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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 i store A record of my second level domain directly in TLD zone file (com. for example)?

Can be A record for third-level domain stored directly in TLD zone file, not delegating zone of subdomain with NS record? What about CNAME record for 2nd domain?
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DNS RPZ zone queries are being "refused"

I am testing out the BIND Response Policy Zone feature on our lab DNS server. We run a RHEL 6 server with BIND 9.8.2. I have followed the instructions here but I can't get it to work. Here is what I know: 1) The DNS server DOES respond to queries…
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DNS mail record concatenates IP address and hostname together

I have the following BIND zone file pointing the webserver to yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy and the nameservers and mail server to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: $TTL 300 @ 86400 IN SOA ns1.domain.com. admin.gmail.com. ( 2016012708 ;…
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Remove DS Records from Parent Zone

We transferred a .se domain to GoDaddy from a small Swedish registrar. It turns out the original domain has DNSSEC setup and the DS records were never removed from the parent zone when it was transferred (and no DNSKEY records were setup on…
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Google Cloud Server Email Forwarding

I have a Google Cloud server with Cloud DNS working for my domain and IIS hosted website. I need email for my domain to be forwarded, i.e. for john@myCloudServerDomain.com to go to my existing account john@gmail.com. I tried putting an MX record in…
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Fast switching CNAME

Is it possible to make CNAME's switch it's data every minute (or possibly even shorter) ? I'm currently trying to make something that changes my CNAME every minute but i have no idea if this is even possible. So far i have tried different values for…
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DNS Server- subdomains on internal LAN and www on public IP

I have a Windows 2008R2 based domain controller also working as internal DNS server for my domain say "domain1.com". I also have a working website www.domain2.com hosted elsewhere and accessible globally. Now I am creating a test environment on my…
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Windows Server 2012 using wrong IP address for replication

Is there a way to manually set what IP address/DNS record AD will use when replicating? I have a "network within a network" (NWaN) setup which spans across two remote locations-- so there's one NWaN at Site A, then there's an IPsec tunnel connecting…
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NETAPP - Enable on-box DNS load balancing in an Active Directory environment

I have a NetApp Data Ontap 8.3 SP1 with 4 LIF. LIF1 - 192.168.0.1 LIF2 - 192.168.0.2 LIF3 - 192.168.0.3 LIF3 - 192.168.0.4 There is a SVM, configured as NAPP0 and joined to an Active Directory domain( ad-domain.local) associated to LIF1 and in…
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Zone configuration not working

I have these 3 files to configure a zone : /etc/named.conf zone "exemple.tn" IN { type master; file "/var/named/db.exemple.tn"; allow-update {none;}; }; zone "85.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { type master ; file "/var/named/db.cba.tn" ; allow-update…
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Is it possible to split a domain using dns Bind9

I have a domain (example.com) that the hosts are split in several different networks/places. Most of these hosts are hosted in our office. What i am trying to do is configure a zone that resolves internally these hosts (eg1.example.com,…
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MaraDNS zone transfers

When attempting to do a zone transfer with MaraDNS 2.0.13, I'm getting the following in the logs: Sep 29 00:50:24 ns1 maradns.etc_maradns_mararc: Log: Message received, processing
Sep 29 00:50:24 ns1 maradns.etc_maradns_mararc: Query from:…
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multiple ptr record in bind

I'm running some small ISP here and I own couple of IP ranges. I have given a few public IP addresses to some of my customer and they are running mail servers on them. They have demanded me to add reverse DNS entries (PTR) for their IPs. I have…
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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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Problems with DNS

I'm in charge of the admin of the VPS of the company I'm working. Basically, those VPS host our websites and also serve as name servers for the domain names we purchased. To manage all this, I'm using ISPConfig 3 on Linux debian Wheezy machines. The…
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