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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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setup domain with random ip addresses

i set up nameservers as follows ns1.domain.com ip1 ns2.domain.com ip1 ns3.domain.com ip2 ns4.domain.com ip2 ns5.domain.com ip3 ns6.domain.com ip3 all dns records and PTR records correctly has been set in both domain panel and directadmin dns…
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How long is stub zone NS servers timeout?

I could not find any documentation on how long is a stub zone timeout? i.e. DNS server bar.com with a stub zone foo.com and 2 NS servers in the stub zone: ns1.foo.com and ns2.foo.com What is the timeout on bar.com to switch from ns1.foo to ns2.foo…
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Master DNS server doesn't serve the clients

Until yesterday I had a dedicated server with 2 IPs and Plesk. The NS, NS2 is running on same server, I'm using Plesk to add the domain records. Everything I worked great. Yesterday I had to buy an other server, so I decided to use it as DNS server…
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Setting up two Bind9 DNS Servers on LAN with one serving a particular zone and the other hinting to it

I have set up a Bind9 DNS to serve names on a local netword 172.16.0.0/16. This Bind9 DNS service works fine and resides on 172.16.0.4. It serves names in the domain "mydomain.mak" correctly to all other computers in this subnetwork. For some…
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Would it be good idea to share DNS zone files via NFS?

Any expert advice on Bind DNS zone file transfer (master->slave) via NFS? Are there any drawbacks for not using Bind's zone transfer feature? Thanks a lot!
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DNS zone servicing concepts

Currently I am working out some concepts about how DNS works and am running into a question I can't easily find an answer to on the internet. I am looking for an answer based on a set of questions regarding the following scenario:…
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dns zone configuration incorrect

i'm trying to ping mail.example.com but failed. base on my below zone configuration. Did I configure anything wrong? $TTL 604800 ; 1 week @ IN SOA serverad.example.com. root.example.com. ( 232 ; serial …
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Setting up WHM nameservers

I am new to server administration and I've just got a dedicated root server from Hetzner. First I set up in Hetzner's robot DNS entries Registered nameservers: ns1.raybear.com 88.198.32.57 ns2.raybear.com 88.198.32.57 Under DNS entires I…
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understand BIND9, DNS Master and Slave Zones

edit: (for clarification) I have two servers. Server 1 has a static IP, and server2 has a dynamic hostname using DDNS services. both servers are running Ubuntu 12.04 lts, and virtualmin. on server 1, we are running bind9, and and it has a Master…
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DNS Zone in cPanel

This is the Zone of my Hostname : host.mydomain.com IN SOA ns1.mydomain.com host.mydomain.com IN NS ns1.mydomain.com host.mydomain.com IN NS ns2.mydomain.com host.mydomain.com IN A 111.111.111.111 localhost IN A 127.0.01 This is the Zone of NS1…
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SPF record for sending emails

The website is under our server with the domain: xxxx.org.il the client email is xxxx@yyyyyy.co.il the email they get is from a third party the email we sent from the website are trough one of the ISP here with authentication for one of our local…
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Centos7 slave zones doesn't query master for zone file

This is my named.conf. These are zones on 192.168.2.194. Also, 192.168.2.194 can successfully query zone files from centos 7 master zones.
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Glue record limitations for authoritative nameservers

I am trying to set up some nameservers for use by many domains, but there appears to be some issues with my set-up and I am not clear on what needs to be fixed to get it to work. For my nameservers, it is set up as follows: I have several…
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What is the difference between zone and domain and domain name in DNS terminology?

The question is clear: How are DNS zones and DNS domains and DNS domain names different? Disclaimer: Originally, this question was asked on StackOverflow (link) by someone else, but it got closed as it is off-topic there. There is an answer to it as…
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nsupdate not updating Apex record

nsupdate is only working for cnames. It seems the apex (A record for the root domain) is not updating. I have been able to add to the zone file by using "update add . 604800 A 1.1.1.1" but it puts it in the "$ORIGIN ." section of the zone file and I…
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