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A collection of computers or other networked resources.

A collection of computers or other networked resources within an organisation. A domain is identified by a domain name. Domains can be divided into hierarchical sub-domains.

A Microsoft domain is such a collection, often managed by the Active Directory product. The centralized authority for a Microsoft domain is one or more Domain Controllers. These Domain Controllers are responsible for authentication and other security services within the domain.

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When I log on to my company desktop, I log on to a domain. How is this domain name installed?

When I have to work on my machine in company, I have noticed that I log on to a domain (named on the basis of company name) and not really on that computer. From, what I understand, this has a few advantages, the primary being that I just need one…
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Domain registrars supporting wildcard CNAME records

Please list some credible domain registrars supporting wildcard domains. Now I am with GoDaddy, and want to move to another one with the feature I need. Thanks.
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How do I configure zone file so that both, foo.com and www.foo.com work?

Currently, I simply have www 10800 IN A xx.xxx.xxx.xxx and with this, www.foo.com works, but not foo.com.
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How to configure multi domain nameservers in resolv.conf?

I have a server that has 2 domains pointing to it domain1.com and domain2.com. They both use the same name servers: dns1.vps.net and dns2.vps.net. When I run cat resolv.conf This is its contents: # Automatically generated by OnApp (2.0.rc5.i) …
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Lean & mean, basic SMTP server, for use over a single domain, no fwd'ing

Looking for recommendation for a light-weight, SMTP server, with basic capabilities (will be run on port#25, with authentication but clear-channel), and it's use shall be limited to a particular (or a small set of) domain(s), i.e. mail to/from same…
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How do I point 2 godaddy domains to my vps.net server?

I don't understand how this works. So I have 2 domains at godaddy. I set both there dns to dns1.vps.net and dns2.vps.net I have a vps setup at vps.net. I can SSH to this server using the IP address for my vps. I setup apache. I can now reach my…
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Domain name in server other than the website

I'm not very popular with hosting, but I have a special situation: I live in Tunisia, I can buy a domain name with .tn extention, but the problem is that: The domain could not be pointed to a server outside Tunisia All servers in Tunisia are bad,…
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Risks in raising domain Functional Level from 2003 mixed to 2008 native

We are in the process of replacing all of our Windows 2003 domain controllers with Windows 2008 R2 domain controllers. Once completed, we would like to then raise the domain functional level (of our forest and the domains) from 2003 mixed mode to…
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Can't sign in as a different domain user or join a computer to a domain over the VPN

I work remotely for my company, and use VPN to connect to the main office network and domain. The domain controller there is a W2k3 box. The workstation I use was joined to the domain before I moved it here, and so I can sign on using my domain…
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Mapping domain to a directory (not a site) in IIS7

I recently set up my own server, where I've since installed DotNetNuke in its own "site". Now, I want to map multiple domains to that DotNetNuke instance, using the child portals functionality. Thus, I want to map a domain to a directory, rather…
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How to set nameservers for Amazon EC2 instance

I created an instance using the standard Ubuntu 10.04 AMI and installed LAMP. Then associated an elastic IP with the instance. Now I want to make it accessible through my domain name; rather than an IP address. My domain is registered at…
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Route certain domains through oVPN

A small startup I work for has employees all over the world, including countries such as China where censoring is in place. All these employees connect to the corporate network through OpenVPN which works great. Now, I'd like the employees who are…
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A unique identifier for a Domain

I asked a question over on StackOverflow and was directed to ask a related one here to see if I could get any additional input. Basically, I am looking to have my application aware of what domain it's running under, if any at all. (I want to expose…
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Does setting an A record for a root domain set it (automatically) for subdomains?

I bought a domain from Dreamhost, but my servers are actually running on Amazon's AWS. I have an Elastic IP, say 1.1.1.1. In the Dreamhost panel, I've added an A record for my domain name, pointing it to 1.1.1.1. My question is, are all subdomains…
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Free Dynamic DNS Nameservers

I recently set up a server that I want to use as my primary hosting platform. So far, I've mapped some domains to it by setting up A records for them that point to my dynamic IP. As my IP can change randomly and without notice, however, I'm afraid…
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