Questions tagged [dns-server]
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DNS: Zone TrustAnchors secondary servers must respond to queries for the zone
I'm trying to clear out every last error (and hopefully warnings as well) mentioned by BPA (Best Practices Analyzer) about my DNS server on Windows Server 2019 server.
Currently I have 1 error left:
DNS: Zone TrustAnchors secondary servers must…
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Evert
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Google Cloud A record issue with setting up CWP web panel
I have a VM deployed at google cloud.
Here is the google cloud setup.
grant-fullen.com. A 300 35.231.125.190
grant-fullen.com. NS 21600 …
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grant1842
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Order of external DNS servers on Router OS DNS Server
We have DNS server on our Mikrotik (RouterOS 6.36).
[admin@xxx] /ip dns> print
servers: 10.0.10.3,8.8.8.8
dynamic-servers:
allow-remote-requests: yes
max-udp-packet-size: 4096
query-server-timeout: 2s
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pagep
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Creating vanity nameservers without hosting DNS
We'd like to create our own vanity nameserver addresses to use with various domains that we host.
Our hosting provider gives us two options: use their nameserver addresses, or setup our own nameserver addresses and host our own DNS.
We don't want to…
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MrCarrot
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Is it possible for a Windows server to have 2 (or possibly more) network names (or aliases)?
I have a temporary need to consolidate 2 currently separate servers onto a single machine. I am considering using VMs, but it would be far less work if I could just have 2 different server names point to the same machine.
The services themselves…
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Scott Trotter
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Public domains and hosts resolving to 127.0.0.1
Our security systems are going crazy alerting us that hundreds of external DNS queries and responses are resolving to addresses like 127.0.0.1 and sometimes 0.0.0.0 to requests originating from our internal network.
Should I ignore this? Even…
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Missing SRV record at DNS server
Server 2008R2. 2003 functional level.
One of my branch DCs, which we will call BranchDC1, is not registering SRV records in example.com/_msdcs/gc/_sites/_tcp.
The DC is marked as a Global Catalog in Sites & Services.
C:\>dcdiag…
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Fersty
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unable to start the bind dns service in linux
observed following errors when try to start the dns service in virtual linux pc
[root@mininat ~]# service named status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status named.service
named.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS)
Loaded: loaded…
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Windows SBS 2011 Clients Randomly Unable to Access .co.uk Domains
We are a small office with 10 client PCs and one Windows SBS 2011 server acting as Domain Controller and Internet gateway. At random times client computers cannot access Internet hosts in the .co.uk domain (we are based in UK). We never have…
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Maharshi Raval
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What happens to DNS cache server when the zone DNS server fails?
I have DNS server running which caches for records from a main DNS server.
What would happen when the main DNS server is down? Will the cache DNS server still serve the records it has or will all the records in the cache server expire after TTL of…
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ravikishore
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DNS architecture sanity check
I'm designing DNS service for a network and had a few architecture questions. The O'Reilly/ Cricket Liu DNS book and the NIST DNS security guide don't address these questions except in a very general way.
Here is the proposed network, which has…
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PowerDNS does not resolve TXT records
My PowerDNS DNS server 3.3 does not resolve TXT records.
Database looks like this:
PowerDNS database
When I try to dig my server for TXT entry they are not being shown:
[root@nowosci powerdns]# dig @ns1.nowosci.org private._domainkey.nowosci.org…
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Local dns server acts unreliably
In our local subnetwork we have a domain server. It's a Windows Server 2008 R2.
It was configured by following this guide I think.
My main domain is wm.local. My server is domainserver.wm.local. My devices are dev1.wm.local, dev2.wm.local etc.
It…
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How do nameservers "failover"?
How do nameservers do failover? What decides the order in which nameservers are queried when the primary nameserver is not reachable?
To illustrate, here's part of my zonefile:
$TTL 3m;
site.com. IN SOA ns1.sitese.com. admin.site.com.…
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Joel G Mathew
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Host does not support SRV records, what are my options?
I need to use SRV records for multiple game servers that uses different ports in one machine. I read about SRV Records and it seems like it's what I need.
I asked the website host I am using and they do not support SRV Records. I also asked my…
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