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How to push my own DNS server to OpenVPN?

I have defined an unbound DNS server on my VPS and it appears to work. I need to use the DNS server instead of public DNS servers because some ISPs have blocked public DNS IPs. My openvpn.conf file is: dev tun proto tcp # Notice: here I…
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How is a single IP address load balanced?

I'm aware of "round robin DNS" load balancing, but how can a single IP address be load balanced? Google's DNS servers for example, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Wikipedia's load balancing article states: For Internet services, the load balancer is usually…
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How to configure email autoconfiguration for a domain?

Outlook and a number of other email clients now feature autodiscovery of mail server settings and it bugs me that I don't have this set up for our domains, but I'm not sure how to do it and a quick google hasn't turned up anything. I presume it's…
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Will SRV records ever become useful?

In DNS an SRV record really is a pretty generic form of telling a remote client where a specific service is hosted. At this moment I use it for allowing people to call me using a SIP client over the internet (works quite nicely). One of the…
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Why send authoritative nameserver in DNS?

Out of curiosity, I'm checking the Wireshark DNS packets. I can see that there's a DNS query from the host, and then DNS response from the DNS server. Everything is just as expected. However, if you further check in the query, you can see that the…
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Openvpn client, force DNS server

Our Linux Ubuntu configuration does have a DNS server (Bind 9). And resolv.conf has its nameserver 127.0.0.1 When using openvpn client on that Linux, the nameserver is not changed (by the VPN server) but I would like to set it - only during the…
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Small issue with the Domain Name System (DNS) Server Cmdlets

I'm wondering if I need to clear some cache or something with the issue I'm having. I'm trying to remove A records from a DNS Zone and replacing them with a CName record that has the same host name. Remove-DnsServerResourceRecord -Zonename $line…
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Can I have my DNS server and my web server on the same IP?

I just bought a raspberry pi and made it a web server. I have a network with 1 IP. I created a DMZ and I am able to access my raspberry pi web server from the internet. I bought a domain that I intend to use for my web site but I found that I need…
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Windows DNS Server register a non **DHCP** client (server) into 2008R2

We have Linux boxes with static IP, some using Centos and other Debian, using IP ranges reserved for development and testing. We need this boxes to 'publish' their DNS into DNS Server 2008R2, without administrator nor manual intervention. …
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Windows 2012 DNS server phase out

I've got a network with 3 AD servers that also run the DNS service. We've got a project on to migrate from Windows DNS to a new turnkey DDI solution. I'm going through everything I can think of and manually changing its DNS client configuration to…
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bind9 configure forward zone for local domain without DNSSEC for this zone only

I have a working DNS server for local domain mydomain.local. I am trying to configure bind9 to work in default configuration, except for this zone, for which I want to forward queries to local DNS server. Here's config I have (ubuntu…
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The DNS server machine currently has no DNS domain name

I found the following message inside the DNS Server Event logs. What I should do has been explained inside the message but not sure what exactly it means. Log Name: DNS Server Source: Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Server-Service Date: …
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Setting up authorative DNS nameserver with PfSense?

I am trying to run point a domain at my pfsense server and have it run a DNS server which is authorative. So I installed TinyDNS. Ok, so I setup a rule in pf. The rule is TCP/UDP. Source interface is WAN, source address is *, destination address is…
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Best way to implement secondary DNS server with BIND

I have one DNS server that installed on centOS and based on BIND DNS server. What i want to do is to make a secondary DNS server that will replicate with the master server and will hold all my zones records and also i need that this server will act…
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Can I create a DC without a DNS Server?

So as the title says, I need to promote a standalone Win2008R2 server to a Domain Controller, and I don't a DNS Server (I think), as there will be no clients connected to the domain, it will be only used for Remote Desktop Services. Yes, I know,…
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