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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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Domain Delegation isn't working

I made the mistake of registering a domain with Arvixe. The domain name is artofshell.com, and I'm trying to delegate this domain over to Microsoft Azure's DNS service. I created a DNS Zone in Azure, and set up several record sets I verified, using…
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How can I fix these SOA DNS problems?

I've set up a new domain on my new server and when testing the DNS I receive 2 warnings that I'm concerned about: 1) Delivery over IPv4 to server@domain.co.uk could not be done. 2) Failed to deliver email for SOA RNAME of domain.co.uk…
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How can I validate a DNS zone file as per RFC 1035?

A bit of background - I am building a tool which apart from doing a number of things also allows the user to manage Azure DNS. In my application there's a feature where a user could export the DNS settings to create a zone file. Using various…
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WARNING: At least one of your NS name does not seem a valid host name

So here is the issue I am having. When I run a DNS check on my TLD I am getting conflicting results. The domain name is newage.design and my NameServers are NS1.newage.design, NS2.newage.design, and NS3.newage.design When I run the DNS check I get…
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Unable to fully remove Windows DNS subdomain

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS server (that replicated to two other servers) with a zone called mycompany.com. I created a new subdomain for that zone called subdomain.mycompany.com, this subdomain contained a single SRV record and a single A…
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Active directory dns conflict in forestDNSzone partition

We have been having issues with DNS and active directory on occasion and as part of the investigation we have found a conflicting entry for our forest in the forestDNSzones partition. This does not seem to be causing an obvious issue in that our…
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subdomain on route53 private hosted Zone

I have been trying to setup a Private Hosted Zone in route53 with current associated VPCs in eu-west-1 and will soon add more. I have conformed that my VPC has DNS resolution option set to yes and necessary DHCP option sets are also created. I have…
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Purpose of a 'forwarder' option in a master zone

What is the purpose of setting a forwarders option in a master zone? In named.conf, it looks like this: zone "master.zone" { type master; file "zones/master/zone/master.zone"; key-directory "zones/master/zone/keys"; allow-update { …
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How to technically retrieve the full list of all domain names for a particular TLD?

It looks like there are companies that sell the lists of domain names, yet their lists are incomplete, and each company has a different amount of entries for a particular TLD. Why so much conspiracy about the complete list of…
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BIND9: Send Notifications on Specific IP Address

I've been trying to implement a bind master->slave setup between two machines, but I've a problem regarding the IP address BIND used on the master to notify my slave machine. Here is my setup: Master: master.site.com - 10.0.0.2 Slave: slave.site.com…
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How to resolve a host name in all sites in Active Directory?

I am learning AD DS currently. The scenario in my company looks like the following. WorkingPC.Asia.Corp.domain.com 172.10.212.62 FileServerA.Asia.Corp.domain.com 172.11.13.21 Asia-DNS-01.Aisa.Corp.domain.com…
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What are some of the hacks that DNSsec is intended to prevent

I know that the overall purpose of DNSsec is to prevent spoofing your DNS record. But what are some of the actual processes/routines that are used that DNSsec actively prevents?
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DNS zone names level restrictions

I'm researching a topic, but can't find any info about it, so I decided to ask here. I read 2 RFCs, but didn't saw anything about that. I presume there is non, but I need to be sure. Is there a limitation on the level of the DNS zone names e.g. can…
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bind zone file setup for dns round robin

I would like to set up load balancing for my website using DNS round robin. My DNS is managed by my own CentOS 6 server running bind. I added the following into my zone file: @ IN NS ns1.mydns.ch. @ …
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Using a cname for root/apex DNS zone loses MX records

DNS is hosted with Media Temple - I mentioning this only because I am curious if my logic is wrong or if this is specific to the way the Media Temple front end is translating input from the edit form into the zone file. MX records point to Google…
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