Questions tagged [amazon-route53]
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
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Multiple TXT fields for same subdomain
I would like to understand if multiple TXT records for the same subdomain are ok or could lead to issues. In particular, we have the requirement for one SPF record and one Google Domain Verification ...
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Route 53 doesn't allow adding DKIM keys because length is too long
Here is how I enter the value for DKIM key:
"v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAwztXzIUqic95qSESmnqX U5v4W4ENbciFWyBkymsmmSNOhLlEtzp/mnyhf50ApwCTGLK9U7goo/ijX/wr5roy ...
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Tried to create 2 record set type=TXT in Route53
I'm trying to add a second TXT record to a domain, but I get the following error:
Tried to create resource record set type='TXT but it already exists
Can I add two records at the same domain?
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Why does AWS recommend against public S3 buckets?
"We highly recommend that you never grant any kind of public access to your S3 bucket."
I have set a very granular public policy (s3:GetObject) for one bucket that I use to host a website. Route53 ...
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Redirect non-www requests to www on Amazon Route 53
I want to redirect all requests from example.com to www.example.com.
Preferably, this should happen at DNS level. I tried using PTR records, but that simply fails, returning a 404.
wwww.example.com ...
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Can different AWS accounts manage different subdomains?
I have two AWS accounts. The master account with example.com as a Hosted Zone, this then has a number of record sets (i.e. api.example.com and kibana.example.com).
A second account will be managing ...
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How do I redirect www to non-www in Route53?
I host my site at domain.com.
My DNS entries in Route53 are as follows:
domain.com A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 300
domain.com NS stuff.awsdns-47.org 172800
domain.com SOA ...
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Should I append a dot (.) at the end of my DNS urls?
I've noticed that AWS's DNS service (Route53) appends a dot (.) at the end of every DNS URL:
ns-xxx.awsdns-yy.co.uk.
ns-xxx.awsdns-yy.net.
ns-xxx.awsdns-yy.org.
ns-xxx.awsdns-yy.com.
Question: Is ...
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How to export a hosted zone in AWS Route 53?
I see no option to export a backup of the settings for a domain.
Maybe I should save the results of public DNS with dig but I would question whether a friend knows a better way.
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"SOA Serial Number Format is Invalid" warning by mxtoolbox.com - why?
When testing the SOA setting for example-domain.org on http://mxtoolbox.com/, it says that
SOA Serial Number Format is Invalid
The entry is
ns-885.awsdns-46.net. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 ...
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How long does it take for a Route 53 CNAME to work?
I have set up a CNAME in Amazon's Route 53 to point to another server.
This is a new CNAME for a new subdomain pointing to an existing domain name.
With other DNS providers that I've worked with, new ...
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What is the difference between Anycast and GeoDNS / GeoIP wrt HA?
Based on the Wikipedia description of Anycast, it includes both the distribution of a domain-name-to-many-IP-mapping across many DNS servers as well as replying to clients with the most geographically ...
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Aws vpc default route table in CloudFormation
Am I missing something but is there no way to add a route via CloudFormation to the default route table that comes provisioned with a VPC?
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No targets available when trying to set alias target from Route 53 to S3
I'm trying to setup a simple Amazon AWS S3 based website, as explained here.
I've setup the S3 bucket (simples3websitetest.com), gave it the (hopefully) right permissions:
{
"Version": "2012-10-...
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How do I determine the ARN of my Amazon route53-hosted zone?
I've got some machines which automatically update DNS in Route53. So far there are only two zones in Route53, and both of them are updated this way, so I have an IAM policy which says "blah blah blah, ...
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EC2/Route53: How do I assign my new domain name to an instance?
I have an EC2 instance. It's up and running with an Amazon IP that looks something like this: //ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com/
I am sure it works fine.
I bought a domain and then set ...
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How do I set an MX record in Route53 for a GoDaddy domain?
