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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 Bind server intermittent issues

We have a Bind server sitting on Ubuntu. It's a pretty basic setup. However we're having a silly issue that I am not sure is the server incorrectly configured, or if it's a problem on the interwebs. It's worth mentioning that the image below is…
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DNS server not resolving mail server host name

I have two name servers setup with bind. website, example.com, pings and displays fine so I know the dns record for it is ok. But, browsing to mail.example.com and pinging mail.example.com is a fail 90% of the time. The funny thing is that…
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How does hosting company know my domain name?

The questions below are to help me understand the process; so your input will be greatly appreciated. Here is a hypothetical scenario: I buy a domain for a domain selling company, A. Question 1: At this point does A 'register' my domain name with…
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MX record remain the same after changing

I accidentally change the MX record and change it back, but even when i change back, when i send the email to the account that with the domain name, it show the recipient not found, and show me Final-Recipient: rfc822; jasonchan@joycular.com Action:…
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powerdns or alternatives for hosting multiple domains

recently I assigned a project to a developer. My requirements are: host multiple domains/subdomains in a droplet/vps like these at digitalocean.com, use a dns authoritative server, have an automation script capable to create/modify/delete the dns…
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How to find list of all subdomains internally at company

I am a software developer and seems that will moving to a new building and wanting to make backups etc.. I am realizing that with 8 web servers , some of which are new and others windows 2000... apparently subdomains for clients are everywhere…
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Validity of DNS sub zone delegation back the authoritative server for the zone

I am in the middle of auditing our DNS infrastructure. Everything works fine (zone delegation, etc.) but I am wondering about the coherence of the infrastructure for a particular zone delegation (with respect to the state of the art). Server A…
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What am I doing wrong with bind9?

I am trying to bind a domain name to a vps but I am failing.. I get this when I dig: ; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> ns1.example.com @61.15.2.95 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49520 ;;…
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DNS issues with different internal domain and external domain

Scenario: I have an internal domain called mydomain.internal, which happens to be an old company name that they used to be and are now called bigcompany which is what there public facing website is called and there office 365 records and such…
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Configuring IP For Reverse DNS Lookup

I have a web server with a domain on it that has a dedicated IP address. I need the shared IP address for the server to show up during a reverse DNS lookup. The dedicated IP has an A record which works and looks like this, example.com 14400 A…
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In-house DNS Records not caching or propogating

We have a in-house DNS managed by our internal IT. We have to request them for any DNS related queries. Recently i asked them to configure a sub-domain i.e. idc.godrej.com My team uses AWS cloud so i created a zone idc.godrej.com on Route53 and…
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Multiple nameservers for multiple dedicated servers on a single domain

The first dedicated server I setup two custom nameserver at registrar to server 1 ips and set the whole domain to those two namservers. (lets just say my domain is server.com) ns1.server.com ns2.server.com I now want to add a second dedicated…
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Why dig NS returns nothing for a domain while it can find an A record for that domain?

I'm confused by the DNS resolution. How is it possible that for a domain we can get an IP (A record) but no authoritative NS is returned for that domain. For example dig ns HDRedirect-LB3-890977680.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com returns nothing but…
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Error pointing Godaddy domain to VPS

I just have bought a new domain on the provider Godaddy. I'm trying to set up the glue records in order to point to my point to my server: 137.74.194.89 I think I've done everything ok in my server because it answer ok to my querys on localhost. …
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How to simply Reroute an IP to another?

Basically, here is my need : Being able to specify an IP address in the DNS Zones of my 60+ domains, and have the ability to redirect this IP to another one (and change it when needed). I'm not the kind of "network guy", so a little help would..…
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