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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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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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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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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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Need to point WWW to another ip without impacting mail delivery

I have a client domain.com and on his DNS zone there is: @ A 50.50.50.50 www CNAME domain.com @ MX domain.com Is it possible to change the WWW to WWW A 200.200.200.200 And in the HTML site of 50.50.50.50 I just do an HTML REDIRECT to…
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DNS was changed but I was still seeing old site

I am facing a weird problem. I have a domain which is pointed to a server where my site is hosted, now the DNS of the domain was mistakenly changed to something else and it started pointing to somewhere else, but I was still able to see, login and…
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MaraDNS zone transfers

When attempting to do a zone transfer with MaraDNS 2.0.13, I'm getting the following in the logs: Sep 29 00:50:24 ns1 maradns.etc_maradns_mararc: Log: Message received, processing
Sep 29 00:50:24 ns1 maradns.etc_maradns_mararc: Query from:…
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Continuous migration of DNS server

Good morning, We are currently using CloudFlare to host our DNS zone. Yet, we'd like to move to Amazon Route53. And we'd like to make the switch progressively. We already have some apps in production, using some CloudFlare features such as SSL or…
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How to know when DNS zone is reloaded ? (ownercheck stage)

I have added the required TXT field in the ownercheck subdomain for a domain of mine. Once done I could redirect the domain to a webserver ip. But I'm a bit confused about the message by my hosting service (OVH): "Once done and your zone reloaded,…
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DNS server bind9, nslookup ;connections time out ; no server could be reached

I installed bind9 on my Ubuntu server 17.04 TLS in my VirtualBox oracle VM, then I configured the different configuration files of the DNS server /etc/bind/named.conf.local: zone "exemple.com" IN { type master; file…
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Can I have multiple mx records for a domain

I have a domain and I want that if one mx record fails then 2nd mx should takeover for sending and receiving mails.
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Experiencing DNS Resolution Issue on CentOS 7

I'm encountering an issue with DNS resolution not working as expected. Relevant Configuration/Setup: Operating System: CentOS 7 Server Software: BIND for DNS Network Configuration: Subnet configurations Hardware Specifications: Intel Xeon Gold…
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CoreDNS resolve private subdomain using custom zone file EXCEPT for some hosts needs public DNS

Using CoreDNS 1.9.4 on Kubernetes 1.26.3 The following server block is used to resolve hosts within mydomain.cloud mydomain.cloud:53 { errors health file /etc/coredns/custom/db.mydomain.cloud cache 30 } The zone file…
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Default scope resolution stops when DnsServerQueryResolutionPolicy is defined

##Create the DNS Client Subnets Add-DnsServerClientSubnet -Name "USSubnet" -IPv4Subnet "192.0.0.0/24" ##Add Zone Scopes Add-DnsServerZoneScope -ZoneName "woodgrove.com" -Name "USZoneScope" ##Add Records to the Zone Scopes Add-DnsServerResourceRecord…
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How do I point just the Website to another IP but keep the email to existing hosting? Is this correct?

How do I point just the Website to another IP but keep the email to existing hosting? Website has to point to IP: 202.51.74.81 Email has to point to: 202.63.240.138 We use the following for checking…
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adding txt record for domain verification

I would like to verify ownership of my domain by adding TXT record. For that i have two set of values 1)TXT Record Name: _acme-challenge.cooloffers.in Value: M6ozS9PeCBZ-Q1sw4mBuJ3tsbuLQTMAkISHF--noe0k TXT Record Name:…
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