Questions tagged [soa-record]
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NS record of subdomain does not propagate
UPDATE: resolved, answer at the end of the question
May I know if I had done something wrong? or if something has changed in the last 3~4 years regarding the practice of dns record propagations? the ...
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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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SOA record RNAME: Do special characters besides dot need backslash?
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035#section-8
If the <local-part> contains dots or other special characters, its
representation in a master file will require the use of backslash
quoting to ...
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How an SOA record is used?
I just created a DNS zone in Azure, and an SOA record was created there automatically. Now next task is to map the NameServers with the Domain registrar.
I could not understand, How is SOA record used ...
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IntoDNS SOA Retry Record
I can't reach my website.
When I check into DNS, it gives me this error:
Your SOA RETRY value is: 10800. That is NOT OK
Can anyone help me about this please?
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AWS SOA record from AWS to Cloudflare
I purchase a domain with AWS to try it out and edited the NS records with CloudFlare records, but I also have another entry for SOA, this is it:
Record type
SOA – Start of authority record
ns-501....
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PowerDNS - SOA serial mismatch on slaves
I am using PowerDNS with the PostgreSQL backend on three different servers, in native mode, all replication is done at the PostgreSQL backend. No server is set as master, pdns.conf is almost in ...
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Alternative to SOA?
So I've been looking at No SOA record -- what are the implications? which shows that SOA records aren't obligatory but a good idea.
As of today - 0-21.ru doesn't have an SOA record. It has a Whois ...
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What happens if I do not set my real primary DNS as SOA entry in a Hidden Primary setup?
I want to setup a Hidden Primary DNS server, i.e. I host the zone files on my own server, but all requests should go to Secondary DNS servers hosted by a dedicated DNS company. My own DNS server ...
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changed name servers, but AWS still blocking site
I was advised that changing name servers over to a traditional hosting service would be enough to move the site, but it's not working and I think amazon is still controlling something. Is it possible ...
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Verify DNS SOA (Start of Authority)
I am having trouble understanding a very specific part of the DNS Service and it's underlying structure. It is best described by showing a specific problem that could arise by a malicious ISP (...
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NS and SOA records not propagated after migration from Route 53
I recently transferred a domain helloorbital.com from GoDaddy to Route 53. However, when I used WhatsMyDNS to check my SOA and NS records, they are still pointing to the old registrar's records, how ...
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Prevent "hostmaster" subdomain from redirecting to the main site
I host mainsite.com and othersite.net on a single Debian 8 server with nginx/1.6.2. Recently I discovered that Google indexed hostmaster.othersite.net and this subdomain shows full content of mainsite....
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SOA for DNS delegation
I'll first say that what I'm doing now seems to work, though I'm unclear on whether it's correct. I have a domain registrar company (inherited from a contract) and a name server company, separate ...
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NS or SOA causing issues intermittently?
My site always seems to be loading fine for me but I started receiving reports of some people not being able to connect to the site. It seems to be a DNS issue, but I can't isolate the problem.
Some ...
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Propagate new DNS records faster
Does setting the refresh time in an SOA record make newly created DNS records "propagate" faster? (I understand the term propagate is technically inaccurate)
I'm making many new DNS records (A ...
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DNS: What exactly is the SOA hostmaster?
I know that by default the value for a SOA record's RP is "hostmaster". I presume this is an alias, but what for? And would it make any difference if I put [email protected] instead of ...
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DNSReports are talking about 2 SOA records
I'm sorry to bother you. I'm actually losing my mind on my server's configuration.
For more information : I have a dedicated server from Kimsufi (OVH-lowcost :D) with Debian 7.1, and a few domains ...
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Error pointing Godaddy domain to VPS
I just have bought a new domain on the provider Godaddy.
I'm trying to set up the glue records in order to point to my point to my server: 137.74.194.89
I think I've done everything ok in my server ...
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Syncronize SOA serial numbers explanation
I made two successive mistakes while updating zone records. Once I forgot to increment the serial number, then next time I did put a digit more ie 20170210111 instead of 2017021011, and each time I ...
