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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Different IP for same FQDN using different resolver

For my domain gobudgie.ml I get different IPs on different DNS resolver eg.: jasmich.ml@8.8.4.4 (Default): jasmich.ml. 964 IN A 31.17.211.88 jasmich.ml@1.1.1.1 (CloudFlare): jasmich.ml. 966 IN A …
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Can I register a domain and have zero DNS records?

Is it bad practice to register a domain for future use and not assosiate any DNS records with it. For example say I purchase hello.com and goodbye.com and set the nameservers to my AWS R53 nameservers in my registar. But then in Route53 i do not…
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migrate DNS from goDaddy to Route 53

I want to migrate the domain service from goDaddy to AWS. I'm an absolute beginner, please be aware of that and be considerate. Here's what I've done and what hasn't worked. I purchased a domain name example.com at goDaddy. I also have an EC2…
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Why is my DNS Zone in Google Cloud not retrievable?

I set up a DNS one on Google Cloud as follows: Yet is still not retrievable: me@machine:~$ nslookup wciel.pl ns-cloud-d1.googledomains.com Server: ns-cloud-d1.googledomains.com Address: 216.239.32.109#53 *** Can't find wciel.pl: No…
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Should full hostname of email server be set in the DNS Zone Settings?

We are using a rented VPS as an email server. Lets say the email domain is example.com. The nameserver for example.com is a different server. rDNS for the VPS can be set on the hosting side. In order to reduce the chance of our email ending up in…
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Nameserver response has no authoritative bit set

I know that the authoritative name servers for google.com are ns1-4.google.com. Now, I do this: dig google.com @ns1.google.com And the response is: ; <<>> DiG 9.11.3-1ubuntu1.8-Ubuntu <<>> google.com @ns1.google.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got…
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Why does a dnssec signed zone fail to reload

FreeBSD-12 BIND-9.11 After some effort I have changed the error. Now I see this: 07-Jun-2019 18:01:25.299 zone parschecks/IN/public (unsigned): loaded serial 2019070701 (DNSSEC signed) 07-Jun-2019 18:01:25.299 dns_master_load: file format mismatch…
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Sub domain with digitalocean + Amazon Route + Hostgator

I have two domains, www.domain1.com and www.domain2.net. www.domain1.com is hosted by digitalocean www.domain2.net is hosted by hostgator shared plan. (website hosting) The zone file of www.domain1.com is managed by Amazon Route5 The zone file of…
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Redirecting my existing NS records to Cloudflare NS

I run a domain parking service, let's call it domainparking.tld and users set their domain's NS to point to: ns1.domainparking.tld ns2.domainparking.tld now the problem is ... few of these domains generate too much http traffic for me to handle,…
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Continuous migration of DNS server

Good morning, We are currently using CloudFlare to host our DNS zone. Yet, we'd like to move to Amazon Route53. And we'd like to make the switch progressively. We already have some apps in production, using some CloudFlare features such as SSL or…
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How to know when DNS zone is reloaded ? (ownercheck stage)

I have added the required TXT field in the ownercheck subdomain for a domain of mine. Once done I could redirect the domain to a webserver ip. But I'm a bit confused about the message by my hosting service (OVH): "Once done and your zone reloaded,…
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Do NS records have point to name servers with matching SOA?

I have a requirement to delegate many but not all domains to another DNS server. To simplify things, I'd like to delegate all of them to the same DNS server/zone, rather than one for each. Is that possible? Can I delegate to one server with the same…
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Correct SPF Record Usage?

My txt entry for my domain is as follows: "v=spf1 a ip4:aspmx.googlemail.com ptr:aspmx.googlemail.com include:aspmx.googlemail.com -all" I have also tried to use ptr in addition to a. However, I'm not sure I fully understand the difference between…
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duplicate DNS record side effect

I am trying to understand duplicate DNS record in Windows, in the past we had an issue under Linux environment that cause the whole zone to go down (cant access most of the zone due too many incorrect name resolution). In Windows I understand there…
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SPF setup for mail and relay server

So I am quite new to mail servers and looking for help with setting up SPF properly for this environment: mailserver (IP 11.11.11.11, example.com, random.com, test.com) relay server (IP 22.22.22.22, srv2.example.com) I have multiple domains…
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