Can't seem to find an answer to this question on AWS' forum, not in the Route53 manual, nor on Stackoverflow/Serverfault in a way that makes sense...and GoDaddy's support sure as heck ain't got an ...
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Amazon Route 53, restrict IAM user access to single record set
I would like to programmatically change the CNAME of a Record Set inside an Hosted Zone on Amazon Route 53, but I would like to restrict the access of the user ONLY to that record set. For what I have ...
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What is an Amazon Route53 "Alias" DNS record?
AWS Route53 Alias value
Consider a domain registered on AWS Route53. HTTP requests to this domain should be served from a AWS CloudFront CDN distribution. In order to achieve this, an alias A record ...
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How to config Amazon Route53 working without www in sub-domain
edit: Amazon now supports this. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/root-domain-website-hosting-for-amazon-s3.html
I have my domain config in Route53 at Amazon AWS
exec ping command in my domain ...
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Access Amazon S3 Static Website Through IPv6
I host a static website on Amazon S3 with DNS hosted on Amazon Route 53. I'd like my site to be accessible via IPv4 and IPv6 (because it's about time).
When I use the Route 53 AWS Management Console ...
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How do you create a zone apex alias that points to a Elastic Load Balancer in the Route 53 GUI?
I created aliases for my domain name's zone apex using the ELB CLI as described in Elastic Load Balancing Developer Guide. I also added a AAAA record using the --rr-type AAAA flag, which is not ...
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Wildcard Subdomain (*.example.com) with Amazon Route53 DNS and S3
I am hosting a static website using Amazon Route53 for DNS and S3 for html files.
It is working fine.
Current Setup is:
example.com. A ALIAS s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com.
www.example.com. ...
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set Google Apps SPF record in Amazon AWS Route 53
I'm using the new AWS GUI for Route 53 to setup my domain records. However, the AWS console won't accept the recommended Google Apps SPF record, v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all (found here).
It ...
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AWS CloudFormation returning "Invalid request" when trying to create a AWS::Route53::RecordSet
I'm at a loss on this one.
99% of the time CloudFormation is pretty good at giving you some kind of debug message you can work with, but "Invalid request" has left me stumped, especially when the ...
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Godaddy vs. Route53 for DNS [closed]
I have my website set up as an EC2 instance and my DNS is currently Godaddy. I'm considering switching to Amazon AWS Route53 for DNS.
The one thing I noticed however is that Route53 charges monthly ...
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Similarities and Differences between CNAME record and Route 53 ALIAS record
Can somebody point out the similarities and differences between the normal CNAME record and Amazon's Route 53 ALIAS record. ?
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AWS Route 53 Pricing [closed]
I have set up a Tomcat Server on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Load Balancer. I also have a domain name registered with 1&1, e.g. www.example.com.
I would like to point the domain name at the Elastic ...
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DNS A record ALIASES, and ANAME record differences
We have a number of groups of servers on AWS that use trios of servers to serve out sites. Each server, or set of servers is within a different availability region, one of which is a redirection ...
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My domain on AWS Route 53 wont propagate
Hi have created a record set for the domain:
lazycatthemes.com
on Route 53 (domain was purchased through route 53) and gave it the 4 NS settings that Route 53 told me to configure:
ns-368.awsdns-46....
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HTTPS redirect from a naked domain (example.com) to a full domain 'www.example.com' without an error?
I'm trying to Redirect non-www requests to www on Amazon Route 53.
I made an S3 bucket with the name of the naked domain and configure the bucket properties to redirect from example.com to www....
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Setting up CloudFlare with Route 53?
I'm trying to get CloudFlare to sit in front of Route 53. I have my main web server on an ELB (which doesn't have an IP address). CloudFlare needs an IP for an A record, so how can I accomplish this?
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How to boot EC2 with preset hostname?
With Digital Ocean, I'm able to set a fully qualified domain name before starting it and I sorely miss this feature with AWS EC2.
