Questions tagged [nameserver]
A name server is a computer server that hosts a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service.
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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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OpenVPN: Leaking DNS on Linux Clients
I've just set up an OpenVPN server. It connects fine and all, but after a check on dnsleaktest.com, I've discovered, there is a DNS leak. I've searched for solutions, and could only come up with these ...
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What steps do I follow to make a domain point to IP?
I just bought a domain from domain.com and I want to make it point to my server's IP...
So far, I've added the record sets needed to Azure.
1) A (@)
2) A (www)
3) NS
4) SOA
After that, I changed ...
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Testing DNS glue records for hidden nameservers that aren't live yet
How do I test the glue records for a nameserver that isn't live yet?
I am more than happy testing glue records for domains that are live.
This time however we have just started the roll out of a ...
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What happens if you have NS domains be resolved by their own NS servers? [duplicate]
Let me explain.
For example, you have a site, site.com, and on the domain provider service, you decide you want to have your own nameservers, and enter the new addresses.
You decide to let these ...
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Trying to set-up Authoritative-Only DNS Servers. My domains are not directed to the server
Guys I am hoping I can find help here.
I am having trouble setting up Authoritative-Only DNS Servers.
One server is a Cloud Virtual Server XL (master server and web server - has Plesk) the other one ...
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set long ttl on host records before nameserver change?
I'm trying to move DNS from GD to route 53 and it seems impossible to avoid downtime, even with identical zone files in both location. From my experiments, as soon as I change to 'custom' nameservers ...
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Creating DNS Zone before projects relocation when using same NS records (No Downtime Allowed)
We have 2 accounts (servers), every account has different domains attached and because it's the same company all the domains uses the same nameservers. So according to this great response of @wesley ...
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bind9: how to query external nameservers in local zone config
I have configured a zone in my bind9 installation. Its supposed to be a public nameserver which I am managing through a python script for dyndns subdomains. But my main website is hosted by 3rd party ...
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Can we update CNAME per request? [closed]
I would like to return a unique CNAME for each request and add the IP address of that CNAME to the zone files. is it possible?
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How to associate DNS requests with the requests to web server hosting that domain name?
We registered a domain name (say 'example.com') and what we want is to see who is trying to resolve the domain name and what kind of requests he send to the web server of that domain name.
For this ...
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Default A record for custom nameserver
I have quite a few domains parked that are currently not in use, so I am looking into a dead simple way to maintain them and display a custom parking-page. I do not want to update every single one the ...
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Setting up a custom nameserver
I'm trying to setup my own nameservers for my server. So far I have:
Installed bind9 via apt-get
Updated my DNS so I have:
NS1.NEWBYHOST.COM => 213.219.38.44 (and also an AAAA record)
NS2.NEWBYHOST....
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Setup multiple VPS with single domain name and two set of nameservers (glue records)
I am stuck in a bit complicated situation(complicated for me, might not be for you).
What I have:
I have 2 virtual private servers on two different IPs eg. 192.0.0.1, 192.0.0.2(let's name these vps1 ...
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Creating NS records pointing to NS records
We have a situation where sometimes we need to get our clients to set up the NS records to point to our service.
I'd like to make this as easy as possible and was wondering if I can create NS records ...
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I want to point my domain to url on another domain
I have school management system, where school owners have is registered.
I am giving them a subdomain eg school1.mysite.com.
All is fine till here, but one school's owner wants this to place it on ...
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How to minimize downtime when moving web hosting, using vanity nameservers
I am migrating live sites from OLD_SERVER to NEW_SERVER. I have root access to NEW_SERVER but I only have WHM access on OLD_SERVER. I know that to minimize downtime, I can reduce the TTL on each of ...
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No-IP DDNS to My Domain - What DNS Records Do I Have To Add? [closed]
I have a DDNS set up at "example.ddns.net", which is a fixed address I can always find my own server at - but I can't seem to link it with my domain name. I'm using the domain name providers own ...
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Google Domains Nameserver not resolving
I have a domain that registered on Google Domains, except I don't want to make use of their hosting options, so I've changed the nameservers to point to the hosting company's, except they don't seem ...
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Cname to replace namesever change
I'm using Cloudflare and they want me to change my nameserver from ns1.mydomain.com to ns1.lamedomain.com
Can I use a cname record to keep ns1.mydomain.com or should I use "A" record and link to the ...
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How to I make a domain resolve to different IP's when resolved from internal network and external network?
So I looked through BIND and Dnsmasq and unable to figure this out.
I have a few of servers on DigitalOcean, and they are on the same datacenter. I want to be able to use internal IPs to get better ...
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should a nameserver have an independant address
I spend most of my time on stack overflow, so I hope I have the right site.
As long as I can remember I have always ran a small ispconfig cluster, myispconfighost.com. During this time I have used a ...
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Will a change of Nameservers affect glue records?
I need to change nameservers, but need to keep glue records as the are, If I change my domain's main nameservers will that affect my child (glue records)?
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What prevent me from creating my own nameserver? [closed]
Let's say I buy a domain from GoDadday www.example.com. What prevents me from configuring the name server to point to ns1.myownserver.com. And in ns1.myownserver.com I can create any kind of mapping I ...
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configuring TTL from 1800 sec to 86400 sec on Ubuntu, nginx server
I deployed an app to Digital Ocean Ubuntu server. The app is running on NGINX.
