). Consider the domain as mysite.com. Before purchasing this vps, I used to host it with shared hosting by adding the given ...
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NS record in bind9 zone file

I met a strange scenario today. Normally when we setup a bind9 zone record, we put the NS record same as our ORIGIN. However today I found one working bind9 setup in the production site which has ...
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Do i have to write NS entries in every zone file using bind9?

example zone file (domain1.com): @ IN NS dns1.domain.com. @ IN NS dns2.domain.com. dns1 IN A **.**.178.93 dns2 IN A **.**.178.93 Do i have to declare IN NS in every domain zone file using bind9? It ...
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PowerDNS authoritative name server works but non-authoritative name server servfail

In my current role as Devops I have been assigned a few tasks that are new to me including setting up a PDNS server with MySQL backend. After initial setup of the server I tested responses from the ...
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How to include a file in a zone file (using $INCLUDE directive) in nsd name server

I want to include a file in the zone file in a nsd name server implementation, using the $INCLUDE directive. When I reload the zone with the nsd-control reload <zone> command, in the log ...
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How does BIND work? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is a glue record? I just can't understand how a server running BIND at the same place(or IP) that my website is running is going to provide the DNS records to everybody ...
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A little confused on Creating Your own NameServer and DNS [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is a glue record? My registrar refused to provide DNS service anymore. It only allows me to add my own NameServers like: ns1.myexample.com, ns2.myexample.com I have ...
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Custom nameserver domain with CNAME [duplicate]

We have quite a couple of domains where the rightful owner is us, but the nameserver is managed by a third party (subcontractor), who doesn't allow us to change the zone files. Thus, we are moving to ...
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How to specify a DNS Slave server, that is on a different domain, in the appropriate zone file on the master naming server?

I am unsure if my question makes sense, but I am working on configuring a DNS Master/Slave setup. We currently have two domains. For privacy purposes, I will use "example" as my domain, we have ...
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Subdomain DNS appears to be resolving from different nameservers than main domain

I have an inexplicable issue with DNS for a domain and a subdomain. I first noticed that doing an A record lookup on the subdomain is returning different results than what is in the DNS config. Then I ...
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DNS resolves self domain [duplicate]

I have a couple of domains (abc.com, def.com, ... , xyz.com) and I have a dns server (ns1.example.com, ns2.example.com). All my domains use ns1 and ns2 dot example dot com as their name servers. ...
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How are Authoritative Name Servers' IPs resolved [duplicate]

I realized I don't understand a pretty basic thing about DNS. So, here's the flow Assuming nothing is cached, When I open stackoverflow.com, the request goes to the root, then to the .com TLD ...
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How does a domain host itself authoritatively? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is a glue record? Suppose that I want to have custom nameservers that authoritatively host mydomain.com: ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com. They would need to be ...
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