DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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Redirect of www vs. “all works” [duplicate]
I was asked a question from a friend if he should redirect his-domain.com to www.his-domain.com.
I answered him that it seems more intuitive to just make both work. So if you enter by his-domain.com ...
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How long does it really take for web DNS change to propagate? [closed]
When you change your domain's nameservers to point to a different web host, there is a delay as the nameserver information "propagates" throughout the internet. This delay is typically quoted as 2-3 ...
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After changing DNS a domain shows differently on different browser?
I have changed the nameserver's of one of my domains but I found a problem that within Firefox these changes have not updated as expected, however this problem does not occur in other browsers such as ...
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Should I create zone for each domain that I want to host on my server
I'm setting up a web hosting on my VPS, I want to host several websites on my vps, I have two domains, domain1.com and domain2.com and a website for each hosted on iis, I know that I should add these ...
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Setting up DNS web server from scratch [closed]
I am a novice in setting up webserver. Where should I get a step by step instruction for setting up the DNS for my new web server.
Server: Windows 2008 Server R2
I have a Static IP.
Two domains need ...
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Cannot access area of site using www, without it works
Struggling with this one.
I recently bought hosting and domain name. I have put a holding page on the site, plus installed wordpress in the directory /wordpress.
Going to ...
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DNS: forward part of a managed domain to one host, but sub domain services to another (Google Apps)
I was going to post this as a comment against DNS: Forward domain to another host, but I don't seem able to do that.
I'm in a similar situation. I have a DNS registered/managed by enom, except with ...
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create redirect of subdomain [closed]
I have a new app server that will run an ftp server and a few other things. It won't run a web server.
I want to put that app server on a subdomain so that I can access it. So ultimately I will be ...
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if I specify a wildcard dns entry will it override any specific values?
I have
cheese.mycompany.com - 1.1.1.1
I want to go
*.mycompany.com = 1.1.1.2
without effecting cheese ? Will this work, just having two seprate dns entries ?
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Can I keep domain directed with DNS as the URL showing to another hosted domain? [closed]
Can't find the answer to this. Have a hosted account with www.myhosteddomain.com with the www.maindomain.com directed by DNS to it. The www.maindomain.com is what I want displayed as the URL. It works ...
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ICANN nTLD applications acceptance [closed]
I've been paying attention to the new list of new TLDs being applied for, for a good while now.
And after thinking through the whole thing, it looks like an absolute trainwreck that will just ruin ...
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Separate Nameserver and MX server at different providers [duplicate]
I have a DNS + Mail service with hosting company HostA for a domain mydomain.com and would like to use the servers of FreeDNS as nameservers so that they will resolve web requests to my home server's ...
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How to make Thunderbird recognize our Google Apps domain? [closed]
When setting up a new email address in Thunderbird, it makes a guess for the correct server settings (IMAP/SMTP) so users don't need to type everything in them selves.
For most of the domains I ...
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blah.com works, www.blah.com doesn't
I've found many a common question but unfortunately none of them really directly answered my inquiry, below is a copy paste of the info I am provided by xname.org I've replaced my .com with blah.com, ...
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Domain only forwards with external hosting
I have a domain with Namecheap and hosting with 1and1. Forwarding is no problem - domain.com goes to the right page. The problem arises when I navigate to another page on the website, when it reverts ...
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Why does modx-based site start using different domains for some content?
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I have a modx site on a VPS with multiple domain and subdomain names. The modx site should use what I call the 'primary' domain name's 'primary' subdomain, ie www.intendedname.tld . The ...
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Domain name issues [1&1]
I'm trying to make my domain name point to my web-server.
I own a domain through 1&1, and I have a linux computer I have set up to run as my web-server. I'm a student at college, and my college ...
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issue with Domain, DNS and Hosting
I bought domains from GoDaddy.
I bought hosting from NFS.
I changed my DNS from GD to NFS.
Do I require to host DNS on NFS for website to work properly, or can I host DNS back on GD?
I am paying ...
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different mail boxes for domain alias on domains.live.com using plesk
I have 1 Primary domain and 5 Aliases.
Primary Domain is:
PrimaryDomain.com
Aliases are:
alias1.com
alias2.com
alias3.com
alias4.com
alias5.com
I like to create following separate Inboxes on ...
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I want to redirect subdomain.domain1.com to domain2.com/directory using DNS
I own 2 domain names "domain1.com" and "domain2.com", I want to redirect subdomain.domain1.com to domain2.com/directory using DNS (preferably). Can anyone assist (I am an amateur at domain ...
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web url forwarding to different port and subdirectory
I would like to forward anyone going to subdomain.old-domain.com:8014 to this new address subdomain.new-domain.com:8000/subdirectory (note a different domain AND different port PLUS a subdirectory)
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Point 1&1 hosted domain to my account which is also on 1&1 [closed]
My site is hosted on 1&1 and a friend who am I building a site with purchased a domain with 1&1 also. I created a folder and subdomain which is pointing to that folder. I cannot figure out how ...
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Selling a Domain Name. What scams should I be on the lookout for? [closed]
I'm selling a domain name. The transaction is being conducted through escrow.com. Payment will post in a few days at which time we'll transfer the domain name.
I'm no domain name expert. Is there ...
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Tumblr Custom Domain not redirecting properly
I decided to host my blog at Tumblr, using their custom domain setup (http://blog.smokingfishgames.com/ instead of http://smokingfishgames.tumblr.com). However, it's been 72 hours and I'm still ...
