A DNS server that owns the main copy of zone records it serves including the Start of Authority (SOA) record is attributed with "authoritative". The same attribute is used for denoting the responses received from a server qualified as authoritative for a given zone by calling it as an "Authoritative Response".
Questions tagged [authoritative]
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What is the difference between Authoritative Nameserver and Recursive Resolver?
I am new to networking and all this DNS thing.
I have the following questions
What is an Authoritative Nameserver ?
What is a Recursive Resolver ?
Please help/ guide me out on this.
I have read Authoritative Nameserver, but I was not able to…
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Expose internal route53 DNS over VPN to on-premise ActiveDirectory
The situation
We are migration our web-applications to AWS. To connect our on-premise network and AWS we have created a VPN connection. This works without problems.
On-premise we have a MS AD (2008 R2) that is an authoritative server for (among…
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Why are there always at least two authoritative name servers for a registered domain?
I see that almost all registered domains have at least two authoritative name servers configured (and for most of them, exactly two), and that using two servers provides redundancy against any kind of server failure. Technically there's no…
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Running dnsmasq as an authoritative DNS server
I am trying to implement a dynamic dns service for my computers. I have pointed h.lohray.com to my EC2 instance in the NS record of lohray.com and have installed dnsmasq on that system and have made sure to unblock the firewall port.
For now, I have…
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Can't configure ADDITIONAL section in a BIND 9.8 authoritative DNS server
Glue records are supposed to be configured in the registrar when the DNS server hostname belongs to the same domain.
It is not exactly my case because I am setting up the DNS server for a domain 'example.com' while the name servers can be resolved…
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How to directly query authoritative DNS nameserver from command line, bypassing cached servers?
How can I directly query authoritative DNS nameserver from Linux and Mac OS X command line, bypassing cached servers?
This is helpful when wanting to immediately verify newly-created DNS host names on the authoritative server, and not wanting to…
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Why would delegated nameservers ever be different to authoritative nameservers?
If you go on intodns.com and type in stackoverflow.com, the parent server tells me that nameservers for the domain are here:
ns1.serverfault.com. ['198.252.206.80'] [TTL=172800]
ns3.serverfault.com. ['69.59.196.217'] [TTL=172800] …
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Moving a Registered Authoritative Nameserver to Another Server
We had a colo server and registered a domain for it. When we did that we had to provide the name and the IP address of the nameservers (pointing to the server) as the nameserver names were within that domain (let's call them ns.example.com and…
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Need help configuring BIND on Pfsense as an authoritative DNS Server
For a few weeks now I've tried configuring BIND Server on my Pfsense Router as an authoritative DNS Server.
I own a domain bought from RoTLD, I've set my nameservers to my external static ip, and they have had enough time to propagate. Problem is…
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Advice on DNS good practice for LAN and public queries with DNSDist / recursor / powerdns
I am setting up a cluster of DNS that are soon going to reply to both LAN clients and public internet queries. On the internet is a special network (XX.YY.ZZ.AA/26) that I need to reply differently when querying the public zone ext.net
I tried to…
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Monitoring self-hosted DNS, counting DNS requests in a time period
I have a self-hosted authoritative DNS server, using MaraDNS. We're having smaller periods of unresponsiveness during peak times. I'm guessing because of this it has to do with MaraDNS not having enough resources.
I want to monitor how many DNS…
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Differing Internal vs External MX records
The setup:
The business runs an internal DNS server not accessible to the public internet. The business's domain is registered with a registrar and the authoritative name servers outside the local network. The local DNS server does not have MX…
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Windows 2012 R2 Authorative DNS Server returns root hints
I have a non domain joined authoritative dns server for a zone, I've disabled dns recursion in server settings. When i do a query with dig @ns1.mydomain.tld . it returns the root hints.
I've read that its possible to create a new primary zone named…
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Multiple nameservers, how do they work when they can't resolve a query?
I have 4 nameserver set for my domain: ns1.nameserver.com, ns2.nameserver.com, ect...
I know that if one is down an other one will be used. But if the first is up and running and is asked for a domain it doesn't know, will the request be passed to a…
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Help setting up a secondary authoritative DNS server
We have three Authoritative DNS servers and three recursive/caching DNS servers on my campus.
Authoritative servers
DNS1- Windows 2003
DNS2- Old Red Hat -----> Replacing w/ newer version
DNS3- Windows 2008 (I installed)
Caching and Recursive…
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