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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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DNS: Zone file for experimental / private RR Type

I'm experimenting with a new RR Type for DNS records. The DNS standard allows this, as long as you use a RR TYPE in the range 65,xxx. Dig supports this, by specifying type to be TYPE65xxxx. But I can't figure out how to have Bind parse and serve…
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Using static records in dynamic zone with Samba and BIND_DLZ

I've deployed Samba4 as AD controller using BIND_DLZ as a backend. It works ok. Now I have a bunch of servers with static IP's, and I would like to resolve them, but I can't find a way to do this. So I googled for a few days, and didn't find…
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Injecting DNS records for a domain on your DNS server for local domain clients

I have a Microsoft DNS server setup and running for my local domain (mydomain.local). I have set up a public domain since then (mydomain.com) and want all my local clients to have different A hosts for mydomain.com while they are on the local…
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Reverse DNS error

Today I changed my DNS and nameservers to Cloudflare. After that, pingdom gave some strange DNS errors. I searched the internet but couldn't find a solution. The errors are: Could not find reverse address for 64.233.162.26…
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WS 2012 r2 DNS server issue: Access was denied

I have a Windows Server 2012 r2 virtual machine as DC1 and DNS server running on Windows Azure and a Windows Server 2012 r2 local machine as DC2, DHCP and DNS server on-premise. I found my DNS server on both DNS servers are not running. When I start…
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Webmin: write "short" records to zone file?

I'm using webmin to manage BIND DNS zones which until now have been managed manually. When I add a new record in webmin (A or CNAME) it's writing the FQDN (host + zone) into the zone file. While this is not breaking anything, it's adding a lot of…
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Mapping unknown subdomains to single point in zone file with DNAME

I've found that I can edit zone file like this $ORIGIN us.example.com. @ IN DNAME another.example.com. But what if I do not know all subdomains in advance, is it possible to do something like that: $ORIGIN *.example.com. @ …
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Reverse zone not working with BIND9

I'm trying to configure a DNS server in UBUNTU 12.04 with BIND9 service.I'm able to successfully configure the same and the when I'm executing nslookup command it works well.However,the host command seems to be not working which will execute the…
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Bind/Named DNS server on ISPConfig sometimes working

I have Installed preconfigured system with ISPConfig panel on VPS server. When I create DNS zones and configure them, server work for some time then for some time timeouts and global dns (like 8.8.8.8) lose records and domain in unreachable…
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DNS subdomain linking to service on port 5000

My website is running on AWS EC2 on /var/www/html on port 5000. I would like to create a DNS A Zone test.example.com linked to that website. On the domain page I can only add the IP, not the port, so test.example.com:5000 works, but test.example.com…
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DNS Zones: criteria to create new zone delegations

If I'm not wrong, within a domain name a company owns, their administrators have complete freedom to create as many cuts (zone delegations) inside the domain tree as he wants, but, inside his own freedom, when it is good time for creating new…
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My reverse zone doesn't work

I'm trying to configure my reverse zones on Centos server. I've read many articles and it looks like I'm doing everything right and don't know what to check or fix next. The following is a part of my named.conf. My domain mobz.ca points to…
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NS list does not match list from parent zone

I'm attempting to figure out an error message that I got from dnsstuff.com when examining my DNS records. The error reads as follows. NS list does not match list from parent zone. This should be addressed because queries for this domain may…
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PTR record created, but not found

We are a small ISP, using linux DNS servers. Recently a client has asked us to create a rDNS zone for a specific IP address, which is used for a mail server. They keep getting message failures for some emails due to lack of PTR records and valid…
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MX lookup failed

This is a part of my dns-zone file: ;; MX Records mx.domain.de. 300 IN MX 1 direct.domain.de. ;; CNAME Records www.domain.de. 300 IN CNAME domain.de. mail.domain.de. 300 IN CNAME domain.de. direct.domain.de. 300 IN CNAME …
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