DNS that is visible within your corporate network and VPN, but which is not visible on the public Internet.
Questions tagged [internal-dns]
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BIND, RPZ and Forwarding priorities
My objective is to block certain domains in bind WITHOUT first looking up their address (this is a small caching bind dns server).
Currently my configuration will forward the request for badhost.com and get the IP address (I can see this in…

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Access libvirt+KVM virtual machines with DNS
I have an Ubuntu Trusty machine running KVM + Libvirt to manage small virtual machines, and using the standard NetworkManager to connect to regular networks.
I want to be able to access the virtual machines via DNS from the host.
Libvirt uses a…

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Ubuntu DNS Lookup Failure
Some one installed and configured ubuntu on a virtual machine hosted on a machine in our network. I've recently noticed that all DNS lookup's fail but i cant find a solution to this. I've tried a multitude of nameservers, edited the interfaces file…

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Large AXFR through dnsmasq causes dig to hang with partial results
I'm attempting to set up dnsmasq as a local cache for consul. While this seems to work fine for normal digs, dnsmasq seems to only allow partial zone transfers.
My resolv.conf:
search x.domain.com y.domain.com z.domain.com domain.com
nameserver…

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Decisions about DNS on IPv6
We are rolling out IPv6, and I'm thinking about our DNS strategy. This is not a technical question--it's more of a "best practice" question.
We have Active Directory internally, and the domain controllers handle both the authoritative DNS for our…

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How to fully disable Dynamic DNS on Windows Server?
so we're a University campus, and in DNS Manager, all the students phones, tables, etc, are registering their A records in DNS. We don't want them to. Ideally, we'd just have domain joined devices registering/updating their DNS records.
We've done…

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dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use
I got this error when i done the setup dnsmasq.
ashokkrishna@krishna:~$ sudo dnsmasq
dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use
ashokkrishna@krishna:~$ netstat -lpn | grep :53
(Not all processes could be…

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How to use CNAME to external hosts on local DNS Server?
I have a domain mydomain.com and I'm using an external DNS Server to resolve some names like www.mydomain.com and webmail.mydomain.com on Internet.
Now, I need to create a rule, only on my LAN, to resolve newserver.mydomain.com to…

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Run local dns-server that forwards dns querys to different dns nameservers
I would like to run my own local dns-server, that forwards only some dns-queries to special dns-servers and all others to the public google dns servers.
The database of the local DNS-Server should not cache the queries.
E.g.: all subdomains with…

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Resolve hostname without FQDN
I'm trying to configure Bind for internal LAN usage only (Linux server, Windows clients) and I would like to resolve workstation both by fqdn and shortname.
For example, without DNS server, supposing to have a host named host001 I'm able to do:
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IP address used by nslookup and ping is different
I have a web server hosted in the network. It has a domain name registered. However, I also host a DNS server for the LAN. So, when someone wants to access the web server, it would check the DNS server and use the internal address 192.168.x.x. The…

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Microsoft DNS: Provide different answers per-src-subnet to same query - do I need full split horizon/brain?
I have a network with two vlans, both of which refer to my AD server(s) for DNS. Some servers on this network are multi-homed.
Lets say we have the two subnets A: 192.168.7.0/24 and B: 192.168.5.0/24.
Then we have a server whose hostname is…

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NAT Reflection, or Split DNS?
I'm working on a network restructure that has three geographical locations, but will share some services. Two of the locations have workstations, and one has only servers (in a CoLo facility). We will be running PfSense firewalls, and several hosts…

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IPv6 over Cisco IPSec VPN?
We use a Cisco ASA 5505 as the firewall and IPSec VPN endpoint on our network.
We use split-tunneling to reduce the load on our internet link. In other words, when someone is connected to the VPN their DNS queries go through our internal DNS server,…

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How to intercept and manipulate DNS queries?
I'm not sure if I worded the question correctly to be honest but basically what I want to do is:
When a user types in something like Expenses in the URL bar of a browser, I want the browser to be directed to a specific web address (very very similar…

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