Currently I manually go into a newly started Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ...
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Route 53 - Should I duplicate my SPF records as TXT records?
Amazon Route 53 supports both "SPF Records" and "TXT Records". Most documentation I read tells me to list my SPF Record as a TXT Record. I understand that the SPF Record is a newer standard. Is it ...
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How to address an EC2 instance from both inside and outside datacenter?
I'm trying to find a good way of being able to address my EC2 database instance from both inside and outside of the datacenter. Other EC2 instances need to be able to call into it, and other clients ...
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AWS Solution for wildcard subdomains (with SSL)
Is there a solution within AWS for implementing a wildcard subdomain (with Route 53). where any subdomain ex1.example.com, ex2.example.com or whatever.example.com can all point to the same server? ...
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AWS Route 53 CNAME - dot at end of target value or not?
My hosted zone at AWS seem to be working fine so I am a little nervous about changing it -- but I noticed that my CNAME record for my white-label DNS looks like this right now (no trailing dot):
*....
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Can AWS block access from embargoed countries?
My company blocks US-embargoed countries from accessing several e-commerce sites that we manage. I have to investigate whether we can move our current blocking solution to AWS as well. If AWS does not ...
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Elastic IP vs EC2 Public Hostname + Route53
We are evaluating to use Elastic IP on all of our ec2 instances, and we compare to the use of public EC2 hostname and Route53 (with a very short TTL to the public EC2 hostname & dynamic update DNS ...
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Deleted then recreated Route 53 hosted zones, now website not working
I have two AWS accounts old and new. The domain is purchased from the old account and the site is hosted in the new one. I was planning to delete the old and so requested for domain transfer to AWS ...
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How do I Delegate a subdomain to Route53
I have a domain hosted on my own linode under bind9 I also have a VPC in AWS and I want to maintain a DNS subdomain under Route53. I tried following the instructions at: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/...
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Using Route53 to point apex/root domain to Heroku application
This is something that I've seen discussed in some other places, but this issue in particular hasn't been spelled out exactly as not being possible.
I want to point an apex domain to a heroku app (...
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How does Route53 give priority to wildcard subdomains?
I currently have the following subdomains on my Route53:
website.com => elb1
dashboard.website.com => elb1
staging.website.com => elb2
cdn.website.com => cloudfront
I'd like to add a wildcard ...
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Cloudflare + AWS route 53 combined to handle records
I bought my domain from Godaddy,
I use cloudflare for most of my services, so i added the nameserver to my godaddy domain configuration.
So lets say I have
api.mydomain.com
firmware.mydomain.com
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Pointing a domain to AWS Route 53
I am having difficulties getting my domain to point to my EC2 properly. I searched through a few third party guides online, and got slightly swamped in the official AWS documentation, but despite this ...
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CNAMEs in Route 53 using @
I'm trying out Amazon's Route 53 and have moved one of my domains over. The only issue I've encountered is that none of my CNAME records are resolving.
In GoDaddy's DNS manager I was able to use @ to ...
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AWS EC2 Instance Auto Scaling Confusion
So first off I'm completely new to AWS so bear with me.
I have had one instance running for a few months now and I now need to autoscale it as I am getting bigger traffic spikes and it gets ...
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Redirect all subdomains to subfolders
I'd like to add a rule so that all subdomains get redirected to a subfolder. For example:
app1.example.com -> example.com/app1
app2.example.com -> example.com/app2
something.example.com -> ...
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HAProxy doesn't automatically reload DNS
I've installed HAProxy 1.7.5-2 on a Debian Stretch (9) for a blue/green deployment infrastructure.
HAProxy is setup in TCP mode and reloads DNS every 5 seconds but it doesn't.
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Managing many entries in Route53
We use Amazon Route53 as my company's primary DNS. As we grow into using multiple services from different providers, each of them requested some kind of DNS entry to verify our domain and/or use their ...
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