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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 resolution of Pubilc registered FQDN to internal IP

Let´s assume i have a hostname app1.example.com. It´s registered in public DNS. Now I have a private DNS Zone called example.internal. I add an Host A entry for app1.example.com with an internal IP as the destination. Now i want that my internal…
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Prioritize local DNS suffix over public domain zone

We have two zones on our DNS-server: domain.com domain.local domain.com is publicly available and has sites and services on it, and resolves to 88.88.88.88 88.88.88.88 is a public IP for our NAT network 10.0.0.0 web-server which serves domain.com…
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DNSSEC I am not able to validate DNSKEY answer

Here is the answer I got for .com.my. DNSKEY: com.my. 3600 IN DNSKEY 257 3 8…
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Under which circumstances will the NS records at the apex of a zone be queried?

At what point do the NS records defined at the apex of a zone are queried during normal operations? From what I've researched these records are used by: DNS NOTIFY, for the master to signal slave servers to pull its SOA and update their zone files…
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BIND9 Sharing some domain records across views for a same domain

I have a design problem in my BIND configuration. I have 2 views with the same zone caen2018.com (splitted for 2 different LANs: CAEN & PARIS). In each zone I have DDNS record, but I want my DDNS record to be shared between CAEN LAN and PARIS LAN.…
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Powershell Get-DnsServerResourceRecord seemingly returning all name servers in every zone, not just for the one specified

I have to check and then potentially update up to 400 zone nameserver records. I thought I could turn to Powershell to do this in far less time, and eliminate any mistakes that would no doubt happen doing this manually. However the PS command I…
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Can I have a SSL cert for a sub-domain in Lightsail if I already have a cert for the main domain in certificate manager?

In AWS I have a domain (lets call it www.mydomain.com) which I have a SSL cert in certificate manager and the DNS records in Route 53. In AWS Lightsail I have an instance with a loadbalancer and generated a Lightsail SSL cert for…
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Use CLOUD DNS to manage custom DNS for my customers

I need to manage custom domain for my customer on my app engine. I've seen "Cloud DNS", with this i can give NS to my customers, they update their NS to their DNS and game is done. So my customers will connect they customer.com to my…
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What is the recommended way to configure DNS?

Not sure if this is the right SE to ask the question, if not please kindly direct me to the right SE. Brief background: I am learning VPC and started with AWS lightsail(wordpress). I just realised it doesn't come with email service and have to be…
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CNAME is not acting as an Alias on Cloudflare

I would like to display the same content of: example.com if someone visits example.net I researched and it seems to be possible by simply setting up a CNAME record on example.net that is pointing to example.com. I did exactly that, and this is how…
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How to configure OpenVPN to update Bind9 entries for local domain?

I have found an article describing how to configure dhcp3 server to update a Bind9 zone with the hostnames and assigned ip addresses. I want to achieve the same effect, but inside a VPN subnet, where each VPN client will receive an IP address, and…
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What's the difference between DNS forwarding first and forwarding only?

I'm doing some research on DNS forwarding and I'm struggling with information on a few items: What's the difference between DNS forwarding first and forwarding only? Information on the internet doesn't seem that clear. If you have multiple DNS…
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How can you resolve different DNS entries depending on the source subnet?

I have a new internal website going in place in multiple sites and I am looking to resolve the fqdn for it to the site specific subdomain depending on the source subnet used. The way our bind DNS is currently setup is that the fqdn resolution is…
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How to "add" some A records to a "3rd party" DNS zone (using BIND)?

So, I'm not sure how to word the question exactly, but here's what I'm trying to do... (I'm trying to do this with BIND.) My company has it's own internal name servers. Let's say that they are authoritative for "company.local." I want to host my own…
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PowerDNS - Glue record returns servfail

So I've been in the process of setting up a PDNS Recursive and Authoritative server for an internal network. The recursive server runs on port 53 and the authoritative runs on 5300. Requests are forwarded using the…
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