Questions tagged [a-record]

An A record is a type of DNS record that maps a name to an IP address. For example, the A record for serverfault.com is 64.34.119.12

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Setting up custom domain for GCP load balancer

In this page I mentioned we need to point the A record to load balancer IP. My website domain.com already have landing page. I want to point api.domain.com to load balancer IP, but I can't set a ...
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Client DNS Records Not Updating Unless They Are Unsecure

I have 2 member servers on my domain that are getting an event 8018 which looks like this: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Client Date: 4/21/2016 10:57:23 AM Event ID: 8018 Task ...
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www and non-www domain pointing to different IPs despite DNS being correct? How to redirect www?

I'm having an issue where our non-www domain is currently pointing to the correct IP, but our www is pointing to a random IP address that belongs to our host. So when we visit the www domain, it does ...
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Site serves blank page after changing A record (godaddy forwarding to heroku app)

I have a domain from GoDaddy that I'm forwarding to a heroku app. I had it set up so that in my domain "settings", forwarding with masking was set up, forwarding to the heroku app URL. In my "A" ...
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Creating vanity nameservers without hosting DNS

We'd like to create our own vanity nameserver addresses to use with various domains that we host. Our hosting provider gives us two options: use their nameserver addresses, or setup our own ...
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DNS round-robin requests not distributed evenly

We have setup two DNS A records, where each points to a load balancer. nslookup ourdomain.com Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: ourdomain.com Address: 52....
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How to disable access to www.example.com, but make laptop.example.com active

My website's two major sections can be accessed using: www.example.com for general content laptop.example.com for more specific content The laptop section is ready and deployed. User can access it ...
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DNS: 'A' record not updating for subdomain

I recently moved my domain from GoDaddy to DigitalOcean and the DNS records updated successfully. Then a subdomain was created on DigitalOcean called cms.eminenceconstructionlv.com. The NS records ...
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Deleted wildcard 3 days ago still subdomains being resolved to other ip address

I setup A record with wild card entry as I wanted to use some feature of my other website but I delete it for some reason. Now its been 3 days it still points to my other website. Is it cache issue if ...
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Subdomain not pointing to IP despite correct A record

Let me explain. I have a domain name which is example.com and a subdomain drive.example.com example.com points to 203.0.113.55 -> no problem drive.example.com points to nothing according to DNS ...
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Moving IMAP mailbox from a Linux server to G Suite

I have my old mailbox, which was hosted by my hosting provider. I want to move it to a new one, like G Suite. To access my old email, I used imap.mydomain.com server. I now moved my site to a new ...
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A record for root domain, CNAME for www

Good Day! Would just like to ask if this can be done. Doing a CloudFlare partial CNAME setup for a website (Since we cannot go the normal route and change the nameservers to CloudFlare's) problem is ...
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Using personal website instead of Google Sites

I am maintaining a website for an organization, and the website setup I inherited is incredibly confusing. Recently, the organization decided to migrate their site from Google Sites to a normal web ...
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NS server updated, but A record pulled from old nameserver

I use Amazon AWS Route 53 as both my DNS and Nameserver. I want to use Wix as my name server. I've updated my NS record on AWS Route to point to the Wix name server. It's been 72 hours, and I think ...
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Pointing www to one place, but keep subdomain here

First of all, sorry for the awful wording in the title. I will try to explain what I actually need and hopefully someone here will know if it's possible or no. Basically I want to point my domain-name....
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Issue getting DNS wild card A Record (*) working

I have a sub domain named subdomain under main domain named maindomain. Inside subdomain i have wild card (*) A Record that maps to a particular IP Address. This works fine and when i say ping test1....
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How to set up a Gatekeeper hosting setup that serves pages if they exist, but defaults to another server if it doesn't exist?

I'm building a gatekeeper app that lets the owner of MyClientsSite.com show a modified page that I'm hosting on MySite.com, but visitors to MyClientsSite.com can't know that the modified page is ...
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DHCP and DNS on none AD 2003 Server PTR is updating but no A records

I have a strange issue, I have a DHCP and DNS server running in a non AD environment, on Windows 2003 server. I setup DHCP to update DNS A and PTR records even if the client doesnt request it, but I ...
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DNS A records Disappearing

So, the situation is as follows. Our production servers are the most important servers being affected but this is happening randomly. I can not build a pattern for servers that are being affected to ...
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Pointing sub-domain on Google domains to Wordpress running on Digital Ocean?

I want a sub-domain on my google domains to point to blog.mydomain.example. Currently, it points to DNS at the root domain to Github pages. I want that to remain the same, but the blog subdomain to ...
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How to setup DNS to connect 2 servers with 1 Domain?

I have 2 Servers: Server 1 IPs: 45.35.56.194 45.35.56.195 Server 2 IPs: 173.254.214.217 173.254.214.218 Each server has different clients, therefore, Server 1 client has nothing to do with Server ...
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Subdomain resolving to 2 different IP addresses (one unknown)

I have a domain registered with Fasthosts (animesoc.co.uk). I've recently hosted a forum on an external server (with IP address 51.254.128.170), and pointed the subdomain http://forums.animesoc.co.uk/ ...
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A-Record to point to hosting vs. changing DNS while keeping the mail externally

I currently am dealing with a client whose e-mail is hosted on Google. We are just in the process of taking over their domain, but their current hosting company suggests a different set up than I do ...
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Point my Domain to another Domain's sub-domain

I am developing an application which process is like below: User do registration System will create a sub-domain as the username registered. i.e : xyz.abc.com User will build his webpage under this ...
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Apache2 Virtual Hosts Guide for Subdomains

I am trying to set up a subdomain that serves a different website that what my main domain name serves. I am using Debian Stretch. www.domain.name > my website application.domain.name > ...
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