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Can CNAMEs be used to point to Name Servers?

Here's what I need: www. and root of domain are hosted on the old host beta. is hosted by the new host Here is the problem: Old Host does not allow ANY editing of DNS Records on their Name Servers. New Host allows Records to be changed, but you…
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DIG domain NS empty when no other records exist?

I asked our domain registrar to configure the name servers for a new domain. They said it was done so I checked: dig example.com NS Using Google's servers, this is what I get: dig example.com NS ; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> example.com NS ;; global…
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Revert back to manual text edits in Bind

I've tried searching for this online, but could not find an answer. We currently run a bind cluster with 1 master and 8 slaves in our infrastructure. One of the things I wanted to implement an automated way of doing updates instead of manually…
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Receiving emails in a different DNS provider, should I add MX or NS records?

This is similar, yet different than How should I setup separate MX records for a subdomain? in that I want another DNS provider to handle receiving emails from a subdomain. I have a DNS zone provided by OVH (I pay for my domain name there) a DNS…
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get NS record for domain using dig

I'm currently trying to write a script that validates, whether a given record attached to a name is available via all nameservers that are responsible for that name. E.g. I would like to check whether there is an A record for foo.example.com…
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Role of Authoritative NS record in bind9 compared with Non-Authoritative NS record in Registrar

Whenever we register a new domain name from a Registrar, we need to tell them what is the nameserver by providing them the dns server IP address. But in the same time in the zone file of our dns server (I will use bind9 in this case), we also add…
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I really want a wildcard NS record in BIND. Is there a workaround?

We have a public DNS provider, a private DNS master, and a private DNS slave. The public DNS provides the "example.com" zone, and all of it's subdomains. Our private DNS also provides the "example.com" zone, but some A records point to internal IPs…
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I want to point a domain name to my server, without changing any MX Records etc - do I change the A Records, the NS Records, or both?

My client has a domain name clientsdomain.com, with DNS records set out as such: Lookup has started… Trying "clientsdomain.com" ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21301 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0,…
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Self-hosted vs outsourced domain name for NS record

my-manageable-zone.com Let's say you have a DNS server with public IP address of 205.251.197.174 and you planned it to be an authoritative zone for my-manageable-zone.com. Basically, you have two options in preparing the DNS server to become a…
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Understanding NS Record and Authorative Server Better

I'm trying to understand how DNS works. Even after a quiet amount of searching it's still not clear to me how NS record works. Now I've following two facts. Fact 1 (based on this article, the first paragraph) An NS record or (name server record)…
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How is it possible to contain DNS A records without NS records for a domain?

Today I saw a domain that contains DNS A record but no DNS NS records. How is it possible to create A record without NS Nameservers? Example domain is: frankstudios.com dig for A records: root@ubuntu:~# dig @8.8.8.8 -t A frankstudios.com ; <<>> DiG…
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Should I use NS record or CNAMES for subdomains?

For subdomains should I use a CNAME or NS record? My registrar and hosting providers are different
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Setting the new domain as a domain pointer alias to the main domain

I don't have enough information about DNS and domains. I have a domain on my host and I want to add my new domain to point to the server. I find out that it can be done with domain pointers. I set the new domain in directadmin panel and from DNS…
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Partially propagated DNS?

Yesterday I made some changes to the Name Server records for a clients domain. Here's a link to a DNS propagation checker that shows the updated NS fields for only three DNS servers across the world. I understand that DNS settings are cached & take…
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How to set NS for second server?

I have a domain: example.com and have a server with IP 21.1.1.1 I set vanity/private/child nameservers for example.com as below: ns1.example.com with IP 21.1.1.1 and ns2.example.com with IP 21.1.1.1 And in server's WHM I set NS as…
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