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can ping website but not enter it

I currently have two server {A;B}. A is hosting a IIS webpage, and B is trying to access it. I am able to access the page within server A (No problem since it is hosted there).. I have altered the ...
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Server2016 - nslookup - Default Server

i have only a question about nslookup and Default Server.I have two primary zones on my server: 1. pedf.com 2. test.cz When I start command NSLOOKUP, I see that the Default Server: server.test.cz .....
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nameservers reported by whois cannot be found by nslookup

The nameservers of my domain are listed correctly on the whois entry: whois destiglobal.com | grep NS gives the following result: Name Server: HEATHER.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM Name Server: OWEN.NS....
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Issue with nslookup on virtual machine

I have a Unitrends backup virtual machine running as a virtual machine. I also have a Windows Server running as a virtual machine. I can ping anything on the network from the Windows virtual machine. ...
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Dns nx domain in cmd but page loads in browser [closed]

When running nslookup google.com in cmd on my corporate laptop I get nxdomain but how come does the page open then in my web browser? Can anyone please explain? Thank you.
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NSLookup Requires "." in all queries

I am not sure what happened but after reinstalling Windows DNS (server 2012 r2), when I do an nslookup and enter any domain it appends my domain to the end. For example: I enter "microsoft.com" and ...
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How do I figure out what's wrong with my DNS record?

My network admins have created a DNS record for thedigitalteacher.com which should include an A record for the domain root pointing to 5.10.124.142, which is indeed the response I get if I use our ...
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How does "nslookup -ls" work?

I've been going through the 4th Edition (2001, yes, very old) of the O'Reilly "DNS and Bind" book, and it keeps talking about nslookup, which seems to be relatively hard to get one's hands on in this ...
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Server switch: Check DNS TTL values

Can somebody let me know if from the below results from using dig https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/#ANY/ What is the correct TTL value? as I see 2 different ones: id 10958 opcode QUERY rcode ...
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server can't find 2.0.9.10.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN

I have set up a VPC peering between two different project's VPC on GCP and it works fine when i ping my vm-instance and i'm also able to ssh to my instance with private ips. However, if I query it ...
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Different hostname to ip resolving results (nslookup)

Good day, everyone. Let's say I have a following setup: Windows 7 as host machine, DNS 192.168.0.100, 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 Ubuntu 16.04 as guest machine on VirtualBox, DNS 192.168.0.100 (host?) ...
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Route53 subdomain not resolved with nslookup

My problem I am trying to build a personal CDN to share static file with my contacts. The design includes an S3 bucket, a CloudFront distribution and a subdomain registered via Route53, all ...
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Windows 2012 R2 DNS SERVFAIL on linux / mac clients

SERVFAIL is causing issues with some of our applications on linux/macs. I presume this is Windows DNS causing some problems with our linux/mac clients? Then again Windows clients are able to do ...
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Find out which DNS server answered your query

I have a seemingly simple question but couldn't find the answer to precisely that question after some search: I know that, if I want to look up the IP address of some domain name, I type, for example: ...
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How can I verify Windows DNS forwarders are working?

I thought I knew how to do this, but I guess not. Even the d2 debugging in nslookup doesn't show the actual forwarder being queried. So...let's say I set up DNS forwarders in a Windows DNS server ...
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What an nslookup command return if multiple sites are assigned to the same IP

I read in a book that nslookup command is used to find the IP address from a domain name and vice-versa. And domain name are just the names given to the IP Addresses as it is easy to remember names ...
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How to find internal DNS records that are pointing to an IP

Ive got a number of internal DNS records that have been setup to point to a test web server. Its been a while since they were setup and I want to see whats pointing to a particular server. So I have ...
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nslookup returns 192.168.1.1 for www.google.com

I have a machine with 2 network interfaces on it eth0 and eth1. I want to use interface eth0 for internet and eth1 for my intranet communication which is connected to a internal router. The internet ...
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nslookup returns different IP than $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR']

Without knowing much about system administration, here is in short what I noticed: running nslookup the-site.com returns some IP but running $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] on that site returned different IP. ...
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Garbage DNS record

nslookup returns 2 IP addresses for one of the clients in my network: Server: dc.mynet.local Address: 192.168.43.1 Name: fileserver.mynet.local Addresses: 192.168.43.2 192.168.45.2 ...
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2 networks, but name resolution fully works only for one network

I have a Windows 2012 Server with DNS configured, on vmware workstation. Name Server is "ad.nuglab.local", with "Host (A)" record of 172.16.202.109 and 192.168.1.111 On my host PC, with dns server ...
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What's the magic incantation to force DNS queries over TCP on an Amazon/AMI image?

It looks as though the resolv.conf option use-vc is being ignored on an Amazon AMI (latest 2016.09 version). Consider the following: [hadoop@ip-172-20-40-202 ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search default....
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Debian Jessie NS LOOKUP ip

When i use command nslookup 192.168.1.1 or (my real ip address) back this: 1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa name = 1.1.168.192-my-net.net I want to change name with my website example 1.1.168.192.in-...
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Cannot resolve hostname of devices connected to a wireless network using ip address ** server can't find x.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa.: NXDOMAIN

I'm trying to resolve the hostname of devices connected to my wireless lan network through their ip addresses. I'm using a macbook and my /etc/resolv.conf show this as my dns server (192.168.1.1) ...
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Unexpected mail exchangers from nslookup [closed]

I'm working on Windows 10 and I want, for example, to get the MX server of the site achab.it. Asking for nslookup -type=mx achab.it, I am expecting to obtain: Server: anyres1.fastwebnet.it Address: ...
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Multiple reverse DNS record internal DNS

A user was having trouble connecting to the internet, some sites worked some sites did not. I do not think it has anything to do with networking gear, but just in case. 2 firewall, Palo-Alto 4 ...
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How to send a DNS query with Additional RR?

