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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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share cannot be opened using FQDN from the same server it is on

we have shares on a server that should open without asking for credentials (current user has permissions there). The server has several other records in another dns zone leading to it's ip. We can open the share from other servers in the domain by…
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Insecure Connection: issue on www redirect to non-www with https

I am not much familiar with server configurations, please help me on this issue: I have a Debian8 server and a SSL certificate, the SSL certificate only for My non-www domain so I would like to redirect all of www request into non-www, by below…
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DNS Server - 2 Domains - 2 DNS Servers - Replicate DNS between two domains in 1 LAN

We have 2 DOMAINS (x.local and y.local) with both own AD and DNS environment. How can I link the DNS lookup zones from both DNS servers to eachother. So when a client from one domain can resolve DNS names from the other domain withouth manually…
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What are possible security issues with TLD not being secured with DNSSEC, even if subdomain is?

We are working on a stablished network with a BIND9 server running (as well as many other services). I'm learning and trying to reorganize the old configuration files to comply with the present day (Many dead machines, unused names, reverse mapping…
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Syncronize SOA serial numbers explanation

I made two successive mistakes while updating zone records. Once I forgot to increment the serial number, then next time I did put a digit more ie 20170210111 instead of 2017021011, and each time I reloaded config : rndc reload. When I realised it,…
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How to tell ISC DHCP correct zone for reverse zone DDNS update?

I've got an ISC DHCP server running (version 4.2.5) which is configured to dynamically update the reverse zone on a DNS service with the hostname it receives via a dhcp DISCOVER package. It all works fine on zones like 2.1.10.in-addr-arpa but this…
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how to find out who is managing my DNS records?

I have a following situation: a website is registered with registrar X, hosted on server Y and about to move to server Z. The both servers Y and Z do not manage the domain DNS as according to them “it is managed by the company it was purchased…
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Secondary DNS different SOA record

we are managing our DNS data at Azure DNS. They provide 4 NS for redundancy, but just two days ago the whole Azure DNS service went down for a few hours, and all of our services with it as well. Now i'm looking for a better redundancy for such a…
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No MX records?! Zone file for Shopify vs. hosted email

One of my hosting clients has a website: www.vincedevito.ca. Some time ago, he decided to use Shopify as his primary website, but I still host his email. Therefore, I set up a DNS Zone with GoDaddy. ; SOA Record VINCEDEVITO.CA. 3600 IN SOA…
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What are the implications of inserting a DKIM record for a third party sending email on our behalf?

Our organization is setting up an account with a third party cloud service that will be sending emails on our behalf. Our marketing department would like to eliminate the "via" or "on behalf of" bits that some clients show so that it looks like the…
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Two DNS zones: one for internal, the other for DMZ servers, is it possible?

I currently work in a company that has two DNS servers (ns1 and ns2) open to the Internet on the DMZ, and it's hosting two zones: company.org and company.net. In both zones there are servers in the DMZ and in the internal LAN, and recursion is…
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CNAME Record with any other Resource Record in BIND

As per best of my understanding, CNAME can't exist with any other RR in DNS Server. I am using BIND 9.9.5. Now when i am adding CNAME record with a domain which already has NS Records, i am not getting any warning or error while checking zone with…
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Wildcard Sub-domain of Sub-domain

I have the domain example1.com - DNS managed at Linode.com There is a site hosted at example1.com (1.1.1.2) and it works fine. I have an A record for example1.com that points sub.example1.com to 1.1.2.2 I can confirm requests to sub.example1.com…
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Why is my NS record ns.mysite.com.mysite.com?

I ran this command # dig mysite.com @localhost The result was the below and my zone file is below that. Why is the AUTHORITY SECTION ns.mysite.com.mysite.com? Instead of ns.mysite.com? Another thing bothering me is how does anyone find mysite.com?…
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What is the minimal possible bind configuration that works?

I have been trying to make bind work on Fedora 21, and haven't succeeded doing it. I read a few tutorials which basically instructed me to create a zone for my domain and an inverse mapper, then found a tool called system-config-bind from Red Hat,…
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