Questions tagged [cname-record]
A CNAME record or Canonical Name record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that specifies that the domain name is an alias of another, canonical domain name.
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SSL Certificate for host poiting to CNAME
Hi apologies if this has been asked before but i didn't find a clear cut example.
Lets assume the following scenario, I've a third party server, "sub.example.com" that has a CNAME pointing ...
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Is it possible to have a capturing group in a cname wildcard expression?
I want to have a wildcard CNAME, but to capture the value of the wildcard:
As an example, a record like this on d1.com:
* CNAME $1.example.com
Would create these mappings:
a.s1.d1.com => a.s1....
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Changing hosting server to a website without having the certificate from the CA
I have been helping a friend who published a wordpress webpage developed by a company he contacted that on production has a really poor performance, to fix this I created a react static web page which ...
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Are sites normally hosted on www.example.com and example.com?
I don't like the idea of hosting on both example.com and www.example.com
but I can't get my dns setup to redirect www.example.com to example.com. So what I have right now is both of them work and ...
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Reverse Proxy for Webflow
The web site creation and hosting tool known as webflow doesn’t allow static page hosting. That is I can’t have www.foo.com/something serve a json or text file.
Our DNS has a CNAME for www to proxy-...
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Accessing Windows file server by alias name
What could be the possible problems with accessing a Windows file server shares using a DNS CNAME instead of the actual computer name? The file server is joined to an Active Directory domain, but is ...
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How to point a domain to another e-mail domain? [closed]
I've got a domain in the format jason-bourne.com which I use for my e-mail address with a paid e-mail provider. Now, I'm considering to use a second domain in the format jasonbourne.com as an "...
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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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DNS Records - CNAME
Quite newbie, so sorry any unconnected data. I am creating a DKIM and SPF records to emulate DMARC as a workaround. An external vendor of us, want to send emails under our domain using a subdomain.
I ...
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Wildcard DNS entry is broken by more specific (but non-matching) DNS entry
I have the following DNS entries for the root domain example.com:
* CNAME record pointing to foo.com
dummy.api TXT record containing the value dummy
When I try to resolve bla.foo.com then it ...
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Correct way to point a subdomain to another subdomain using CNAME record
Heyy, I have recently pointed subdomain A to subdomain B using a CNAME record.
What bothers me is the browser's address bar, meaning when I visit subdomain A it then automatically shows the url of ...
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How do I create CNAME records in AWS if the domain is hosted elsewhere?
I have a domain that is hosted from a provider other than AWS. I cannot input the CNAME entries that I need there because I'm using custom nameservers:
ns-743.awsdns-28.net
ns-1077.awsdns-06.org
ns-...
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How to point DNS CNAME to external GitHub Pages domain?
I have repository on GitHub with GitHub Pages set up. If I go to myusername.github.io/my-repo everything works correctly. But, I would like to have my own domain name that looks better than that one.
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How to configure CoreDNS to resolve CNAME records using foreign resolver
I am looking for an example configuration in which CoreDNS will read the CNAME record from the file (file plugin) and then resolve it using a custom resolver (forward plugin?).
A client should not get ...
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Cloudflare CNAME Flattening and Windows DNS server
I have an issue that has been stumping me for the past few days. Lets say we have a website called RobertsStuff.com. This site has CNAME flattening through cloudflare and this is working fine ...
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Nginx IP address www redirection happening on LEMP server without having a c-name or redirect entry in DNS records. Virus or misconfiguration?
On Oracle Cloud server, I have set up a Wireguard VPN Server running Ubuntu Server 20.04. Then, I have set up a Raspberry Pi LEMP Web server as the VPN client to the Oracle Wireguard server. My ...
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PTR registers for CNAMEs
In my bind9 DNS server, I have my servers described like this:
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prd1frm201 IN A 172.21.10.2
dns IN CNAME prd1frm201.kprd1.
ntp IN CNAME ...
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Simple IP/URL Redirection
We have a web application that each user has their own address like our-app.com/user1. Our users want to use their own domain and redirect to their pages on our app. For example www.user1.com => ...
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AWS Route 53 Second Level Wildcard CNAME Not Being Overriden
I am trying to configure some CNAME records for our debug server in AWS Route 53. Our current set up is as follows:
example.com A <AWS Address>
example.com NS &...
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Keep url in address bar with a proxy reverse on nginx
I have a web application where users can create their page. The web application will generate a URL like this for each page created : https://my-domain.com/page/12345. I would like to give my users ...
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Unable to redirect custom hostname to fallback domain in Cloudflare
I'm creating a SaaS app, where I want my customers to use their own domain to access few pages in my app.
I was able to create custom hostname, but the fallback domain is being redirected to my main ...
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Does CNAME mask subdomains?
Say I create the following records:
; zonefile for example.com
www IN CNAME us-east-1.dynamic
staging.www IN CNAME us-east-2.dynamic
admin.www IN A 198....
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Who manages sub-subdomains when you use a CNAME
This is the DNS configuration:
blog.example.com CNAME example.host.com
Then what happens if someone makes a DNS query about a sub-subdomain (e.g. sub.blog.example.com)?
Is that DNS query redirected ...
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AWS Elastic beanstalk cname with and without www
So, I've got a website running in Elastic beanstalk on AWS and I have a custom domain name which points to it, which is managed in Route 53. When I set up the custom domain initially, I just looked ...