How to send a DNS query with additional RR included? (from a host to DNS server)
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dig gets answer from bind9, but host, nslookup and postfix don't

I have just upgraded my working email server from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04, which caused many issues. One of the issues I couldn't resolve is this: I run a caching bind9 DNS with a pretty standard ...
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Perform authoritative DNS A record lookup with single command?

To get the authoritative A record for the apex of a domain I'm using: $ nslookup -q=ns example.com Server: 194.168.4.100 Address: 194.168.4.100#53 Non-authoritative answer: example.com ...
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Mail client continues to use old MX record after TTL expired; authoritative entry missing

I changed MX records at my domain name provider (network solutions) twice today. One test client is still sending mails to the older record even though its TTL has expired. So, in other words, this is ...
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Server 2012 DNS server not resolving all forward lookup zones

Name resolution is failing for a handful of zones at only one site. It had been working fine, but stopped at one site recently. We are using DNS to restrict access to Youtube (see here) so we have a ...
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Why is DNS lookup slow to specific domains only?

We're running Windows DNS servers, but they are not authoritative. So we point to caching servers as forwarders. That said, for the following two domains we get a rather long delay in DNS lookup IF ...
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nslookup not resolving hostname

I can't seem to get nslookup to resolve correctly. Here is my hosts file: [root@clc-host ge2011.11]# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ::1 ...
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Trying to figure out why nslookup is giving me two different IP addresses

I'm pretty new to the world of computer science and ran into something that I'm having trouble understanding: I have this homework assignment asking me to list the IP address produced by using the ...
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Can't resolve hostname by ip address over nslookup [closed]

I've got an Ubuntu Server on my LAN. I can fully use it (samba, ssh, apache2, xmpp...) by using it's ip address. But I want to use the hostname to connect (e.g. ssh). When I do a nslookup with the ip ...
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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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Can't query most DNS servers from ESXi guests

I'm having some issues doing DNS lookups against most DNS servers from the guests on my ESXi 5.5 host. I'm saying most because I can do DNS lookups just fine against the DNS servers I've configured ...
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BIND DNS nslookup NXDOMAIN

I have BIND DNS server installed in my LAN on Linux CentOS on IP 192.168.0.30. I also have HTTPD Web server installed in my LAN on Linux Centos on IP 192.168.0.23. My /etc/named.conf file is ...
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In a BIND.. Weird DNS issue

I have now somehow replicated a weird issue with one of my DNS zones on two different servers and with two different versions of ISC BIND. I have a sub-domain delegated to my server. The first time ...
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nslookup picking up wrong address

All of my client machines are picking up the incorrect server address when using nslookup. I also get the incorrect DNS Servers when using ipconfig /all C:\Users\>nslookup Default Server: ...
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Finding all aliases for a server

Our network admin is away at the moment. I'm trying to find all aliases attached to a given server on our network (actually a number of servers) After googling around it seems like nslookup might do ...
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How and why should I serve a 404 when my site's static ip is directly requested?

I am trying to improve the production environment on my website's server. I notice that many sites do not have an IP address that is directly accessible, yet it looks like my site's IP is accessible. ...
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Wrong IP when issuing nslookup - Windows DNS Server [closed]

I recently setup a Windows Active Directory server for Home use. (for learning purposes) Now I have the following problem when using nslookup on a connected client: http://s17.postimg.org/vcfivvmkf/...
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Bind Server issue: Can not nslookup from client when DNS Master is down, but still can connect to Internet

I setup 2 Bind servers on Ubuntu Server 14.04. The first one is Master DNS and the second is Slave. I have a DHCP server running isc-dhcp-server and assign 2 DNS Server IP for clients Everything seem ...
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why is a wget to http://graph.facebook.com resolving to my server's IP?

This makes absolutely no sense and I spent 3 hours trying to figure this out. Suddenly all my scripts connecting to Facebook stopped working, so I tried to do this: root@s01 [~]# wget http://graph....
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Google DNS returns SERVFAIL for domain [duplicate]

Hope someone can help I know the basics of DNS setup, am having an issue with my hosting company. Have several domains hosted, DNS settings are basically setup by the hosting company using their ...
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All DNS queries to AD DNS server suffixed with xxxxx.cloudapp.net

I configured an Azure VM with Windows 2012 R2 and the DNS Server role installed. I have another VM in the same VNet and I am using nslookup to query the DNS server. Every time I query any domain ...
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OpenVPN client nslookup failure after disconnect

Currently I am trying to route my traffic through a gateway running Debian Linux which forwards all incoming traffic thorugh a VPN connection (Client -> Gateway with OpenVPN client -> VPN server -> ...
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PC's cant resolve the servers name

we've recently upgraded our server and we've been having an issue where the computers can't find the server without me mapping it's IP in the hosts file. They can find it when I fully qualify it with ...
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Reverse IP Lookups [closed]

When I resolve google.com I get the following ip addresses Name: google.com Addresses: 2607:f8b0:4006:80b::1006 173.194.123.6 173.194.123.0 173.194.123.8 e.t.c However ...
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