My Domain registar sent me the messages that "TTL can't be less than 86400 sec on nameservers" It is currently 1800 sec ...
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G Suite nameserver records for BIND DNS, how?
so... i installed BIND on my own computer and looking at NSLOOKUP result, it does works. But i cant make it works for the gsuite stuff.
Any idea how?
currently the code is like this
$TTL 6h
@ IN ...
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Website opening via IP but not domain using AWS Route53
I'm using ec2 amazon aws. I have an IP address which is opening the website currently. So I can safely assume my security group is correctly set. I have added the name-server to the domain (godaddy) ...
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Self-Hosted Public Nameservers do not return FQDN
(Results from queries are only representative samples)
I am new to public DNS management. I have setup 2 nameservers in Azure. I have pointed my domains over to them and created forward lookup zones ...
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“Server DNS address could not be found, ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED” but site IS online…
One of the websites we host through Flywheel was giving my team (we all work at the same location) this error:
This site can’t be reached
server DNS address could not be found.
ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
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AWS name servers [duplicate]
For most hosting providers, including cloud hosting, you are given a couple name servers like ns1.hostingprovider.domain and ns2.hostingprovider.domain, which you use for all your domains.
On AWS, ...
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Registering nameservers with network solutions / Verisign
I've been asking alot of questions about setting up public nameservers lately. I think I've finally got the servers setup so I went to network solutions (my registrar) to point my domain name to my ...
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Changing nameservers when our ISP is our current nameserver
We are looking into changing our name servers. Currently, Our nameservers point to our ISP. They handle all of our public DNS Entries.
I am under the understanding that in order to experience minimal ...
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Are new domainnames propagated to DNS servers [duplicate]
After receiving spam on my newly registered, unused domain within a day I was curious about how they found it. With the help of google I found a site called domainpunch which lists all Addition to the ...
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Change name server (www.eatj.com)
I hosted my website www.thakormatrimony.com on www.eatj.com . The website was working fine for last two years, but now www.eatj.com 's server is hacked and my website is down since 3 month. I tried to ...
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Office 365 email with SquareSpace website
I currently have my website and email services managed by Office 365. Name servers for my domain are currently pointing at ns1.bdm.microsoftonline.com and ns2.bdm.microsoftonline.com to let Office ...
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Email of new server working without changing nameserver
I have a very weird situation. I bought a new hosting provider for my website. I was moving my website to the new hosting servers. So I uploaded all the public_html data, import database file, And ...
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Nameservers with CloudFlare [closed]
I want to make a hosting service but I don't want to expose my IP address.
So, I set my account up at cloudflare and setup the DNS records on cloudflare and set my host up.
But now, I can't seem to ...
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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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AWS Lightsail domain unreachable
I created a NodeJS instance, set the nameservers in the domain host, and added a few records for www and other subdomains.
I can only access the instance via public IP, and subdomains, but the main ...
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Domain names not getting resolved after adding ethernet port to Open vSwitch
For a QoS experiment, I wanted to connect two VMs to Open vSwitch.
I created two tap interfaces and attached the VMs to them. I added the two tap interfaces to Open vSwitch. Finally, I added the ...
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How to set a type DNS? [closed]
I have a dedicated hosting and I am trying to set the dns on the server side to an a type dns. Lets say my domain is: myDomain.com and I have already pointed it at the registery to ns1.myDomain.com ...
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Best process to swap domain used as nameserver for a server
This is a question relating to process and minimising downtime. I have a Ubuntu/Bind configuration that serves a number of domains.
The nameservers are set through 123reg to use example1.uk and ...
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How do I redirect a domain in Route53?
I am having a crazy issue with Route53.
I have two domains: startuppatterns.com and startuppatternsbook.com. I transferred both of them to Route53 over a week ago. The transfer went fine.
Two days ...
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DNS changes not propagating after over a month and two changes for one specific Central American ISP
I volunteered at an event last month that helps non-profit organizations get some attention for their web needs.
My organization needed new hosting. I spun up an AWS EC2 instance, we installed Apache,...
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How to set NS for second server?
I have a domain: example.com and have a server with IP 21.1.1.1
I set vanity/private/child nameservers for example.com as below:
ns1.example.com with IP 21.1.1.1
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ns2.example.com with IP 21.1.1.1
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Running Nameserver behind NAT
I have an internet connection with a static ip from my ISP. I do have mail servers and webservers hosted from it. What i would like to achieve is run couple of nameservers by getting another static ip ...
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Setting up nameservers that can be used on domains
I have a private server in which I host a few web applications. How I'm currently pointing the domain names I purchased to web applications hosted by IIS in my Win Server 2012 R2 is through setting ...
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Name server IP is changing automatically during the day
I have 2 ns records (NS1 and NS2) that point to server1 (IP 1.1.1.1)
I am currently migrating server1 and i have changed my NS2 record to point to server2 (IP:2.2.2.2).
So now i have NS1 pointing to ...
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Is a DNS glue record more beneficial for a small site?
Okay say you own someSmallSite.com. Its NS nameserver, is say, ns1.hostgator.com. The NS server of Hostgator is ns1.p13.dynect.net. The NS record of that is ns0.dynamicnetworkservices.net which has a ...
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Set up Windows Server 2012 R2 before migrating wordpress website [closed]
My company decides to move their website to a new Windows Dedicated Server. I am a totally newbie right here, and have no idea what to do.
Can you please let me know what are the steps to do that? ...