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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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Windows Server 2012 DNS Forward Lookup Zone missing sub zones

My client has been having DNS issues for the past couple months. I noticed that their Forward Loopup Zone is all screwed up and missing a bunch of subfolders (ie. gc, dc, pdc, domains, _sites, _tcp, _udp, etc.) They are a single server network,…
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Resolve DNS Misconfiguration abuse complaint

Today i received a abuse complaint about my dns server. Translation courtesy of Froggiz Hi, The CERT-FR has been informed by one of his partner that one or more domain name server (DNS) below aren't validating the IP source of the transfert…
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Centos 7 DNS Server /PTR/IN' **denied**

I need help, i've spend some time to troubleshoot the dns server that i created. but what happend is: when i tried to resolve the address i receive below log: Nov 15 04:21:01 mydnshostname00 named[1057]: client xxx.yyy.zzz.111#51843…
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NS Zone Records and Name servers when using Secondary DNS provider

I am attempting to setup Secondary dns with a well known provider. The goal is to have DNS served from 2 providers. The secondary DNS provider will mirror records from the primary dns provider so I only have to update them in one place. I am reading…
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DNS NS Redirect

I've come across something interesting that I've never seen before and was hoping someone could help to explain what I'm seeing. Here's the scenario: I have a domains testdomain.com zone file hosted with a DNS provider called SummitNetworks. On my…
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How to change the default values for new DNS zone?

How we can change (or set) the default values for the new DNS zone records? When we make a new Zone from its wizard in Microst DNS server, there is no question about the "name servers", then only the primary name server is added in the "Name…
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Service named failed to start

Service named (DNS/Bind) is failing to start. What am I doing wrong? I think it has to do with my 155.100.198.in-addr.arpa file, but I can't see my error. I am getting the following errors: zone 155.100.198.in-addr.arpa/IN: has no NS records zone…
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Active Directory DNS and Forest Root Domains

I am a little confused on the proper active directory configurations for the forest root domain. Recommendations call for using corp.example.com or internal.example.com. However, what is the best practice if you own/manage example.com domain? (I own…
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Is there a way to have Bind act as an authoritative server for a zone with incomplete records?

Sorry i don't really know how to phrase the question, perhaps let me explain the scenario. Say I own the domain xyz.com, and I'm using AWS Route 53 as my DNS. I want to have someInternalStuff.xyz.com resolvable to an internal IP address when I…
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Inserting mx records in forward zone

What is the correct way (and why) to add MX records to a forward zone using bind9? Option A @ IN MX 10 mx1.example.com. @ IN MX 20 mx2.example.com. mx1.example.com. IN A a.b.c.d mx2.example.com. IN A a.b.c.d Option B example.com. IN MX 10…
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Bind, IPV6, and Out of Zone Data

I am running into some problems getting bind properly configured to support IPV6 hosts. IPv4 is working fine, no issues. My zone file has both IP4 and IP6 data intermingled which I believe should not be a problem. My zone file looks like this: @ …
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Can a root server delegate specific subzones of a domain to different nameservers?

I would like to know, if a root server could delegate different subzones of a zone to different nameservers and the rest to a default nameserver. E.g. I have the zones "thing.", "some.thing.", "any.thing", "i.do.some.thing.", "i.do.any.thing.". How…
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Forward Lookup Zone Domain, Name Server IP "Unknown"

I have added the first new 2012r2 DC to an existing domain, that is running on 2003 servers. After getting it all setup, ADDS replicating, DNS replicating, DHCP setup etc. Everything I think seems to be working but I've noticed an issue, I think? …
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Point www and naked domain to other server

I'm kind of lost with this. I've got a domain parked on a web hosting company. The webpage is a webapp that generate too much traffic to be on a shared hosting. On current server I manage the emails account for the same domain. I copy the web to a…
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PowerDNS not listening

I just migrated from Bind9 to PowerDNS on my Debian 7 x86_64, and now DNS requests are not going through. I am not familiar with PowerDNS config files, but I did go into pdns.local and specified local-port=53. A quick netstat -tul…
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