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57 questions linked to/from Why can't a CNAME record be used at the apex (aka root) of a domain?
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DNS/Domain not working [duplicate]
I have domain, pointed to my VPS. I made VH in apache to serve simple index.htm file to check if everything works fine.
Unfortunatelly something is wrong because page is not found(http://zoofi.me).
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How do you set an A record for any shared host?
I'm trying to use an A record to redirect my domain to a separate domain that I own. This process has worked fine with DigitalOcean Droplets -- I just add their IPv4 address in the A record and the ...
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What are practical outcomes of adding a CNAME record to an apex? What breaks?
There's this canonical question, but it essentially comes down to "it's not allowed by the RFCs." I don't think that's helpful. What I'd like to know is what exactly breaks and how?
Let's ...
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Setup split DNS to external CNAME when resolving within an internal CoreDNS?
I have an internally hosted DNS resolver via Core DNS running on my network. Everything is great aside from one thing, which is I cannot load my apex domain when connected over VPN. The reasoning is ...
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Nginx won't serve for anything but www.myserver.org
According to the nginx documentation, the server block below should work for both https://joycegroup.org and https://www.joycegroup.org
server {
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/certs/...
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How to create a custom nameservers for my domain and my clients can use it to point their domain
I know this is a general question but I tried a lot of solutions without any success.
What I want to do is to create a custom nameserver like ns1.example.com/ns2.example.com
I tried bind9 but I always ...
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Verifying my email provider seems to have broken my web site
I read that it would be desirable to "verify" my email provider (zoho), so according to their instructions I added the following records to my DNS (CNAME code altered slightly):
CNAME ...
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Replacing A record on apex domain to cname
We have our current corporate website hosted on traditional servers that we point to with an ip address. Our website is available at example.com and www.example.com and both domains have A records ...
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What's the use case of SVCB (type 65 , service binding) RR
I am getting lot of SVCB (type 65) queries from my clients. On further digging , i figure out that few clients (like apple iOS 14) uses this RR heavily.
sample query of SVCB (type 65) is as follows -
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How to enable HTTPS for my marketplace
I'm building a marketplace platform that enables many merchants to sell to their customers. At the moment I serve stores on my own domain like so https://storeA.mydomain.com or https://storeB.mydomain....
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What happens if i have both A record and CNAME record on my domain
Let's suppose i have a domain which DNS contains 2 records:
a "A" record which contains an IP Address
a "CNAME" record which contains another domain (alias). Let's suppose this ...
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Redirect apex domain to www with Route53 and CloudFront
I'm trying to setup redirect from the apex domain example.com to www.example.com with route53, cloudfront and s3.
I've seen many tutorials online and discussions here on the topic, but nothing has ...
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Redirect apex domain HTTPS requests without manually provisioning a certificate
I'm trying to host a static website on Azure storage with a custom domain and HTTPS.
I have created a storage account, uploaded my files, and enabled static site hosting. The site works nicely from ...
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Why does CNAME for a root domain conflict with most other records? [duplicate]
As far as I understand, a CNAME record is served to retrieve only the A record of its destination. E.g.:
www.example.com CNAME domain.com
Here the DNS resolver will search for the A record (IP ...
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DNS only accepts www nothing else [duplicate]
My domain is with GoDaddy and im aware they have an issue with CNAME entries including @.
IS there a way i can resolve this issue?
What im trying to achieve is having the domain CNAME entries point ...
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