Questions tagged [domain]

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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The to. top level domain

Possible Duplicate: How the heck is to./ a valid domain name? How is http://to./ a valid domain? It's the only thing I've ever seen with '.' as the last character in the domain name. Ping won't even hit it. Are there any other examples of domains…
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Hosting multiple domains in exchange server 2003

My company recently acquired another firm. I am thinking of bringing their mailboxes onto our email server (Exchange Server 2003). Can I host multiple domains on my exchange server? Where can I find information on this? Can I do this without…
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Find sites hosted together?

Would i be able to look up my server IP and find all the site hosted under it? Is there another way to find a group of sites? perhaps not using their IP?
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Trying to reach a site from its IP instead of its Domain

When trying to call a web site from its IP instead of its Domain Name, I get different pages. I'm not sure what the issue is, but since these are development servers of some client I'm doing work for I was wondering what would cause this.
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Redirect 301 or RedirectMatch 301 not working for me

So this is my scenario: I have 1 static IP and 2 servers. 1 server is a web server the other is a mail server. I have a router as a hardware firewall with all the ports are set that require passthrough to internal ip addresses . If a user types the…
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Add a subdomain that is hosted elsewhere

I am quite inexperienced with DNS, so this might be simple. Our main domain foo.com is hosted at provider A. Now, we would like to host bar.foo.com at some other provider B - they have the domain set up with them, so I figure that I can do this by…
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Question about Domain Forwarding [beginner]

Just a quick beginner's question here. I have a webapp located at domainxyz.com, and it generates short URLs for long posts automatically - so rather than visit domainxyz.com/reallylongpostnamehere I can just type domainxyz.com/a5c and be taken…
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Redirect subdomain to subdomain on new domain

I own 2 domains sio-india.org and sio-india.com What i want to do is redirect all the subdomains from 1st domain to 2nd domain. eg. home.sio-india.org to home.sio-india.com but i dont want to redirect sio-india.org to sio-india.com and also dont…
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What right does a domain administrator have in a SBS and Win 7 environment?

What rights and priviliges does a domain administrator have in a SBS and Win 7 environment?
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Issue with www to non www redirect

I am on slicehost and I followed the articles that they gave for DNS redirection and the www to non www url redirection does work. However, what if I want a www.domain.com to be the default domain. Would I put www.domain.com. as my DNS record name…
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Dynamically hosting new domains on Apache

I'd like to dynamically be able to host client's domains, with just having to provide them instructions like this: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_domains I'm running a pretty typical LAMP stack; any good tutorials for configuring this for…
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Samba networking with a domain-joined computer

I have two computers connected to the same linksys router - one running Ubuntu 8.04 and one running Windows 7. The Windows computer is part of a work domain (when connected via VPN). I'm trying to also create a home network so I can access the…
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How can I add a secondary DNS server for specific record types?

My hosting provider won't support certain DNS records (SPF, long CNAMEs, etc), but I refuse to switch providers. I have my own local DNS with a forward zone for my domain, and I'd like to use my local server for SPF, while keeping my provider's…
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What are the benefits of Domain transfer?

I want to transfer my domain from external domain server to my webhosting's domain server. is there any benefit?
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Discover all websites that point to an IP address

Our company owns over 60 domains and a few external IP addresses (several domains share an external IP address). How do I discover all the domains that use a particular IP address (e.g. 69.x.x.7) without going through the DNS information on each…
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