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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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DKIM key length causing failed validation?

I setup a DKIM record where I had to break up the value because it exceeded the 255 character length limitation. But now I see that online checkers are complaining about the p= not being base64 encoded. Such as this site -…
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Adding a dns zone in Active Directory - are there possible side effects?

Hi I am working with a very basic Active Directory setup, which unfortunately is name mydomain.local which means I can't get an SSL cert. I bought one for an external domain mydomain.click. I basically created a DNS zone in AD DNS for mydomain.click…
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Migrating DNS Server -- Record data still shows name of previous server

I have been tasked with Migrating a DNS Server. Two separate servers There is no Active Directory Actual Migration -- not just creating secondary zones For the sake of example let's name the servers: SERVER1 Windows Server…
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How to add multiply dns zone files via dnscmd

I have current Windows DNS server which is hosting something around 500 standard (non-AD) zones. I need transfer all of them to the new server. I copied .dns files from C:\Windows\System32\DNS from current to new server. However, they didn't appear.…
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What's the difference between FQDNs and Hostnames

First of all, I wanna say that I know how DNS Servers work and also I know about the records in a DNS Zone File! I'm not an expert but I have some knowledge about them. I'm confused! why?! because I don't know what's the exact difference between…
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bind subdomain zone file to keep traffic local

We have a local owncloud server and if we set up the clients to use the IP everything works fast. If we setup the domain (a DYDNS subdomain, prsc.noip.me) is VERY slow. A bit of research indicated this is because using prsc.noip.me the traffic goes…
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How to limit a DNS stub zone to a specific subnet?

I have several Windows Servers on 2 different locations. The servers on Site A have multiple IPs for different subnets configured. Site B can only reach one of Site A's subnets (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24). For the other subnets there's no routing…
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How to setup AD DNS in split brain mode just for one host

I am sorry for imperfect terminology (have only very basic understanding of network administration). I have two DNS: Public DNS which manages zone 1 Internal DNS (which is AD DNS based on Windows Server 2012R2) which manages zone 2. I need to…
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Active Directory multi-tree, single forest DNS configuration

So, I have a multi-tree single forest that contains 2 tree domains called simpson.local (forest root) flanders.local Now both domains have full trust and both domains use Active Directory-Integrated DNS replicating too all domain controllers in…
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With BIND 9 how can I match-clients in multiple views?

BIND appears to be looking at the configuration file from top-down and assigning queries to the first matching view based on match-clients. According to http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch7/view.html that's exactly how it's supposed to work. In my…
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Connecting my domain name to my droplet

I setup an Apache static website on a DigitalOcean droplet. The company that hosts my domain name (webhostingpad) provides an "Advanced DNS Zone Editor" which I used to setup a (redirect/forward?) to my droplet. My domain name is…
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How to add a CNAME record?

On PowerDNS on a Raspberry, I have recursor pointing to Google (8.8.8.8) and only one zone file and it contains: $ORIGIN abc.co.uk. $TTL 1h @ IN SOA ns.abc.co.uk. hostmaster.abc.co.uk. ( 1; serial 1d; refresh 2h; retry 4w; expire 1h;…
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SQL Server VM keeps losing connection to Domain (DNS Issue)

I have a Virtual Domain setup under VMware with 1 DC, 2 IIS Servers and 1 SQL Server. All running Server 2012. On the SQL Server I randomly get The system failed to register host (A or AAAA) resource records (RRs) for network adapter - Event ID…
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How to configure mutli-level subdomain DNS record

I have configured the DNS records for a stage server for my application so that when someone visits stage.example.com and www.stage.example.com will work. (Actually if he visits the first he will be redirected to the second by the webserver.) My…
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Domain not pointing to server, redirecting from .in to .com

I ran into a weird situation. I have these two domains example.com and example.in. Earlier I had example.in forwarded to example.com. Now I want example.in to point to my VPS server. I changed the Hostnames and Nameservers, changed A Record but the…
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