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How to serve a DNS record for a hosted domain and Minecraft server?
I'm using DreamHost to host the domain craftnetwork.co. The Minecraft Server needs to be hosted on subdomain.craftnetwork.co. Can I setup DNS records to direct users to a website when in a browser and ...
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Pointing a sub domain to another server using directi control panel while domain.com is not hosted
Do we of course need a host for domain.com? Unfortunately currently the host for domain.com is down, so sub.domain.com cannot be redirected to where it should.
Is there a way to at least activate the ...
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Set up stand-alone IIS server with wildcard SLL cert?
We have a server for IIS 7.5 set up in our DMZ zone for clients to connect to through VPN only, so the client connects through VPN and then uses a web service "locally".
We would like to apply our ...
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google apps domain verification issues
I apologize for asking this here instead of Google's forums, but I find that they tend to yield no results at all, ever.
I have a domain verified on Google Apps through HTML file upload, which I am ...
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CNAME: does a cname change the url that the browser displays?
I have a web site www.somewhere.com and I want the alias fr.somewhere.com.
I set up a CNAME record for www.somewhere.com alias fr.somewhere.com. When a user types in http://fr.somewhere.com in their ...
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Wildcard dns record point to multiple servers
I would like to give my users their own subdomain like jack.xxx.com, james.xxx.com, and is using wildcard dns record to do that.
But now I would like to separate users into multiple servers, like ...
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Process of DNS resolution using nslookup starting from root nameservers
I understand broadly the theory of how a DNS resolver goes through the domain hierarchy querying nameservers to resolve a domain name from the root namespace downwards however I would like to try ...
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How to begin editing sites? [closed]
I'm new to creating web-sites and I have just registered a domain name here: from Europe Registry and started trial version of hosting from: ispserver.com.
I shall connect domain and hosting somehow ...
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creating unlimited sub domains programmatically through api
Note
Consider each subdomain as unique application instance
For information about application architecture visit
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Is all data about a domain name provided to a TLD registry by the registrar visible on Whois?
I am trying to understand more about how the domain registration process works between the registry and the registrar. My question is when a domain name is registered by a registrar such as GoDaddy, ...
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website won't work without www. on 123-reg [duplicate]
I've got a website that works with my custom domain name with the www. but when I type it in without the www. it doesn't show up, and I've had customers wondering if my website is down because of ...
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Keep mail going to old server while hosting on a new server [duplicate]
I'm trying to figure out how to keep mail going to an old server/MX record (which is the same as the domain for the website), after I change the A record for the domain.
Here's what I have now (with ...
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Redirecting www.foo.example.com to foo.example.com
I have a Cpanel web hosting account and have created a subdomain which redirects to an IP address of a different server (Windows IIS) by creating an A record. I don't have control of the Windows ...
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Create a public website on home computer [duplicate]
I posted this Stack Overflow question last week about setting up a Private IP, not knowing a lot about it. I'm not used to this home server stuff. ...
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no-ip.com how to hide static IP address
I'm using no-ip.com in "Port 80 redirect" mode - in fact my provider doesn't mind port 80 being used it's just I don't want to reveal my static IP. When I type the alias (from either local or remote ...
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Domains with no name servers?
I have a few ccTLDs (.my) domains and I've just realised that there is no name servers for them at all. I wonder how that is even possible? Did the vendor whom I bought the domains from do something ...
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Private NS propagation
I have a client that asked me to move his domains to a new private server, this is my first experience on using private name servers so I am unsure if I am doing something incorrectly.
According to ...
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making www.foo.com go to srv5.bar.net/~foo
What I need accomplished is when a person out there in internet-land types in www.foo.com they are actually getting served content from srv5.bar.net/~foo
I have root access to both the nameserver ( ...
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What is the maximum number of DNS A-records you can use on one domain?
Is it correct that there is no limit to how many DNS A records can be set on a domain?
My boss asked me this and it made me curious, I can't find anything online.
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Domain, Hosting and DNS management on 3 seperate providers - is this possible?
I wanted to know if its possible to do the following:
Buy Domain from GoDaddy.
Buy Hosting from HostGator.
Buy DNS Management from DNS Made Easy.
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How DDNS can link to 3G simcard dynamic IP
I have CCTV that work via 3G (use simcard). I can access it directly using dynamic IP but as it keep changes, I won't be able to access it. My question if I set DDNS on CCTV, how can DDNS detect the ...
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How do I set up an `A record`?
I have Apache installed on an EC2 instance (with an Elastic IP). I successfully used NameCheap's DNS tool to configure routing of www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com traffic.
If I have a web ...
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DNS domain redemption policy
I want to know if my registrar could have done what I expected, and if they could still fix the mistake. See QUESTIONS below.
I intentionally deleted a domain name with my host/registar, because I ...
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What are different types of redirects and when to use them? [closed]
The main types I know of are:
doing a 301 redirect in htaccess, by putting few lines in the .htaccess file, all requests are automatically redirected to a new address.
doing a CNAME redirect (not ...
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Is it possible to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS?
I need to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS, My DNS server have much more options that I do need.
Instead of setting cloudflare as my dns server, I have added it as a NS record from ...
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Which way to forward alternate domains?
I have a few alternate domains that I want to point to my main domain:
Main: awesomewebsite.com
Alternates: awesomewebsite.net, awesomewebsite.co, awesomewebsite.me
Which is the best way to forward ...
