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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How to split dns configuration within 2 servers

I have both aws route53 and a dedicated server dns conf I tried setting NS records - ns111.awsdns-xz.co. - ns112.awsdns-xz.co. - ns113.awsdns-xz.co. Basically what I want to achieve is to have multiple unrelated DNS records on both servers as…
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DNS caching - iterative vs recursive

In an iterative DNS architecture , local DNS servers have caches and can mostly skip contacting root and TLD servers. In a recursive schema, the local DNS server contacts one DNS server which recursively fetches the result and replies with the…
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BIND and DNSSEC setup debugging

I am trying to get DNSSEC up and running, but I'm having some difficulties getting it working. I am running BIND 9.14.2 (on Windows of all things). BIND is working fine and there's have a number of zones in production on these servers. I just cant…
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BIND9 Slave server not resolving but replicated zones are fine

Today the master dns server of an internal network subdomain failed and the slave server cannot find names in the replicated zone Querying the server nslookup ns1.sis.trt 10.3.190.61 Server: 10.3.190.61 Address: 10.3.190.61#53 ** server…
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Internal DNS Setup [Bind9] , unable to dig from another machine, but able to dig locally

I have a local network with 3 machines, each one of them is able to ping the others. I have setup a DNS server using bind9 in one of those machines, and asigned the ftp.rp.iesdomain to one of its ip. This is how my /etc/network/interfaces looks …
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Dns resolution [BIND9] , pinging to the right domain, but answer coming from another domain

I have created my /etc/network/interfacesconfigured like this: /etc/network/interfaces Then I have 2 files i created in /etc/bind One of them is db.rag.es , which looks like this: db.rag.es file And the other one is db.222.168.192 which looks like…
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BIND9, redirect specific DNS Request to different DNS

I have a DNS server using BIND9 on Ubuntu 18.04 server, It acts as caching DNS server as well as local resolver for local network IPs. This server forwards to Google DNS 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4. I was wondering if it's possible to forward specific DNS…
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DNS times out twice and then resolves on DomainController

Lookup from non-domain controllers result is fine. But on the domain controller the nslookup times out twice and then it resolves the address. This DC is a fresh install and I'm unable to find out the cause of the issue. There is no firewall btw. If…
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Forward Route53 to another DNS provider

I have many customer websites set up using Route53 as the DNS provider. I've switched over to using CloudFlare DNS for newer websites and would like to migrate these older sites over to the same DNS without them needing to update the nameservers in…
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When do I need an A-Record for an NS for a subdomain

I am trying to answer the following question: I have domain example.com with a subdomain: subdomain.example.com which is realized as an own zone. I also have NS1 for example.com and NS2 as authoritative for subdomain.example.com If I want to…
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How can you Reduce Downtime with a Name Server Change?

I am planning to change the registration of a domain from Hover to AWS. In preparation, I am first going to change the Name Servers over from Hovers own DNS to Amazons Route 53. Currently, I have created a Route 53 Hosted zone for the domain that I…
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BIND cannot see local client PCs and vice versa

I'm trying to configure bind9 DNS to make it usable for my tiny network of windows PCs in order to create Active Directory DC on samba. For some reason I am getting "ignoring out-of-zone data" for these PCs. I am pretty sure I am missing something,…
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Multiple DNS Subdomain

I am trying to create an hosting service for websites basically using multiple machines. Then, when a user creates a website, I give him a random identifier (ex: "a4589", "pu8we" and so on) used as a subdomain. Then, because I will have multiple…
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Bind DNS <-> Windows DNS

My environment: AD: Active Directory with AD integrated DNS (Windows Server 2016), Domain: example.com, only internal domain stuff in DNS I am owner of Domain example.com and now i want to point to my own dns server(s). I don't want to publish the…
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How to verify which DNS server actually answered a request when it's forwarded?

ISC BIND has a tool named dig that allows us to send a DNS request to a DNS server set on parameter and see what that server answers. I wanted to know if that DNS server answered based on its cache, on its zones, or if it forwarded the request. And,…
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