Questions tagged [amazon-route53]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating human readable names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other.

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CloudFront Distribution for Origins in Multiple Regions

Is there a way to point CloudFront to different origin servers based on location? We currently use Route53 latency-based routing to direct traffic to east or west region elastic load balancers. If we deploy CloudFront, it sounds like the…
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How to set up an internal domain with Route53 on AWS?

I have a VPC on Amazon. Currently, it's running bind9 on one of the servers. It has records like this: build IN A 172.aa.bb.cc dev IN A 172.xx.yy.zz This works fine, but in the interest of simplicity, I…
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How do I create DNS entries for EC2 instances created by Auto Scaling?

I'm looking into using auto scaling groups for a tier of webservers that would be fronted by an ELB. One of the things I'm having a hard time with is how to give each new instance the proper DNS name. For example, I'd like webservers to have names…
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Whitelabel DNS with Amazon Route53

I've searched the internet for the answer, but I can't find it and this is because DNS management is not exactly in my skillset. I want to use Amazon AWS Route53 to host a multi tenant php application with loadbalancer and ec2 insances. I currently…
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Route53 domain and subdomain and fourth level wildcard?

I'm trying to configure a domain name setup like below and having trouble with Route53. base.com sub.base.com *.sub.base.com => CNAME sub.base.com I've attempt to create a new hosted zone sub.base.com and add the NS records to base.com. This does…
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How to setup AWS Route53 Alias and CNAME

I am experimenting with my newly written application on EC2. At the moment it is hosted on a particular EC2 instance, however I am sure that before I go live I will want to move it to another server, one that's larger or configured differently. …
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Can't resolve website using Google's public dns

I can't seem to be able access my site: yippie.nl, using Google's public DNS 8.8.8.8. Other DNS's work fine. Could this be due to DNSKEY? Cause Route53 doesn't provide it. http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=yippie.nl shows: Inconsistent security…
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Performance penalty when using CNAME

We are using the current CNAME record for a server, i.e. foo.example.com => CNAME => server1.example.com server1.example.com => CNAME => ec2-34-142-138-31.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-34-142-138-31.compute-1.amazonaws.com => A =>…
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route53 for multiple identical domains

My main domain is example.com, but also bought example.org and example.net. I've configured my webservers at *.example.com to handle requests from the other domains and redirect them correctly to example.com, but I'd rather not re-configure all my…
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Route53 only for wildcard subdomain

We recently moved our web application to AWS. One thing that is still managed by our old hoster is DNS. OLD HOSTER example.com. NS example.com. A *.example.com. CNAME …
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Alias cname record for zone apex

I am going to redirect example.com to www.example.com. I have several records now. example.com A 1.2.3.4 example.com NS "there are ns values" example.com SOA "SOA value" www.example.com CNAME mydom.example.com mydom.example.com A 5.6.7.8 I try to…
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Route53 stopped resolving DNS entries

As per the title. Last week, my TXT and other DNS records on Route53 stopped resolving: https://dnschecker.org/#TXT/thuijls.net The entries are set like: What else could be missing here? As far as I'm aware, nothing has changed since 2018. The…
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Moving DNS hosting for Active site to Route 53 - with G Suite MX TTL of 1 week

I am following the steps outlined in this AWS guide to transfer my domain hosting from GoDaddy to AWS. Step 4 requires me to lower TTL for my existing NS Record to avoid downtime if I encounter issues. However, I see I also have MX records for my…
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Will Route 53 geolocation routing behind CloudFront operate on users or edge location?

If I've got CloudFront set up with the origin being an address in Route 53, and geolocation routing for record in Route 53, will Route 53 do the geolocation based on the CloudFront edge location IP or the end user's IP?
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AWS Route53 - Getting simple metrics such as "number of requests in the last 24hrs"

My goal is to get a simple "# of requests per day" value against a Route 53 hosted zone. I see no straightforward way to do this. I have created the query logging as explained here:…
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