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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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What's the role of the machine pointed by an A record in DNS?

Let's suppose we have the following DNS zone: A record: 88.150.22.130 MX record: 88.150.22.131 SOA record: 88.150.22.132 NS record: 88.150.22.133 A record for subdomain "www" : 88.150.22.134 (the web server) A record for subdomain "ftp" :…
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What's returned in a DNS query?

In a DNS query (any query), is just the requested record returned or is the entire zone file returned? ie, if I ping google.com in the command line, will just the A-record be returned or will the entire zone file for google.com be returned?
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How to know MX record details of a subdomain or destination server to which emails are routed in a case co-existent of two service provider

In case of two co existent service email provider for one domain. How can i know the mx record of a destination server if I don't know the details of a subdomain. Are there any tools to detect the mx record of a sub domain or destination server…
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Can we create a CNAME alias for something like docs.mysite.com/xyz

We maintain links to the documents coming from the following 3 sources. 1. docs.abc.com 2. docs.def.com 3. docs.ghi.com But we do not give a direct link to the user. So we give the links to the documents, like the…
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What does a domain registrar do?

What does a domain registrar actually do? As in, do they facilitate you registering your domain name with the registry? Do they host your domain? I downloaded a couple of top-level-domain zones, they're just a list of NS records. So my question is,…
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Meaning of root zone

In a db.root file, what are these lines supposed to mean? $TTL 86400 . IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.EDU. root.A.ROOT-SERVERS.EDU. ( 1 ; serial number (update count) 28800 ; refresh (8 h) 7200 ; retry (2 h) 604800 …
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How to do "dynamic apex" right in DNS/BIND?

I want to retain dynamic control of the apex, but not break standard handling of other RRs (NS, MX). Context A domain name (exampleA.net) is controlled by the domain owner (via the domain registrar). The website shall be placed in exampleB.net…
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