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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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BIND/DNS - dig +trace = Bad Referral and Bad Horizontal Referral

I have an interesting problem. I started noticing that when I do a dig +trace against one of the domains we are authoritative for, we get errors from our nameservers for "Bad Referral" and you can see where it forwarded the request back up the…
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Slave DNS server (bind) zone files transffered but data is unreadable

I've set up a slave DNS server on Linux using bind. On starting the named service the zone files transffered to slaves/ but the information in the files looks like its in strange computer symbols (i'm not sure what the correct term is for this)…
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Alternative ways to get past 32 rpz zone limit in BIND? ...without running BIND a thousand times

Using BIND RPZs gives me exactly what I'm looking for to alter queries. However, my recursive DNS server is in use by hundreds of clients and I am looking for a way to allow each client some level of customization. There's possibly a couple hundred…
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bind9 got "bad zone transfer request"

My Debian-server acts as a DNS server for the domain I own. Since my ISP also allocated me a sub-domain, my DNS server also has a few entries for that host. In other words, I have /etc/bind/db.domain-i-own.tld with a few entries and…
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BIND SERVFAIL after upgrade to Debian Jessie

I've done absolutely nothing to my BIND configuration, but looks like Debian Jessie upgrade has broke it. Maybe some new options got introduced to it, or the old things now work differently, but I cannot find what's going wrong. I got SERVFAIL in my…
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Can the dns' domain be in its own spf record?

I'm finally fixing up my dns zone files in Gandi, which has a handy feature that lets me use the same zone file for several domains. So I can keep 1 zone file for a single domain and all its tld's. But normally, when you set up the SPF record for eg…
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Is @ the same as the IP address for @ in the MX record entry of a zone file?

I have the following configuration in my DNS Zone. I want to switch the @ record to a different IP address, but I want to keep the MX records the same. Please note the IP address has been changed to 76.13.141.185 to protect privacy. So, what I'm…
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dig: "Transfer failed."

INPUT: dig +multiline google.com axfr OUTPUT: ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-RedHat-9.7.3-1.fc14 <<>> +multiline google.com axfr ;; global options: +cmd ; Transfer failed. What am I missing? Regarding: DNS Lookup to Bind config file
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BIND: one forward, multiple reverse?

How do I deal with the case where a domain has addresses in more than one subnet? EG: (bob.com) joe.bob.com A 14400 10.20.0.10 jim.bob.com A 14400 10.20.0.11 mary.bob.com A 14400 10.20.1.10 susan.bob.com A 14400 10.20.1.11…
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How to check for the existence of deep subdomains even if the intermediate ones don't exist?

Suppose that test.example.com don't exists and gives NXDOMAIN when runnning dig on it , but i know that subdomain.test.example.com exists and gives NOERROR when doing the same, is there a way to check that a deep subdomain exists even though the…
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Windows DNS server: host a zone, but forward unknown entries

We have a split brain DNS scenario in our company where we have the same entries pointing towards different IPs. Example1: Internal DNS: email.company.net (A) 172.20.1.1 External DNS: email.company.net (A) 22.191.72.18 So email is just one of the…
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List the name servers in the DNS Zone properties GUI with Powershell

I have read through a listing of all the DNS powershell cmdlets and can't believe I didn't find a programmatic way of reading the below list. Am I missing it, or is there a .NET way to do so that I didn't also find?
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BIND Zone Transfer with two views

I have a simple lab/testing Master/Slave configuration (showed below) and I would like to transfer both views to the slave. Unfortunately after the zone transfer both views in slave have records from "external" view from the master. I've read…
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Lightsail instance requests time out with domain name but work with IP address

I'm attempting to create a BookStack site on an Amazon Lightsail instance. I'm having an issue where my static public IP address attached to my Lightsail instance will go to my site just fine, from any browser or computer. However, my domain address…
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PTR not showing in dig request

I am trying to set up a PTR for reverse DNS so that mail that gets sent from me scripts doesn't get blocked due to reverse DNS failure. I beleive my zone is set up correctly, however me "thinking" it's correct and "knowing" it's correct are 2…
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