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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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Name Server for a domain name is its own sub domain - How to do that?

I want to assign nameservers for a domainname to its subdomain, similar to what google did. that is for google.com the name servers are ns1.google.com - ns4.google.com. I can setup a DNS Server. The part which I can't figure out as of now is how can…
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Can I point my DNS to nameservers of different web hosts?

I was told that the DNS for my domain is unreliable, so basically I was wondering Could I set my secondary DNServers that points to another webhost altogether ? : ns01.host-FOO.com ns01.host-BAR.com ns02.host-BAR.com ns02.host-FOO.com Or would…
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NS records, history

I may have screwed up with some dns records, is there any site, that keeps history of dns records, where I am able to see, for example, how they looked last week?
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Once mail hosting through Gmail is setup, is it easy to change web hosts?

I have a personal domain name, pointing to a simple cPanel-type shared hosting account. About six months ago, I decided that I wanted to use Google Gmail for hosting my domain name's email. In my shared hosting account, I added MX records…
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DNS Nameserver forwarding?

We currently have a number of clients that are pointing their domains at our old nameservers, for this example they are: NS1.OLDDOMAIN.COM NS2.OLDDOMAIN.COM We have moved the server to a new provider (the old server is still running) and the new…
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Is it a good idea to have a separate server for nameservers?

For example, if I'm hosting a website on a server in the USA, is it advised to buy another server in Canada or USA for example and use 2 dedicated IP addresses from that server to resolve my nameservers instead of using 2 dedicated IP addresses on…
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Confirming the existence of GLUE records

I have two domains, example1.com and example2.com. I run nameservers ns1.example1.com and ns2.example1.com. Example2.com uses these nameservers. Example1.com uses my registrar's nameservers. Under this scenario, I would expect not to need any GLUE…
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Secondary DNS server?

I'm looking for a service to host my secondary nameserver. I've been looking at DynDns because of the great feedback I see on ServerFault & other sites. But I'm looking at two of their plans: Custom DNS ($30/year) and Secondary DNS ($40/year). All…
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Can one IP be used for two different name server glue records?

Can one IP address be registered as two different name servers, for example, can one IP address be registered as both ns2.acme.com and ns2.beta.com with my DNS registrar? (I know one IP cannot and should not be both ns1.acme.com and ns2.acme.com) I…
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How is a nameserver chosen when DNS resolution occurs?

I have a few domains hosted on nameservers at Zerigo. Zerigo have 5 nameservers and I have all 5 in the nameserver records for my domains. The nameservers are in different geographical locations (3 in the US, one in London, and one in…
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How to specify which DHCP server to get the name server from?

I'm using Debian Lenny with two ethernet network cards, one plugged into a different network. My goal was to set both interfaces to DHCP, but I want the name server to be gotten from only one of them. The problem is, whoever gets the DHCP offer…
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Moving from one ISP to another; DNS PTR question

We are going to be moving from one ISP to another in the next month or so, and I will be changing the TTL's down to 60 seconds on the DNS servers that I have authority for, but our current ISP has authority for the reverse DNS zone. Since this is…
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How can I prevent someone else's name server registration from pointing to my IP addresses? (i.e. change com zone file)

I got a new IP address block from my ISP; lets call it 2.2.2.0/25. 2.2.2.1 and 2.2.2.2 get frequent DNS traffic; looking at the traffic; it's destined for the nameservers ns1.tp.com and ns2.tp.com. tp.com has ns1.tp.com and ns2.tp.com as their…
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Strange redirect to localhost! http://dp.000.in/?

I just accidentally typed imadb.com and after 2 redirects (I think) I ended up at: http://dp.000.in/ You can imagine my surprise when I noticed I was seeing my webpages on my local host! Can someone explain why dp.000.in points to the local host and…
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Is there any open source solution for failover of incoming traffic?

We have two ISP's and both ISPs' IP NAT with the same webserver IP. I want failover for incoming traffic, is there any open source solution? Can I do it by making two name servers, one for each ISP? I am not sure but as per my knowledge the primary…
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