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A name server is a computer server that hosts a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service.

A name server is a computer server that hosts a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It maps a human-recognizable identifier to a system-internal, often numeric, identification or addressing component. This service is performed by the server according to a network service protocol.

Examples of name servers is the Domain Name System (DNS), one of the two principal name spaces of the Internet. The most important function of these DNS servers is the translation (resolution) of human-memorable domain names and hostnames into the corresponding numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, the second principal Internet name space which is used to identify and locate computer systems and resources on the Internet.

Source: Wikipedia.

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How to get a cheap nameserver

I have some domain names and a hosting package at a certain provider. It is not a very advanced package, so I have no option to create a nameserver there. I have one domain name that I want to turn into a nameserver for the other domains. So all my…
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DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds

i had setup bind dns server on centos. from local lan it will work fine but from remote when i tried to nslookup ..it will give reply like "DNS request timed out...timeout was 2 seconds." what is the problem? this is my bind config---- // Red Hat…
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nslookup works but ping doesn't

I have a server running Debian etch. It runs qmail and sends mail. Mail server works correct but the strange thing is from server itself it can't resolve hostnames. I can use nslookup and dig correctly. #ping google.com ping: unknown host…
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DNS Name Not Resolving After Transfer to Route53

I transferred a domain name from GoDaddy to Amazon Route53 but I'm not sure I performed the transfer properly, particularly regarding the nameservers. My issue is that the domain name is not resolving. The A records should be pointing it to the web…
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dnsmasq: one domain, half private, half public?

Our internal office network has the same top-level domain as our company online presence, e.g. ourdomain.com. For the outside world, any public hosts (eg. blog.ourdomain.com, download.ourdomain.com, www.ourdomain.com, etc.) are configured in the DNS…
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DNS - how does it resolve the name servers itself?

Domain name: abc.com Name Server: ns1.abc.com and ns2.abc.com I am running a DNS server and hosting the zone (abc.com) on-premise. When a client wants to resolve *.abc.com, it will query ns1.abc.com or ns2.abc.com, that is straight forward. The…
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MX records for wildcard and subdomains

I would like to setup the MX nameservers of a domain domain.com so that every income email goes to mailgun (or other inbound email processor), including all the possible subdomains @*anything*.domain.com except @hq.domain.com that uses Google…
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Where does my ds record originate from?

The domain dwc-amsterdam.com was acquired on hosting company A (hostA) which supports DNSSEC. It was then transferred to hosting company B (hostB) which doesnot offer DNSSEC. After detecting certain issues with the domain the culprit seems to be the…
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BIND dns high performance caching

I'm running bind on a small server used for resolving lots of domains, my main goal is fast resolving of domains and low memory usage. I want to use something like local zone with the nameservers of all TLDs dig . axfr @g.root-servers.net. What is…
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Name Server change & propagation works partially : Success for US and fail for India

Our domain is hosted with Enom. DNS records are managed under Enom's reseller for India called Pugmarks. We want to switch DNS record management service from Enom/Reseller over to AWS Route53, however, retaining Enom as the domain registrar. TTL for…
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What is the minimal possible bind configuration that works?

I have been trying to make bind work on Fedora 21, and haven't succeeded doing it. I read a few tutorials which basically instructed me to create a zone for my domain and an inverse mapper, then found a tool called system-config-bind from Red Hat,…
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Why is my dns server being queried for domains that I don't host?

I installed dnstop to monitor my nameserver running bind9 and was surprised to see it being queried for other domains that I don't host. I am just wondering if this is normal behaviour, or have I configured something incorrectly? Edit: I just had a…
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How does my registrar (Namecheap) let me set up a CNAME record on the apex domain?

Namecheap seems to let me create a CNAME record on the apex domain, which I thought was contrary to the definition of a CNAME record: It works (correctly loading up my static site from S3). Weirdly (and I'm not sure if it's related), there seem to…
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Checking Nameserver setup from command line

Is there a way to check if my domain is setup correctly on the nameservers? Ideally I'd like to run a command from command line, alternatively can use a third party tool. for example, I'm trying to register a domain that's to be hosted on…
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A Week after changing nameservers most users are still getting old site

I changed the nameservers for our client 7 days ago - their domain registrar is doteasy.com and I've spoken with them several times over the last few days. I understand that nameservers need to propagate but I don't see why this has taken so long.…
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