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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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Why do I need to escape ; with \ in a DNS DKIM record?

I'm setting up Email Authentication on our domain to allow authentication with our Email Service Provider. My understanding is that the DNS record needs to have any ; escaped, e.g., \; I just want to make sure that ALL ; should be escaped. To that…
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How to setup redundant ejabberd servers?

I currently have an ejabberd server running at domain A. It has a bunch of users with accounts like xyz@A. I want to setup alternative servers so that if A is down, clients can transparently use alternative servers B and C (thus, while still using…
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DNS referral / delegation: which DNS is responsible; How to delegate the right way?

Introduction I bought the domain earechnung.at with Hetzner and am using my webspace at All-Inkl. I want to use the nameservers of my webhost (All-Inkl). Zonefiles and Nameservers As I registered the domain with Hetzner, nic.at (the austrian domain…
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Global zones visible in all views

I have a BIND 9 server running, currently serving several domains. For one of these domains I would like to differentiate the answers depending of the asking IP address. I know this can be done by views. But I only would like to split one domain…
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Is it possible to define a block in a zone file as constant in Dynamic DNS (using bind)?

bind mangles my zone file every time a DNS update is done. If defining a block as constant isn't possible, is it possible to have 2 or more zone files describing one domain? The intent being one zone file is for fixed RR's and the other for dynamic…
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Managing zone files

We host our very own DNS server (BIND) for various reasons, including the fact that we deploy and kill machines very often and that we sometimes need to load balance via DNS very quickly. However, now that we have a good 60 servers, we're kind of…
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Route 53 - cross account delegation of APEX record

We're implementing an AWS serverless stack with multiple environments. Trying to follow best practices, we created multiple accounts for different purposes. There's a DNS account, which is supposed to contain all hosted zones related to this…
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Getting no servers could be reached when using host, nslookup and dig

I'm following this answer How do I get the mx records for a domain from *nix command line? but every time I get an error: ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached Error Image Can anyone help to sort out this issue? Thanks in advance.
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Seamless transition from internet to local network

I'm setting up a NAS server for my company. From the outside it is accessible through mydomain.dyn.com, from the local network it can be accessed through its local IP address. The problem is that I can't connect to the server using domain name from…
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How to put DNS Zones in Windows Server 2012R2 under git Version Control

We currently use Windows Server 2012 R2 as our DNS Server. I would like to put all zone files under version control. I found this question that shows how to export the zones via PowerShell. But it doesn't seem to export it in a way that I could…
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BIND/DNS - dig +trace = Bad Referral and Bad Horizontal Referral

I have an interesting problem. I started noticing that when I do a dig +trace against one of the domains we are authoritative for, we get errors from our nameservers for "Bad Referral" and you can see where it forwarded the request back up the…
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Slave DNS server (bind) zone files transffered but data is unreadable

I've set up a slave DNS server on Linux using bind. On starting the named service the zone files transffered to slaves/ but the information in the files looks like its in strange computer symbols (i'm not sure what the correct term is for this)…
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no current owner name error when running named-checkzone on both forward and reverse

I'm trying to learn dns and bind on centos 7 at digital ocean. When I run named-checkzone I get the same errors. When I change around the white space I stop that error only to replace it with a 0 SOA and no NS error. sudo named-checkzone…
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Alternative ways to get past 32 rpz zone limit in BIND? ...without running BIND a thousand times

Using BIND RPZs gives me exactly what I'm looking for to alter queries. However, my recursive DNS server is in use by hundreds of clients and I am looking for a way to allow each client some level of customization. There's possibly a couple hundred…
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Registrar nameservers vs. NS records for bare domain?

OK, I'm a bit new to DNS, but I'm having some trouble finding the answer to this. I have a domain registered at google domains. As with other registrars, you have access to their free DNS, and although I realize you can change these, I also noticed…
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