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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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bind9 got "bad zone transfer request"

My Debian-server acts as a DNS server for the domain I own. Since my ISP also allocated me a sub-domain, my DNS server also has a few entries for that host. In other words, I have /etc/bind/db.domain-i-own.tld with a few entries and…
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BIND SERVFAIL after upgrade to Debian Jessie

I've done absolutely nothing to my BIND configuration, but looks like Debian Jessie upgrade has broke it. Maybe some new options got introduced to it, or the old things now work differently, but I cannot find what's going wrong. I got SERVFAIL in my…
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Can the dns' domain be in its own spf record?

I'm finally fixing up my dns zone files in Gandi, which has a handy feature that lets me use the same zone file for several domains. So I can keep 1 zone file for a single domain and all its tld's. But normally, when you set up the SPF record for eg…
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Is @ the same as the IP address for @ in the MX record entry of a zone file?

I have the following configuration in my DNS Zone. I want to switch the @ record to a different IP address, but I want to keep the MX records the same. Please note the IP address has been changed to 76.13.141.185 to protect privacy. So, what I'm…
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dig: "Transfer failed."

INPUT: dig +multiline google.com axfr OUTPUT: ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-RedHat-9.7.3-1.fc14 <<>> +multiline google.com axfr ;; global options: +cmd ; Transfer failed. What am I missing? Regarding: DNS Lookup to Bind config file
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BIND: how to delegate subzone to other DNS server?

I'm in the process of migrating from a workgroup served by a BIND9 DNS server, to a AD Domain based on Windows Server 2008 R2, and I'd like to keep using the BIND server until the AD infrastructure is ready. During the setup of AD, via dcpromo, I…
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How to check for the existence of deep subdomains even if the intermediate ones don't exist?

Suppose that test.example.com don't exists and gives NXDOMAIN when runnning dig on it , but i know that subdomain.test.example.com exists and gives NOERROR when doing the same, is there a way to check that a deep subdomain exists even though the…
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Lightsail instance requests time out with domain name but work with IP address

I'm attempting to create a BookStack site on an Amazon Lightsail instance. I'm having an issue where my static public IP address attached to my Lightsail instance will go to my site just fine, from any browser or computer. However, my domain address…
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PTR not showing in dig request

I am trying to set up a PTR for reverse DNS so that mail that gets sent from me scripts doesn't get blocked due to reverse DNS failure. I beleive my zone is set up correctly, however me "thinking" it's correct and "knowing" it's correct are 2…
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share cannot be opened using FQDN from the same server it is on

we have shares on a server that should open without asking for credentials (current user has permissions there). The server has several other records in another dns zone leading to it's ip. We can open the share from other servers in the domain by…
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SPF settings for a domain added to gmail

I have a domain on my host which I've added to Gmail. It has the following SPF record, "v=spf1 a ~all" All emails that I send from Gmail are correctly verified and have the following header, spf=pass (google.com: domain of demo@mydomain.com…
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DNS Server - 2 Domains - 2 DNS Servers - Replicate DNS between two domains in 1 LAN

We have 2 DOMAINS (x.local and y.local) with both own AD and DNS environment. How can I link the DNS lookup zones from both DNS servers to eachother. So when a client from one domain can resolve DNS names from the other domain withouth manually…
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What are possible security issues with TLD not being secured with DNSSEC, even if subdomain is?

We are working on a stablished network with a BIND9 server running (as well as many other services). I'm learning and trying to reorganize the old configuration files to comply with the present day (Many dead machines, unused names, reverse mapping…
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Syncronize SOA serial numbers explanation

I made two successive mistakes while updating zone records. Once I forgot to increment the serial number, then next time I did put a digit more ie 20170210111 instead of 2017021011, and each time I reloaded config : rndc reload. When I realised it,…
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How to tell ISC DHCP correct zone for reverse zone DDNS update?

I've got an ISC DHCP server running (version 4.2.5) which is configured to dynamically update the reverse zone on a DNS service with the hostname it receives via a dhcp DISCOVER package. It all works fine on zones like 2.1.10.in-addr-arpa but this…
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