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NSD single record update without full reload

I have a large zonefile (2 GB) that takes 15 minutes to load into nsd. nsd-control reload zone I would like to add a new record to the zonefile and avoid a full zone reload. Is there a strategy to ...
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How to have a CNAME record and TXT record for the same domain?

When configuring a Google Site on a custom domain, the instructions provided by Google specify to create two records for the domain - a TXT and CNAME record. The TXT record contains a code that Google ...
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how to use terraform with nsd?

is it possible to manage nsd dns with terraform? i keep getting a NOTINT error but per man page there is an option to accept UPDATE opcodes. when i set drop-updates: no nsd starts fine but i get the ...
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how consul behind nsd

How tel nsd to use .consule as another service level for checking records. Here the stub-zone for unbound but how to tell nsd use consul? Unbound config stub-zone: name: "consul" stub-addr: ...
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Checking the validity of Resource Records in DNS Zones

I am using perl to do some DNS manipulation tasks. I am using NSD as my DNS server. I want to figure out what the best way is to check whether the names of all Resource Records in a DNS zone file are ...
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Unable to resolve DKIM TXT record

I've installed and configured OpenDKIM and SPF TXT records on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. However, I'm unable to resolve my DKIM TXT record. I'm running NSD as my DNS and configured as mydomain.com.zone. My ...
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DNS (NSD) zone transfer not working

I'm trying to create a master/slave setup using NSD. I have NSD installed on two servers. The servers are running great; when I perform normal DNS queries they return the information from the zone ...
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Reverse DNS Lookup for 10.* Failing

I am trying to configure NSD and Unbound to handle Internal DNS. I have everything working for forward look ups but reverse looks ups are failing. I am not sure what to do next, but looking at the ...
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NSD/BIND -- how to log dns resolver ip and edns

Do BIND and NSD support verbose logging of the DNS resolver's ip address for a query? If the vanilla releases do support that, what's the best practice for enabling/configuring that functionality. ...
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Unbound stub-host option not resolving using /etc/hosts

I have unbound running as an validating, caching, recursive dns server and nsd3 running as an authoritative nameserver. It seems like every aspect of both work correctly until I attempt to resolve an ...
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unbound/nsd returning SERVFAIL resolving local LAN DNS. nsd alone works fine

I've been using unbound as a local recursive DNS server. Just added nsd to set up local LAN DNS. nsd is listening on port 53530 and that works fine: $ dig @127.0.0.1 data2.datanet.home -p 53530 ; &...
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How to include a file in a zone file (using $INCLUDE directive) in nsd name server

I want to include a file in the zone file in a nsd name server implementation, using the $INCLUDE directive. When I reload the zone with the nsd-control reload <zone> command, in the log ...
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Does the order of entries/record types matter in NSD/BIND zone config files?

I'm trying to streamline the addition of DNS records to an NSD install. It looks like it uses the same syntax as BIND so this question may be relevant to either. It seems like the convention I'm ...
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Fun this TTLs and many records in PDNS

I got very strange issue for me. I have powerdns server with potentially thousands of cname records. This records inserted to my DNS via mysql queries from network http service. This is a way how I ...
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nameserver is not resolving - hetzner root server

I bought new root server on hetzner with 2 additional IPs. CentOs 6.4 minimal version is installed. Based on this tutorial i assigned 2 additional IPs. ie, duplicated ifcfg-eth0 file to ifcfg-eth0:1 ...
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zone transfer between NSD machines without adding zone name to slave machine

I have added my 'example.com' to master nsd machine with records within the zone file. Now i want to setup a slave nsd machine, is it possible to transfer the zone records without adding the zone name ...
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Nginx and NSD3 don't start on boot because they cannot use the assigned IP

Server is a Xen VPS running Ubuntu 12.04 and neither nginx nor NSD3 come up after reboot. The apparent reason for that is that they're not able to bind to their assigned IP addresses right after boot, ...
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Failover at the DNS Level (2 LB and 2 Static IP)

I'm building 2 boxes, each will be Static Content Server (NginX) + Load-Balancer (HAproxy) + DNS Server (NSD). The TTL on each DNS server for (A) records will be something like 30-60 seconds. ...
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Zone transfer Windows Server DNS from NSD

I have a NSD server being primary server for a zone and want a Windows Server (2008 and 2012 RC) box to be secondary for that zone. Everything is configured and working EXCEPT: When Windows receives ...
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Auto-updating DNS Records Between NSD Servers

Let's say I have a couple of separate Linux NSD servers. How can I make the master server share changes with the slave servers? NSD appears to have this functionality. It can declare zones as master ...
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Bootstrapping A Records for a DNS Server

My problem is this. Dissatisfied with the existing free DNS nameserver solutions, I decided to make my own nameservers for my websites. I'm using NSD on Debian, and it's working great. I can request ...
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IPsec tunnel keep crashing

I have 2 locations. On each location is installed VPN device Cisco RV042. Link between location is optical fiber. ISP is the same. Link speed on location A is symetric 3/3 Mbps, and there is static ...
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How do I tell nsd3 to serve for all zonefiles in a directory?

I have this directory structure: \etc\nsd3 |- nsd3.conf |- zones | |- zonefile.com.zone | |- zonefile2.com.zone Currently I have to add an entry into nsd3.conf for each zonefile I ...
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How to set up a subdomain in nsd3

nsd3 is very little-known but super-lightweight and stable DNS server which makes it a great alternative to bind9 be used on low-end boxes. There is a very good tutorial here that describe how to set ...
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NSD reply from unexpected source

I have server with NSD. There are MAIN_IP and ADD_IP. When I try to get IP of my site from server I have right output dig @localhost my_site.com But when I try to make this from my PC, I have dig @...
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split dns for google

how to setup any dns (prefer nsd3) to give ip 1.2.3.4 for google and 2.3.4.5 for all others?
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how can i setup maradns / nsd server to answer a single IP address to any query

i tried the manual, but cant find how/if i can set it to answer single ip for all queries. anyone tried any of these? which one works? or any other smaller, secure bind alternatives? tnx nb. nsd: ...
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