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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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website not showing with www prefix. IIS7

I have just transferred my domain over to a new host so I could have a virtual server and more control. Everything seems to work ok if I visit example.com but if I visit www.example.com I just get the IIS7 screen. My settings for DNS have A records…
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Domain Security Advice: Backup Operators Group

Greetings I've been tasked with creating an automatic backup system that will backup a users home drive to their respective network drive that we have on a file server. After much hassle of actually getting this to work, I finally found a good…
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How do DNS servers interact?

If I register a domain,all the DNS servers will be updated with my domain,but who actually controls these DNS servers?I find them independent like godaddy.com,how do they interact with each other?Is there no system which controls all the DNS servers…
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I woud like to find out the performance of the nameservers our domain uses?

We monitor our website's homepage using websitepulse.com. They provide a detailed breakdown of the steps for fully downloading our homepage. I am seeing somewhat high variance in DNS lookup time. It can take anywhere between 200ms to 2 seconds. Our…
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DNS going back and forth new web host

i am having a problem with my dns. Like a week ago or more, i moved from ********** to hostgator, so i had to change the dns at my domain registrar (nic.ar) I started the dns change process, when it was over, i was able to reach the page at the new…
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BIND/RNDC - Why do my subzones work and my actual zone doesn't?

Here is my named.conf: view "external" { match-clients { any; }; match-destinations { any; }; recursion no; allow-query-cache { none; }; include "/etc/named.root.hints"; zone…
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active directory migration problem

We are migrating a domain into ours; for this example domaina is the existing domain, and domainb is the new acquisition. domainb is to become a sub-domain of ours. ADMT3.2 works great - we have migrated users and computers as well as some member…
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Point Domain To Dedicated Server

I have ordered a dedicated server and installed Windows server 2008 and managed to get it connected to the internet via IP address and also setup two role on it (IIS, DNS). Now I want to point a domain (like example.com) that already registered to…
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Redirecting http://support.domane.com to http://support.domain.com

I'm fighting a losing battle over here. I've got an easily misspelled domain name. So I purchased the misspelling. Now, I need to setup the misspelled domain name to redirect everything to the properly spelled domain name, but I need to keep the…
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How to make domain authentication with linux server and windows clients?

I want to make "desktop logon authentication system" for a large number of windows clients with a linux domain server. I have a dns server (bind9 on linux) and but not yet any kind of ldap system or server. Is it possible to make something like…
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Create addon domains from web page

I have a VPS (CentOS) with CPanel and Suphp enabled. Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_fcgid/2.3.5 As a root I created an account and set up a domain…
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How to get an A entry to map ports?

Possible Duplicate: How to use DNS to redirect domain to specific port on my server So here's the deal: I have a domain (say, mydomain.net) that I want to create subdomains for. Specifically, I want, say, crm.mydomain.net to map to…
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Restoring Active Directory if old server is defective

My Active Directory server/domain controller has a hardware defect and does not run anymore. Unfortunately I don't have any secondary controller, so the whole domain isn't available anymore. I do have backup of the disk. Is it possible to set up a…
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Which user takes precedence domain controller administrator or local PC user created using user account for Windows 2003

I need to know which user takes precedence, domain administrator or local PC user created using user account for Windows 2003. Basically, what I want to know is if there is a service running using a local user account when the domain controller…
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How to know if a DNS update is taking too long?

I just transfered a domain from one host and registrar to another. 48 hours later the site is still down. How do I know if I should just keep waiting or if there is a problem? UPDATE: nslookup says it's a NXDOMAIN (non-existant?) - what does that…
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