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An A record is a type of DNS record that maps a name to an IP address. For example, the A record for serverfault.com is 64.34.119.12

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2 IP's with the same PTR record?

Can I have 2 IPs with the same PTR Record? For example: 122.122.122.1 with PTR Record mail.example.com. 122.122.122.2 with PTR Record mail.example.com. Each IP-address is with a different ISP, the purpose for this is because im running a email…
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Changing an A record

I'm new at this and want to make sure I'm understanding A records completely. If I change the A record for my domain name, traffic for that domain name will be redirected to the new IP address, correct? We have a Google hosted domain and a ShowIt…
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Deleted wildcard 3 days ago still subdomains being resolved to other ip address

I setup A record with wild card entry as I wanted to use some feature of my other website but I delete it for some reason. Now its been 3 days it still points to my other website. Is it cache issue if yes then how to reset it. What's the actual way…
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Subdomain not pointing to IP despite correct A record

Let me explain. I have a domain name which is example.com and a subdomain drive.example.com example.com points to 203.0.113.55 -> no problem drive.example.com points to nothing according to DNS checker. My A record is drive.example.com TTL=14400…
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Deleting subdomain A record with wildcard record in place

I have an A record sub.example.com and another record *.example.com If I delete sub.example.com A record, will there be any resolution issues if they both point to the same IP address? I am migrating subdomain records to use wildcard and I want to…
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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. Record Name Type Routing Differentiator …
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Client DNS Records Not Updating Unless They Are Unsecure

I have 2 member servers on my domain that are getting an event 8018 which looks like this: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Client Date: 4/21/2016 10:57:23 AM Event ID: 8018 Task Category: (1028) Level: Warning Keywords: User: NETWORK…
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DNS A-Record and MX-Record Can't Works

I am a new VPS user, I have created my own nameserver for SLD (example.co.in) and used this nameserver for my other domain example.com. My parent domain registrar is godaddy, where I have setup my nameserver record for the domain example.com and…
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Configuring DNS for new web host while keeping old mail server

I would very much appreciate your advice on the proper way to configure our DNS to move our website only from our current all-in-one provider to Bluehost. Our DNS is managed at Network Solutions. We are keeping our mail at the current host. Current…
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Sometimes ipv4 address instead of ipv6 address

On my website, which runs with apache2 on a debian server with an aaa-record, I check with php whether the user uses IPv6 or not. For this I get the IP address of the user with the following code shippet: if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])){ …
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Can I use only A records, what do CNAME records bring to the table actually?

So I understand that A records point to an IP and CNAME records are just pointers to other A/CNAME records. What's the drawback of using only A records. Are CNAME records only for convenience and organization? For example 5 subdomains using A…
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Point A and MX records to different servers

The more I read the more confused I get, so please advise... I bought a godaddy domain. I have 2 servers, and I want the following... Justhost (Email) Digital Ocean (Web server for app) How can I receive emails on Justhost, but run the app on…
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A Record change on messing hosting setup

Freelance web developer here seeking some advice... I am working with a client who wants to launch new website. Their registrar is FastHosts, which points to Sitegrounds namesevers (their DNS host). I've built a new site which needs to run in a…
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DNS record setup

I recently set up my own mail server using postfix as MTA and dovecot as an imap 'server' (is this the right term?). Now dns records is the last thing to do and I was wondering if I understood this right. Suppose my domain is: mycomp.com. Postfix…
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Glue Records, A Records, and NS Records

I have set up my name server and set the glue records. It's working. However, I'm not sure if I have everything properly to spec. For example, I currently have a glue record set for ns1.mydomain.example set to 192.0.2.4. Now, for the authoritative…
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