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Questions tagged [a-record]

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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GSuite: "There should not be a mail exchanger set up on naked domain name"

I checked my domain name with GSuite's MX tool to find out why our email gets to Spam folders, and have resolved the main issues (SPF and DKIM entries were missing in our DNS settings). The last problem is this: "There should not be a mail…
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Using www.example.com as the A record

I want example.com and *.example.com to always resolve to www.example.com So if I set the DNS records as: www A server ip (root) CNAME www.example.com * CNAME www.example.com Would these be the correct settings to…
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Best way to migrate domain to new IP

I have a website that has around 50-70k daily traffic. I am mostly interested in with software and a little bit hardware. I would like to hear professionals thought about migration. I am going to switch my ISP, since I am switching my ISP I will…
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Different records at different Nameservers

At my domains registrar I have set up two name servers. They look like this: NS1: xx123456.ip-11-111-111.eu. NS2: ns1.XX.net. I know that first one is quite strange but I cannot do anything about it. On hosting provider that owns those name servers…
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Allowing stale DNS results

Is there any method of allowing stale DNS results to be returned? By stale, I mean, where the TTL has expired, but no new record can be obtained, likely due to the nameserver being unavailable. To my knowledge, at least bind 9 doesn't have any…
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Why does my domain have A records for two IP addresses, when I only have one server with one static IP?

Background So, I am using namecheap as my registrar for a domain I'm moving from an old webhost to a VPS server with a different host. I initially had a lot of problems with name resolution (had a correct A record but no resolution after 3 or 4…
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How do I get all IPs that a single Amazon Route 53 A Record entry is pointing to?

I am using Amazon's Route 53 to set up zones for a domain. I have multiple A Records set up as an Alias to a bunch of targets. These aliases have a Weighted routing policy. They look something as follows: A foo.mydomain.com ALIAS…
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Wildcard CNAME DNS records overriding specific A DNS records on one provider

Ran into a weird issue where a wildcard CNAME record (i.e. *.example.com) was overriding specific A records (i.e. host1.example.com, host2.example.com). It only affected Verizon Wireless's nameservers. The authoritative nameservers are controlled…
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Domain A record on active directory controller

Currently we have an Active Directory setup for a small network running on Debian 8 and Samba 4. At one point we had to change the ip address of the AD server from 100.0.0.4 to 100.0.0.100. I edited: /etc/network/interfaces …
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Is a CNAME sufficient for a www. record?

I have been doing a server migration, and checking that everything related to DNS is configured correctly by using IntoDNS. After doing this though, it flags up a error saying that there is no A record for WWW. The website is working fine, and I…
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Do I need "A record" for AWS ELB while I set up CNAME?

I register the domain through GoDaddy. And now i have a AWS EC2 server behind a ELB. I read the document from AWS about setting up the CNAME. which I did. www CNAME elb.aws.address while my A Record is pointing to my EC2's EIP ip address.…
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Why use CNAME in Route 53+S3 combination

I have been going through Amazon's docs on using Route 53 in conjunction with S3 to serve static websites. The strategy they show is to do: example.com A -> alias to s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com (example.com bucket) www.example.com CNAME ->…
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Main domain to one server and all subdomains to another server

I'm looking to host my main domain in Server1 eg: example.com. And host all subdomain's in another server Server2. I will be creating subdomain's dynamically. eg: dynamic_subdomain.example.com I know how to handle dynamic subdomain's. I only want to…
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NameServer vs DNS A-record

I have a domain nomadapp.in which is registered at GoDaddy. For temp hosting i was using Dreamhost and had changed the NameServer in Godaddy to the ones of DreamHost. Now i want to do the Following Point http://nomadapp.in --> AWS…
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I want to point a domain name to my server, without changing any MX Records etc - do I change the A Records, the NS Records, or both?

My client has a domain name clientsdomain.com, with DNS records set out as such: Lookup has started… Trying "clientsdomain.com" ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21301 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0,…
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