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Questions tagged [dns-zone]

"A DNS zone is a portion of a domain name space using the Domain Name System (DNS) for which administrative responsibility has been delegated." (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Questions dealt with "zone" deal with administration and configuration of so-called DNS-zones.

Wikipedia explains the two terms:

DNS refers to the Domain Name System, a hierarchical distributed naming system networked entitities such as computers.

A DNS zone is a portion of a domain name space using the DNS for which administrative responsibility has been delegated.

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Can someone using the same DNS server as me hijack my domains?

When I register a new domain, I send it to my hosting provider by assigning it its domain name servers in the registar's settings. For example, with Digital Ocean, I input the…
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Do I need a separate SSL certificate for a DNS redirect?

I am implementing a multi-tenant application where my application hosts and serves technical documentation for a tenant's product. Now, the approach that I was considering was - I host the documentation at docs..mycompany.com and ask my…
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Clarification of why DNS zone files require NS records

This question was originally asked here: Why do DNS zone files require NS records? To summarise: "When I go to my registrar and purchase example.com , I will tell my registrar that my nameservers are ns1.example.org and ns2.example.org". But please…
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Find out which DNS server answered your query

I have a seemingly simple question but couldn't find the answer to precisely that question after some search: I know that, if I want to look up the IP address of some domain name, I type, for example: nslookup google.de and get Server: …
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Should engineering have its own DNS zone, delegate, or subdomain?

We have our organization's primary domain (with AD) example.com. In the past, previous admins have created several other zones - such as dmn.com, lab.example.com, dmn-geo.com etc - as well as subdomains and delegates all of which are for different…
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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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Changing A record and CNAME records

Currently I'm using a LAMP configuration for both my landing page page, for the web app, and for the APIs. Now I'd like to split these things across multiple Virtual Servers (VS). I'm unsure of the network settings and before messing up all my DNS…
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How can I manage all of my domains with minimal configuration?

This is a Canonical Question about DNS server administration. I have one hundred or so domains. All of these domains need to be configured identically, but it seems like a huge waste of time to have to configure a new zone and/or zonefile for…
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Does a multi-level hostname makes a practical difference?

The A record for hello.world.example.com can be registered as the hello entry in the domain world.example.com or as the hello.world entry in the domain example.com Is there a practical difference, from the perspective of the services which…
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Automatically sync all zones between BIND 9

Is there a way to automatically synchronize all zones between BIND (9) servers so that I don't have to add zones to the slave when I add them to the master?
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BIND/DNS Zone meaning of "IN"

I have been reading http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-bind-zone.html but the document raised a question. What is the meaning of IN? Is it just a class which is optional or does it mean more than that? (Yes I read that in…
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Bind zone transfer refused

UPDATE: BIND Version: [root@10.224.45.130] $ named -v BIND 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 Operating System: CentOS release 5.6 (Final) After running [root@10.224.45.131] $ dig @10.224.45.130 example.com. axfr: Slave: ; <<>> DiG…
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What these strange TXT records in my default OVH DNS config mean

Can somebody tell me please, what this TXT records means? www IN TXT "l|pt" www IN TXT "3|welcome" these 2 TXT records appears when i reset my DNS zone configuration, in every my domain.
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How to set SOA Expire Value?

I ran my domain through intoDNS and the report returned a warning saying Your SOA EXPIRE number is: 3600000. That is NOT OK So I've been looking to change the value ever since. You wouldn't believe it but I couldn't find one place that tells where…
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Missing nameservers reported by parent and your nameservers

I've been going at this for a few days now and neither previous hosting company nor current one seem to be able to help me sort this out. I am migrating an opencart-based online shop between two servers and there seems to be some DNS trouble. I have…
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