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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How to redirect forward from one subdomain to another subdomain with DNS?
I have several subdomains under an existing main domain, e.g.:
eg.domain1.com
ie.domain1.com
The company is rebranding, and has setup a new main domain, under which all of these subdomains now need to exist under the same DNS IP Addresses,…
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Forwarding from A Record's IP Address
mycustomer.com has an A record with 11.11.11.11 IP.
I am the owner of the 11.11.11.11. The server uses Windows DNS.
When I create a forward zone with mycustomer.com and put an A record with the IP of 12.12.12.12.
It does not work.
I want to give an…
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Using wildcard does not resolve sub of subdomain
I have a domain xyz.com on (xx.xxx.255.25) and sub.xyz.com on (xx.xxx.255.240)
To resolve sub I added the following reocrd in BIND
sub IN A xx.xxx.255.240 *.sub IN A xx.xxx.255.240
and worked well, but the problem is…
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dns configuration with multiple subdomains and servers?
Will below configuration allow me to use one domain name (example.com) to access two VPSes hosted with the same provider (prod and dev)?
*.example.com IN A
*.dev.example.com IN A
Will this configuration…
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Why aren't my name servers updating?
I have had hundreds of domains over the years, and generally, the 24 to 48 hour rule applies. Sometimes even much quicker. I've learned that the registrar you use affects it a lot. GoDaddy usually takes minutes, whereas hostgator generally takes 24…
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CNAME for redirected Subdomain
I have a domain domain.com where an A record for my-sub is set and a 301 redirect for my-sub.domain.com to my-sub.notmydomain.com. Now I got an information to set a new CNAME for my-sub.domain.com with name and value which look examplarily as…
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A record showing wrong IP address on DNS lookup for my domain name
Hi I have registered a domain qualebs.com on godaddy.com
It has been working well for 2years now. Today I made a payment for its renewal. Since then I have not been able to access my website. Any attempt leaves me with the dreaded vague godaddy…
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How to point external domain to a subdomain?
I have the domain example.com and have set up the Ubuntu Apache server in a way that it points any subdomain to a directory with the same name.
ServerAlias *.example.com
VirtualDocumentRoot…
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Point my Domain to another Domain's sub-domain
I am developing an application which process is like below:
User do registration
System will create a sub-domain as the username registered.
i.e : xyz.abc.com
User will build his webpage under this sub-domain (xyz.abc.com)
if user got a domain…
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Use my home server dns for my domain
I purchased a domain name from a hosting website. I do not want to use their dns management (A records, CNAME etc). I want to configure DNS on my home server. How should I use my configured DNS on home server for my purchased domain?
Once this is…
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What's an "empty" DNS A record?
I know it's not possible an A record to be empty, but what's a good "null" value I can set until I get a machine for the domain? Someone suggested putting localhost in the A record. Is it ok to do that?
My goal is that I don't want to expose the…
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DNS record for thousand domains
I'm working at a small webhosting company. I have to set up the autoconfig (Thunderbird) and autodicover (Outlook) files, so that user (who have their own domain names, like www.userxyz.com) could set up their Email account in Outlook or Thunderbird…
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How can I avoid having to tell my clients to modify their domains' DNS settings?
My web application requires that clients point their A records for their domains to an IP address that I tell them to point them too. Later, when I need to scale from 2 servers that I currently have to 4 or 8 servers, how can I avoid having to have…
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Can a www.subdomain.host.com a record work
Can a www.subdomain.host.com, A record work in the DNS entry?
I have never seen it before.
It seems to be a double subdomain.
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CNAME set, but ignored. How to purge wrong DNS A record?
I have configured a subdomain blog.example.net with dreamhost like this
blog CNAME mygreatblog.ghost.io
meaning blog.example.net points to mygreatblog.ghost.io via a CNAME record.
I can confirm the properly set CNAME…
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