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CNAME (pointing to the same server) asks for credentials
Let's say I have two Windows Servers:
dc1
dc2
And I have a CNAME record:
MyFileServer (pointing to dc2)
If I from dc1 opens share \\MyFileServer\c$, then it works fine.
If I from dc2 opens share \\...
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DNS settings for web hosting without a subdomain (www)
I've been trying to find a more elegant solution to allow for better DNS updates for my webserver and the handful of websites that I host on it.
So you have a webserver for example at a VPS provider ...
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Why does A record give SERVFAIL when CNAME record does not fail
If I run
dig @ns5.laposte.net conversation.ees.labanquepostale.fr A
I get a SERVFAIL, but if I run
dig @ns5.laposte.net conversation.ees.labanquepostale.fr CNAME
I got my CNAME:
;; ->>HEADER&...
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What exactly does a URL redirect for @ do?
What exactly does a URL redirect for @ do?
I am familiar with the terminology as seen here. [ sf ]
However, I am trying to understand my DNS records and came across this line:
URL Redirect Record | @ |...
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How to redirect an old subdomain with Route53
I've redirected an old subdomain blog.mysite.com to my homepage mysite.com with a CNAME record in Route53, but.... it doesn't work. I get no server response at all.
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
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DNS propogation is not complete [closed]
I pointed my domain bought on reg.com to Hostinger 4 days ago.
But my DNS propogation is still not completed. NS records have a few location to propgate, and Cname is not propogated at all.
What ...
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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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Domain registrar allows @ CNAME for root domain, is this reliable?
Due to a gap in my knowledge I set up a Windows VM on Azure then I went to Namecheap and registered a domain. Somewhere I got the idea to put in a CNAME record against @ and the FQDN and it works.
In ...
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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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Bind9 allow zones only as part of recursive resolution
In my cloud environment, I have a bind9 server functioning as a proxy for all outgoing DNS queries generated in the environment. I'm currently trying to configure Bind to perform the following ...
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DNS Records: One IP for Primary Domain and One IP for Multiple Subdomain
I'm using Cloudflare (no proxy) to manage DNS Records. I have two servers with IP:
128.xxx.xxx.xxx
174.xxx.xx.x
And these are the DNS Records that I have created:
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Name
Content
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example.com
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Best way to redirect root domain ("apex domain") to another location
This question is a continuation of Using Route53 to point apex/root domain to Heroku application
Right now I have my domain abc.com registered with Route53. I am using a ddns service to point it to a ...
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Forward DNS local to Jira URL
I want to redirect my old helpdesk domain Help.company.com to Jira URL ( Company.atlassian.net/Jira/Helpdesk), it's a simple forwarding and don't want to keep the old URL .
I tried to do a CNAME but ...
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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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A CNAME pointing to 2 different A Records set up with Primary/Secondary Failover Routing?
Considering records like:
host.example.com as a CNAME to:
host01.example.com and
host02.example.com
(on two separate records).
I want to set up those A records to be with a Failover routing policy.
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How does DNS TTL work in chained CNAME configurations?
I have a DNS config that looks something like this:
www.example.com 600 IN CNAME prod.myzone.l2.company.example
prod.myzone.l2.company.example 600 IN CNAME ssl-endpoint-...
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How to redirect forward from one subdomain to another subdomain with DNS?
I have several subdomains under an existing main domain, e.g.:
eg.domain1.com
ie.domain1.com
The company is rebranding, and has setup a new main domain, under which all of these subdomains now need ...
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How should I set my nginx configuration to use subdomains with CNAME host record?
running Debian 11.
How should I add my subdomain to my site using my CNAME DNS records? My website directory is located at /var/www/ and I'm wondering if I can make a subdirectory for the subdomain ...
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How to create SPF records for my subdomains pointing to services hosted on Azure
I have a webapp running on Azure and use Google Domains for the domain name (mywebapp.com) and DNS. Azure automatically generates URLs for different resources/services (e.g: https://black-cat-12345....
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Domain name does not work
I created an app with azure, a such link https://viva.azurewebsites.net I got in the end.
After that I bought a domain name. The domain provider created a A-Record and CNAME-record, everything is well ...
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Redirect secure domain to another via CNAME and an Nginx Docker Container
Update: I have appended a 2nd attempt at the bottom of this post. It is "working," but I would like to make my original idea work.
I am attempting to redirect an https request for a domain ...
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A CNAME with a wildcard embedded
I'm trying to set up a CNAME DNS entry:
start.*.example.com
That matches the following domain names:
start.a.b.c.example.com
start.a.example.com
Is this possible? My current tests are failing with ...
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What is meant by collapse CNAME?
While I was working on a certain DNS traffic management tool (Akamai) I found a checkbox to enable Collapse CNAMEs. I did not find any useful resources on this topic. What does it mean and how it ...
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With a multi-tenant application, better alternative to chained CNAME?
Let's assume I have a multi-tenant webserver that runs an application for 500+ domains. I have an AWS Loadbalancer url, my_application.elb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com, which have A and AAAA records to the ...
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Firebaes CNAME brought down website?
I am adding firebase authentication to a website, it was working well so I decided to get the domain verified to add some more functionality.
On the firebase documentation, it says you need to add two ...
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SRV record not working properly?
I'm currently dealing with a little problem that routes back to me simply not having a static IP, as my ISP charges a ridiculous sum for that.
I have a DDNS in place, which works fine. Except, I'm now ...
