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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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TXT entry in DNS for both gmail and amazon ses

It seems adding a TXT entry in DNS about Google is a good practice (when using gmail to send mail) to prevent being considered as Spammer. So I could add a TXT entry in my DNS records to: example.org TXT "v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all" But,…
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How are the NS records resolved?

Note: I'm aware of glue records and that DNS servers use them only in case the ns server domain is the same as the domain for which you sent the query. Now my question was: Say you have example.com which has ns1.example.org (a different domain than…
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DNS - Use public domain name for internal use

I've setup Bind as my intranet DNS resolving service (running on Ubuntu 16.04.02 LTS). What I want to achieve: Having a public domain name which points to a server (example: domain.com -> 1.2.3.4) Using the same subdomain name which points to…
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Bind Slave Server Notify after adding new zone

I am new to DNS Setup, i have recently setup DNS server Master and Slave using bind9. Here is my config... Master DNS - ns1.example.com. - 192.0.2.1 Slave DNS - ns2.example.com. - 192.0.2.2 named.conf.options options { directory…
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Server 2012 DNS server not resolving all forward lookup zones

Name resolution is failing for a handful of zones at only one site. It had been working fine, but stopped at one site recently. We are using DNS to restrict access to Youtube (see here) so we have a forward lookup zone www.youtube.com setup to…
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BIND 9.8.4 on debian, forwarding a zone failes to resolve

I have an authoritative DNS server which I want to forward example.com to another server. I have this in my options dnssec-validation no; forwarders { 209.200.164.69; 209.200.164.74; }; and this in my zone config zone "example.com" IN { type…
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DNS "views" and controlling zone transfers with TSIG

Running Bind 9.8.2. I have successfully setup TSIG keys for "views" using a DNS master/server pair. Zone transfers are working as expected between the 2 servers for each view. Before we go live into production with this I need some clarification on…
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CNAME as different domain name

I've a query with regards to CNAME record, can I have a CNAME as different domain name? Ex. I've a website example.com, can I create a CNAME with example.net? So, irrelevant of what end user types (either example.com or example.net) they should…
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BIND - SERVFAIL errors when using views

Running bind 9.8.2 and getting servfail errors when querying a host that resides in one of my views. Here is a snip of my conf file. view "insideview" { match-clients { 192.168.100.202; }; zone "internal" IN { type master; …
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how to find out who is managing my DNS records?

I have a following situation: a website is registered with registrar X, hosted on server Y and about to move to server Z. The both servers Y and Z do not manage the domain DNS as according to them “it is managed by the company it was purchased…
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Need help for configuring a dns server

I want to run a dns server to have my own nameservers : ns1.radicalteam.ir and ns2.radicalteam.ir I have a VPS and installed Centos 6.5 on it, and radicalteam.ir and soulati.ir domains I've set soulati.ir nameservers to ns1.radicalteam.ir and…
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How can I split a DNS zone and forward unknown queries?

This might be a little odd but basically I have a domain that exists on the outside let's call it "deploy.myitcompany.com". This domain is used for deploying iPads for a company using Apple MDM. The issues I running into is inside the building they…
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Subdomain DNS with A record for subdomain root?

I'm spinning off a subdomain from my company's domain. Now, it has been some time since I do DNS/BIND configuration, so I need your help to ensure that my configuration is sane/correct: So, for the parent domain (let's say example.com), I should add…
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With DNS, what is the difference between Delegation, Forwarding, Conditional Forwarding, and Stub zones?

I am surprised at how many different ways I have read answers to this question and I still don't know the fine differences of the answer. For each of these similar DNS concepts: Delegation Forwarding Conditional Forwarding Stub Zones I would like…
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dig not giving AD-bit when dnssec is configured

I am working on this Deterlab exercise and I run into some problems when adding DNSSEC to Bind. The server runs BIND 9.7.0-P1. The configurations I have done is the following: Signed zone for google.com: zonesigner -genkeys google.com Added…
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