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Moving away from cloudflare
I set up cloudflare for a domain a few weeks ago as a stopgap to have TLS. I now want to move this domain to AWS and Route 53.
The domain has been added to Route 53, but I'm not sure how to change ...
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Server 2012r2 DNS failover/load balance SOA entry
I have 2 Server 2012r2 servers running DNS in failover/loadbalance. They both sync fine but I have noticed that they each claim themselves as SOA. It sounds wrong to me, but is this due to the ...
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What triggers the usage of the negative time to live DNS SOA record value?
I'm reading through the following dns tutorial and it has this example in it:
domain.com. IN SOA ns1.domain.com. admin.domain.com. (
12083 ; serial number
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How to fix SOA error: Could not find reverse address for IP
I have just got to administer a Linux server (CentOS 6.8), where there are a handful of websites hosted.
There sometimes (very rare) is a problem of requesting one of the sites, let's say example.fi. ...
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DNS problems after switching to Custom nameservers
hope you can help me with this...
Last week I was required by my registar to switch from default to custom DNS servers (ns1.status2.com / ns2.status2.com) on my domain (status2.com) in order to ...
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How to set SOA Expire Value? [closed]
I ran my domain through intoDNS and the report returned a warning saying
Your SOA EXPIRE number is: 3600000. That is NOT OK
So I've been looking to change the value ever since. You wouldn't believe ...
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Use one $INCLUDE for the SOA record for several zone files / Bad Practice?
So, we're self hosting our DNS forward and reverse zones, and are using our upstream - ISP as slaves.
Now, we've got a bunch of zones that have an identical SOA record.
I want to use an $INCLUDE for ...
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Secondary DNS different SOA record
we are managing our DNS data at Azure DNS. They provide 4 NS for redundancy, but just two days ago the whole Azure DNS service went down for a few hours, and all of our services with it as well. Now i'...
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Does the SOA serial have importance when it comes to ISP caching nameservers?
Lets say I forget to update the SOA serial when updating the zonefile.
Of course, this means any slaves will not sync to the master because it thinks no change has been done.
The question I have, is, ...
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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 can I fix these SOA DNS problems?
I've set up a new domain on my new server and when testing the DNS I receive 2 warnings that I'm concerned about:
1) Delivery over IPv4 to [email protected] could not be done.
2) Failed to deliver ...
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Does SOA record need to be updated to alter nameservers
My domain registrar has a top level SOA record for my domain which is unchangeable and two NS records pointing to the default nameservers for the registrar. If I want to update my nameservers do I ...
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DNS issue "Nameserver cannot be queried for SOA." - Eurodns registrar
Recently we purchased a few domains ( on EuroDNS, which we have been using for years), to use as sending domains for emails. Our ESP asked us to point them to their NS.
All went smooth for .com and ....
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Windows 2012 Master & Ubuntu Bind 9 Slave & SOA
I'm kinda like the maid... I don't do Windows. But thanks to new things we're implementing, I'm now attempting replicating a single zone from our AD cluster. We had this working just fine but ...
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Exist a way to make gTLD servers update its NS records for a given domain? [closed]
I changed the DNS servers for a given domain and still days after that change gTLD continue replying a set of NS records that include the old NS entries.
dig @g.gtld-servers.net. example.com ns
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nameservers do not agree on the SOA serial
I have two domains pointing at the same IP address with A records. Both domains use the same two nameservers, and still I am having big connection issues for many, but not all of the customers coming ...
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My DNS zone foo.com resolves the SOA but doesn't resolve the A record
named.conf.local (included in named.conf)
zone "foo.com" {
type master;
file "/var/lib/bind/foo.com.hosts";
};
DNS zone
$ttl 600
foo.com. IN SOA server.hostname. mail.server....
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Overwrite SOA expiry in a bind9 slave name server
I run a slave name server of a domain that I do not have full control over (i.e. changing the SOA is not possibly). The SOA specifies an expiry time of one week. For various reasons, I’d like to ...
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What DNS is authoritative for my domain
I have registered and delegated a domain name thetabox.ru with the domain name registrar, which allows me to edit a zone file for my domain. I have also set up a VPS with a hosting company, which ...
