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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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Moving many sites to new server - whats the quickest way to update their DNS records?

I'm planning on migrating a large-ish amount of websites (approx 100) to a new server and I'm in the migration planning process. A typical DNS zone for each website has two A records pointing to the web server IP, one for example.com and one for the…
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Is there a standard time duration before DNS caches are cleared?

Is there a standard time duration before DNS caches are cleared, so that if a distracted operator or stuck key turns a TTL of 86400 into 864000000 you don't end up with an authoritative resource record or even entire DNS zone whose changes won't be…
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Is it possible to combine DNS name servers?

Question: Is it possible to combine DNS name servers? For this example lets say that I lease the domain example.com through a service (godaddy, name.com, etc) I have the option of pointing this domain and all it's records to a different nameserver…
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How do I change reverse DNS on Google Cloud Compute?

How do I change reverse DNS on Google Cloud Compute? I want to add reverse DNS to Google Cloud Compute and can't figure out howto do it. I want to map 11.97.196.104.bc.googleusercontent.com to ns1.example.com…
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why bind9 gives connection refused for permission denied error when it is 777

These questions didn't help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/172030/how-to-allow-bind-in-app-armor Cannot start BIND9 I wanted to start bind9 and saw that it gives permission denied in syslog as below: Feb 8 09:37:24 aname named[27278]: automatic…
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DNS errors after changing nameservers for Cloudflare

I don't know if this is the right place for my question, but I have a problem with my DNS/nameservers after changing the nameservers. I'm not sure if it is a problem at my side or at my webhost. I updated the DNS Zone Records in the Control Panel of…
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No SOA record -- what are the implications?

I was investigating a bunch of spam domains, and none of them have an SOA record. I have never seen this before -- I didn't even know it was possible. How can DNS work without an SOA record? If it isn't strictly necessary, what are the implications…
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What is the syntax of email address with a dot behind it? in DNS zone file, SOA rr

How i can use a email address with a dot in behind. For example at bellow, email address is hostmaster@example.com, How to use host.master@example.com ? example.com. IN SOA ns.example.com. hostmaster.example.com. (...) I can not use…
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DNS synonyms: multiple zones, one zone file

I have a site with a bunch of synonym domains. The site itself accepts all the different domains, and redirects to the correct domain name. Is there any reason not to configure zones.conf like so: zone "correctdomain.com" { type master; file…
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Large AXFR through dnsmasq causes dig to hang with partial results

I'm attempting to set up dnsmasq as a local cache for consul. While this seems to work fine for normal digs, dnsmasq seems to only allow partial zone transfers. My resolv.conf: search x.domain.com y.domain.com z.domain.com domain.com nameserver…
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What RFC encourages DNS servers to reply REFUSED to queries for unknown domains?

This question is very very similar to RFC that requires DNS servers to respond to unknown domain requests but I figured I ought to ask it as a new question. It appears that it is standard practice for an authoritative DNS server to respond with…
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Setting sub domain DNS to route default port 80 to custom port

I have a subdomain let say work.example.com also I have a server with a public IP let say 192.0.2.4. I have an application on my server that running on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on port 8088, so this is became 192.0.2.4:8088. My question is, I want if user…
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Reverse DNS/bind named-checkzone "zone NS has no address records (A or AAAA) error"

This is my reverse dns file. $TTL 1D @ IN SOA dns.prv.server.co.uk. root.prv.server.co.uk. ( 2014090402 ; serial 3600 ; refresh …
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How to fully disable Dynamic DNS on Windows Server?

so we're a University campus, and in DNS Manager, all the students phones, tables, etc, are registering their A records in DNS. We don't want them to. Ideally, we'd just have domain joined devices registering/updating their DNS records. We've done…
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Setting different NS records as authoritative on authoritative DNS

I have DNS servers for a domain set to one set of authoritative DNS servers on the registrar. However, those DNS servers zone file for the domain have a different set of NS records for it. Some DNS servers are passing the request on merrily to the…
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