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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Active Directory - Identical Forward Lookup Zones

If my FQDN is ad.domain.com . Can i create a new forward lookup zone named domain.com to create subdomains like www. or mail. ? Or would that basically destroy my AD because the DNS Server tries to resolve ad. as a subdomain to the lookup zone…
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How to append a domain to a PTR resolution?

I have a bind9 server authoritative for my domain example.com. Forward resolution works, PTRs as well up to a point. I currently have 254.10.10 IN PTR srv. in my PTR zone for 10.x, which correctly resolves to root@srv ~# dig -x…
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Windows Server Domain Controller doesn't forward DNS queries from client

I have a virtual network set up with VirtualBox. I have two Windows Server 2012 R2 hosts, named DC01 and EX01. DC01 is a Domain Controller,DNS server and Router; EX01 is a DNS client and joined in the domain Jonas.Aalst. Here is an overview of the…
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PowerDNS different DNSSEC signatures on slaves

I'm running PowerDNS 4.0.0a2 on Ubuntu 16.04 on a master and four slaves. All machines are using mysql backend on mariadb. All slaves are set up with mysql replication against the master which synchronizes data fine. Creating DNSSEC on a zone is…
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BIND9 nsupdate apex domain

I've got a BIND zone like this example.com There's a following A Record: @ --> destination IP Now I want to update this record with, nsupdate. Can I just call update delete @ and then update add @ A new IP. Or is this not possiboe with @…
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Webmin Bind - Avoiding "service named reload" to transfer data to slave DNS

I've configured a dns and slave service using bind which works as expected. More recently I've set up Webmin so that I can use the GUI to update zone files. I am able to update the zone files, and increment the serial number automatically within…
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How to set DNS to my IP and port - Atlantic.Net

I'm new to host my ruby on rails application on the server. I have bought a server from Atlantic.Net and running my project on a port let's say port-3001. Now I'm unable to set my domain to my IP and a specified port. Please suggest anyone what and…
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Is it possible for DNS to pass to another DNS?

I have a domain - mydomain.com - and I would like to use Linode for my DNS service so I have full control over any subdomains and MX records I might need. Linode DNS servers: ns1.linode.com ns2.linode.com ... ns5.linode.com I have recently signed…
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Domain Admins not able to registerdns while Local Admin is

To register dns we run ipconfig /registerdns, as I understand the user should have Administrative privileges to run the above command in an elevated prompt. So when I run registerdns with LocalAdmin account it works fine but when I run it with…
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Bind DNS Forwarder With Delegated Sub Domain

I currently have my Bind DNS server set up to query from root servers and I have an Active Directory sub domain delegated in my DNS settings. My named.conf.options currently looks like this: acl internals { 172.16.0.0/12; 192.168.0.0/16;…
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change TTL on SOA with dnscmd

Hi i'm using dnsmcd command on my windows server 2012 in order to create new zones from csv file. But i need to change TTL on SOA record so i try to do this: dnscmd /recordadd example.com `@ 300 SOA but i've this error : Command failed: …
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Bind error. not loaded due to errors

I don't what happend. I am very new to DNS and Bind. I am getting below error: [root@centos-abcd~]# sudo named-checkzone abcd.abcd.pw /etc/named/zones/db.abcd.abcd.pw /etc/named/zones/db.abcd.abcd.pw:4: ignoring out-of-zone data…
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environment host urls convention and using wildcard DNS

we're setting up new hosts and environment servers on our company... creating 3 server instances... dev, stage, production we've multiple clients and multiple projects per client so this is our…
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opening everything for forward only zone centos

We have a forward only server, which has forward lookup zones and no self-awareness (to resolve any name other than the zone file records). This setup was created for the clients to restrict the access on any sites other than what we want them to…
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DNS - public address for local zone

I am facing an issue I don't quite know how to solve it. So I have two internal dns servers, let's say dns1 and dns2. They serve a zone let's say z1.mydomain.com - and internally everything is working out fine. Also, mydomain.com has a public DNS…