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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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GlobalNames Zone on Bind DNS server

Is it possible to set up a GlobalNames zone using Bind DNS? I'd like to be able to create an internal zone that responds to single lable names ie. http://intranet , or http://nas , rather than using a local zone or FQDN eg. http://intranet.local or…
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Setup multiple VPS with single domain name and two set of nameservers (glue records)

I am stuck in a bit complicated situation(complicated for me, might not be for you). What I have: I have 2 virtual private servers on two different IPs eg. 192.0.0.1, 192.0.0.2(let's name these vps1 and vps2) and one domain name eg. foo.com. What I…
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Zone transfer from KNOT (master) to BIND (slave) fails with NAUTH

There is a KNOT DNS master name server that I do not manage myself for my domain. I try to setup a BIND DNS server as a slave in-house. BIND fails to do the zone transfer and reports 31-Dec-2017 16:19:02.503 zone whka.de/IN: Transfer…
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Cname to replace namesever change

I'm using Cloudflare and they want me to change my nameserver from ns1.mydomain.com to ns1.lamedomain.com Can I use a cname record to keep ns1.mydomain.com or should I use "A" record and link to the IP of ns1.lamedomain.com? please give me an…
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Main and separate mail server with one zone file?

The setup is one main server (domain.tld) with an online shop and exim4 to send mails and a second server (mail.domain.tld) dedicated to the company mails. The DNS right now looks somewhat like this: @ IN NS nameserver1 @…
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Public AND Private Authoritative DNS Servers

Re this setup: My Public Authoritative DNS Server at : example.com. A foo.bar.example.com. TXT "Hello World" My Private Authoritative DNS Server at 192.168.0.2: foo.bar.example.com. A …
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Which name is better for Virtual Host files on Nginx and Apache?

My main site is accessed by the address www.example.com, so should by my nginx virtual host file named as www.example.com and not example.com to avoid searches of the server_name variable www in others blocks of virtual host files? The same thing…
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www URL loading incorrect SSL certificate

I have an issue with two sites that are running on the same IP address. One as a virtual host. The issue is one of the sites loads correctly if you use the non-www address mountainx.com but if you go to the www address www.mountainx.com it tries to…
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Inconsistent Glue Records

We've picked up a number of issues on mxtoolbox and various other online DNS tools that we have inconsistent glue records. In particular, it appears that the glue records setup at the TLD (.host in this case) has glue records setup for our 4…
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Error while running powershell script to back up DNS Zones

I have this script that I am trying to run, that I hope will back up DNS zones. I am attempting to export this information into a csv file using the export-csv powershell cmdlet. Finally, I use use the dnscmd.exe command to export zones information…
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Slave DNS server is Open Zone Transfer

My secondary authoritative DNS server (centos 7 - bind 9.9 hosted in Microsoft Azure) is marked as Open Zone Transfer... although I've added the line "recursion no" in /etc/named.conf: This is my options section in the server's named.conf…
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Why is their no trailing dot for the zone name in a named.conf BIND config file?

When specifying the $ORIGIN directive in a DNS zone file if what you are specifying is a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) then by definition it should end in a trailing dot (for example $ORIGIN example.com. instead of $ORIGIN example.com). That…
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An easy way to update Google Cloud DNS record with HTTP request

Is there a simple way to update a record of a managed zone in the Google Cloud DNS Platform, by means of something like an HTTP request. Some of the DNS providers allow for HTTP requests to be submitted with the record name, new record data and…
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SSL Certificate for domains we do not own

We have a cloud based SaaS multi-tenancy system. AKA: the platform. The platform provides the service to our customers by allowing their end users to perform some work. To give an example, imagine we have a blogging service we sell to companies and…
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Windows Server DNS resolve primary zone to IP

I have some local host names in format: dev-some-site-name I need to setup DNS server (on Windows Server 2012 R2) so this names can be resolved on multiple virtual machines - i don't want to use hosts file. So far I've done this: Setup primary DNS…
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