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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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Secondary DNS different SOA record

we are managing our DNS data at Azure DNS. They provide 4 NS for redundancy, but just two days ago the whole Azure DNS service went down for a few hours, and all of our services with it as well. Now i'm looking for a better redundancy for such a…
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No MX records?! Zone file for Shopify vs. hosted email

One of my hosting clients has a website: www.vincedevito.ca. Some time ago, he decided to use Shopify as his primary website, but I still host his email. Therefore, I set up a DNS Zone with GoDaddy. ; SOA Record VINCEDEVITO.CA. 3600 IN SOA…
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What are the implications of inserting a DKIM record for a third party sending email on our behalf?

Our organization is setting up an account with a third party cloud service that will be sending emails on our behalf. Our marketing department would like to eliminate the "via" or "on behalf of" bits that some clients show so that it looks like the…
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Two DNS zones: one for internal, the other for DMZ servers, is it possible?

I currently work in a company that has two DNS servers (ns1 and ns2) open to the Internet on the DMZ, and it's hosting two zones: company.org and company.net. In both zones there are servers in the DMZ and in the internal LAN, and recursion is…
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CNAME Record with any other Resource Record in BIND

As per best of my understanding, CNAME can't exist with any other RR in DNS Server. I am using BIND 9.9.5. Now when i am adding CNAME record with a domain which already has NS Records, i am not getting any warning or error while checking zone with…
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Wildcard Sub-domain of Sub-domain

I have the domain example1.com - DNS managed at Linode.com There is a site hosted at example1.com (1.1.1.2) and it works fine. I have an A record for example1.com that points sub.example1.com to 1.1.2.2 I can confirm requests to sub.example1.com…
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Why is my NS record ns.mysite.com.mysite.com?

I ran this command # dig mysite.com @localhost The result was the below and my zone file is below that. Why is the AUTHORITY SECTION ns.mysite.com.mysite.com? Instead of ns.mysite.com? Another thing bothering me is how does anyone find mysite.com?…
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What is the minimal possible bind configuration that works?

I have been trying to make bind work on Fedora 21, and haven't succeeded doing it. I read a few tutorials which basically instructed me to create a zone for my domain and an inverse mapper, then found a tool called system-config-bind from Red Hat,…
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Is it acceptable (or possible) to use an IP Address as a nameserver entry for a domain name?

I am attempting to use bind9 on my linux VPS to "host" the zone files for my domain name. My confusion is that my VPS's hostname is that domain name. If a client were to look up ns1.mydomain.com and my VPS is serving that zone file, the client would…
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A Week after changing nameservers most users are still getting old site

I changed the nameservers for our client 7 days ago - their domain registrar is doteasy.com and I've spoken with them several times over the last few days. I understand that nameservers need to propagate but I don't see why this has taken so long.…
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How do I install and use the cli53 tools on Windows?

I'm trying to find the simplest way to import a large number of BIND zone files in to Route 53. I've had a quick look at the AWS CLI and AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell but they don't seem to include a zone file import option like the AWS Route53…
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How to handle multiple DNS servers efficently?

I've recently added more BIND9 DNS servers to my network, and the work of adding each zone/domain i want the slave nodes to be a slave to is becoming far too repetitive, not to mention that having only one master server creates an easy point of…
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How do I write a zonefile so that DNS changes do not have latency?

I need to test various DNS changes on my domain which require that the zone file changes I make are updated quickly. I'm a bit confused between Refresh, Retry, Expire and TTL values. Which is the one I need to set to a minimum, to "propogate DNS…
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"zone has no NS records" error while setting up subdomain

I'm following this tutorial: http://groups.drupal.org/node/16862 to setup sub-domain on my ubuntu machine. In step III, I use the same db.mydev as the tutorial except the IP: mydev. 86400 IN SOA mydev. hostmaster.mydev. ( 20091028 ; serial…
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Can I remove these DNS zones?

I manage a server without a cpanel, I installed Webmin on it. And under Bind settings I have these zones: "Root zone" "0" "0000::1" "127.0.0.1" "mydomain.com" "localhost" "localhost.localdomain" I am wondering if is safe to remove these…
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