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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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How to setup primary DNS as OCI DNS and secondary DNS as EasyDNS?

I want to setup primary DNS as OCI DNS for a domain example.com. Want to setup it's secondary DNS in easyDNS. I found a documentation here to setup secondary DNS with easyDNS: https://kb.easydns.com/knowledge/secondary-dns/ Here is an example with…
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How DNS test RTT works for getting all nameservers' RTT of a zone?

When I read 《DNS and BIND》 CHOOSING BETWEEN AUTHORITATIVE NAMESERVERS: Some of the card-carrying Mensa members in our reading audience may be wondering how the nameserver that receives the recursive query chooses among the nameservers authoritative…
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DNS records: Remote A record for website and local server for mail server

First of all. I'm sorry if my question is irrelevant, bacuse i'm new on DNS Records. I have 2 Server, will call them #Server-1 and #Server-2. For. eg. i have a web site with domain name www.example.com. Mail and Website running at…
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Bind9 DNS configuration for a private sub-domain from a public domain name

We currently have a private DNS service that we wish to migrate to Bind9. So I have to migrate the current configuration to Bind9, but I'm having trouble setting it up. Here is the context. I have a public domain name "acme.com" managed by a…
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Forward Lookup Zones in DNS Manager should I use domain name or server name

The server that I use for hosting web apps has been moved to a new location. I have a remote connection to it and have been trying to update the forward lookup zones to the reflect the new ip address. My question is, under Type Name Server (NS)…
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bind zone choking on IN TXT record added to subdomain

When I add this line to my zone record: subdomain.example.org. IN TXT "some text here", my syslog reports the zone can't reload due to errors. subodmain IN TXT "some text here" also fails. The zone reloads fine without this line.
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How to lookup DNS Record in specific zone

For example I have a zone example.com and someone created a dotted hostname app.subzone which resolves to app.subzone.example.com in it. Now I create a new zone subzone.example.com and an record appin it. At this point I can no longer query the…
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Backup Azure DNS Settings

We are using Azure DNS to host many nameservers for our costumer domains that are facing the public internet. I would like to backup these settings in a easy way, in case of disaster or someone accedently delete the dns zone. Any simple way?
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Classless Reverse Map Delegation doesn't work with "dig -x". Does it affect anything?

The web Zytrax.com, where I learned about Classless Reverse Map Delegation, says that dig -x isn't supposed to work in this if this method of delegation (using CNAMES) is used. For Example: This isn't supposed to work: dig -x…
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Forest Trust Relationship and DNS

I am creating a new single domain Forest, SCP.com and I have an existing single domain Forest, ICS.com Have an existing internal DNS server in ICS.com that has a Forward Lookup Zone for the domain SCP.com pointing to a handful of web applications…
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Fix Failed DNS Lookups Caching on VPN

I have an OpenVPN instance on AWS I'm using to control access to admin tools. I have an internal Route53 zone and a BIND instance which OpenVPN sets as the client DNS. Everything works great, except than whenever I open my laptop if I have a…
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Setting up a naked TLD in Bind

I'd like to have a very short internal TLD, go, pointed at a webserver hosting a URL redirection app. For instance, a user could type go/chat or go/news without the need to remember what the exact URL is. I've set up my internal DNS server with a…
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Blinking dns zone records (subdomains)

One week ago I have added few new A records to existing zone mints.rocks h37.mints.rocks , resh37.mints.rocks And now sometimes dns resolves it with empty value But previous 40 records works well, for example h34.mints.rocks…
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If my domain name DNS's SOA Serial is 1 and never changes, will zone updates still propagate in a timely way?

If I set my DNS zone's SOA serial number to "1" and never change it, would domain name servers around the internet ignore or be slow in seeing zone updates? Since all my primary DNS servers for my domain are masters, I don't have a case where slaves…
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Is repetition needed for a zonefile with host records and a round robin for those hosts

I currently have a zone which looks like this roughly: www1 A 10.0.0.1 www2 A 10.0.0.2 www3 A 10.0.0.3 I want to have a round robin record for those IP, of course this can be achieved by adding the following: www A 10.0.0.1 www A 10.0.0.2 www A…
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