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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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Adding root named DNS zone in AD environment

We have a test environment with root AD domain named corp.testdomain.net with AD integrated DNS. For Exchange tests, messaging team has asked if we can create testdomain.net zone on DNS server. Surely it would help to have a testdomain.net as a root…
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How to configure DNS Zone to use a different IP as Email server?

I used to have my web and email services on the same machine, on the same IP address, so my DNS Zone was relatively simple. Now, I am setting-up 2 separate machines, for Web server, and for Email server. Server #1 for Web services :…
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named cannot be loaded; because zone file errors

I try to make a DNS server with named (I believe it is also called "BIND"). when I try to load the server I get: systemctl status named.service * named.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS) Loaded: loaded…
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How to test an installed SSL Certificate before a domain resolves to the server

Is it posisble to test an SSL Cert through a browser that is installed on a server before the DNS has been updated to point that domain to its new server? I am looking to do something like what the DigiCert online SSL Checker does. I have a host…
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Changing DNS provider

probably my question had been answered elsewhere but I could not find it yet. One of our clients is about change DNS provider to our (also hosted) DNS provider. They provided the zone file. I have created a zone (toto.com) for them added A and MX…
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Non-authoratative zone for local DNS?

A company I work for has a local DNS server that answers requests for their domain, foo.com, internally. Externally, we serve DNS for foo.com with Route 53. The problem we have is that we have to duplicate any new DNS records, adding them both to…
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How long does it take to update TTL (Time To Live) of a domain

Say my domain example.com has TTL set to 86400. If i change this through the registrars' panel to 60 when will this change take place? Will it need 86400 seconds ? or will it be instant? I cant find anything online regarding this.
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Domain Slave Zone Definition

I've been using Linode for about a year, and am still confused by 'Master' Domain Zone and 'Slave' Domain Zone terminology on their DNS Manager. The term 'Zone' in conjunction with 'Master' AND 'Slave' do not seem to be used anywhere else online…
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dkim for email marketing service but none for email host

hopefully this is a simple question to answer... For the last few years I've had only SPF setup with our O365 Exchange Online domain's DNS records. I haven't yet setup a DKIM because we've never really had any issues with spam classification or…
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PowerDNS : Respond differently based on Client IP address

Currently I'm using Bind9 for my DNS server. It was set-up in such a way that the server respond differently depending on which IP the request came from. I'm using Bind's View to achieve this. The conf file is something similar to this : acl…
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Connection reset on AXFR queries

I'm trying to setup maradns and maradns-zoneserver to allow AXFR queries. Maradns is doing as master server. I want to allow external secondary dns servers to transfer my zone. Unfortunately dig @XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX +tcp axfr mydomain.com Results…
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DNS resolution fallback to NS

I have a very basic question regarding DNS resolution rules. Let's say that I my domain name is mydomain.parentdomain.com and I am having bind config (very stripped one): NS ns.parentdomain.com ORIGIN…
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Google Domain Root domain forward to S3

I am trying to forward my root domain (minus www) to an S3 bucket using Google Domains. I get an error saying that it cannot forward root domain, is there a way I can do this? Is there a way I can find S3 ip address to forward to that?
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NS1 and CloudFront, ALIAS vs CNAME

I have my entire website behind a CloudFront distribution, and I used to have a Route53 zone, where the zone apex record for my website pointed to an ALIAS record for the CloudFront distribution. However, now I'm switching to NS1 as a DNS provider.…
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Bind DNS named.config serial- Should it autoincrement? Alternatives to ammending it each time

I'm configuring a DNS service for the first time which involves a master DNS server and a slave DNS server. On investigating why the slave zones were not updating after I make edits to the zones on the master DNS, I discovered that the serial value…
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