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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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named/bind is refusing to serve some domains after resolving them itself

Why is bind refusing some of my queries? This only happens for certain domains. A query through named fails: $ dig -t A fedoraproject.org @127.0.0.1 ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 33117 $ journalctl -n10 ... Aug 01 17:07:11…
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How to configure a DNS server by YAST2

I run these commands to install DNS server dependencies on openSUSE Tumbleweed: sudo zypper in -t pattern dhcp_dns_server sudo systemctl enable named.service sudo systemctl start named.service To configure the DNS server, I'm trying YAST2 following…
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Nameserver invalid warning from an intoDNS.com test

I made my own nameserver configuration, but as you can see in the picture and the intodns.com link, I am getting a (hostname) warning. WARNING: At least one of your NS name does not seem a valid host name The ones that do not seem…
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Google Cloud DNS - Subdomains wildcard not working

I got one domain example.com on app engine. All subdomains a.example.com, b.example.com, c.example.com... have to point on example.com. I'm configuring everything from Cloud DNS of Google Cloud, my configuration is like that: *.example.com. CNAME …
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What is the DNS lookup sequence if both CNAME and A record exist?

If we set an A record and a CNAME record for the same sub-domain, how is the DNS lookup done? For example, A record: example.com => xx.xx.xx.xx www.example.com => xx.xx.xx.xx CNAME record: www. => example.com When resolving www.example.com, does…
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How to route both www and apex level domains via a CNAME using AWS Route 53?

I am hosting an Elixir application using Gigalixir (a PaaS like Heroku). For custom domains, it asks you to add a CNAME record to point to their custom DNS domain, e.g. www.example.com.gigalixirdns.com. -- this works great for the www version of…
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Reverse DNS record is not recognized

I have a problem creating a reverse DNS record. First of all, I have created a new zone. IP was aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd and Domain was ccc.bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa. Second, I have edited the just created zone and I added a PTR record:ddd IN PTR domain.com, TTL…
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Need to point WWW to another ip without impacting mail delivery

I have a client domain.com and on his DNS zone there is: @ A 50.50.50.50 www CNAME domain.com @ MX domain.com Is it possible to change the WWW to WWW A 200.200.200.200 And in the HTML site of 50.50.50.50 I just do an HTML REDIRECT to…
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Does the Glue record get cached by the Recursive resolver?

Does the IP address of authoritative name server from Glue record get cached by the Recursive resolver? The name server for a top level domain includes glue along with the delegation for a domain name. Now, does the Recursive resolver cache this…
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Difficulty removing website from AWS services

Designing a website for a client and taking over from previous guy who set it all up in AWS. I’m not familiar and the learning curve is steep. The last few days I’m getting a 504 gateway problem and the website is broken. So, bought new traditional…
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How to create local DNS zone in BIND?

Can anyone help me regarding a BIND9 recursive DNS server? The server is functioning correctly in relation to recursion. I need to create a local, static ZONE entry for a given host. No inbound working like this: local-zone: "domain.name." static …
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DNS Zone Info - Old Info Failed to Update with Nameserver Switch

Is the DNS Zone info determined by (or stored at) the host server or the registrar? I just had a DNS zone issue where some of the old host's manually-updated DNS Zone info was carried through (or failed to update accordingly) after a nameserver…
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How to concatenate DNS TXT records?

Google Search Console is asking me to add a TXT record to my domain name, like google-site-verification=EQZs1xbCh8hu90LwVGhWEcYUYCGH6BDSBE68 But I already have a TXT record for SPF like v=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:68.66.123.12 include:spf.myhosting.com…
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How to properly set-up ou DNS Zone delegation for the "_acme-challenge" subdomain?

We have hard times setting up a DNS Zone Delegation for one of our subdomains. We have one DNS record "_acme-challenge" that will change frequently, and this DNS record is defined directly on our server, which acts as a SECONDARY Name Server only…
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Does DNS 'A' record cover emails too?

In my DNS configuration I've got Name Type TTL Value gest A 1800 12.34.56.789 Does it mean that every emails sent to @gest.mydomain.com will be handled by a mail server (if any) on 12.34.56.789 ?
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