DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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Home pc as server
My dns A-record point to my home PC IP that most of the time is down. Does this fact can cause any troubles with my registrar or there is nothing to be worried?
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WHM local/external mail server confusion
We host several websites on the same server using WHM but this seems to confuse the mail routing when someone has their own external mail servers - it looks locally.
We have our own email accounts ...
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Does google contribute ranking from cdn.example.com to example.com?
Background
From my understanding, http://mywebsite.com/image.jpg, can help the ranking of http://mywebsite.com in a search engine, such as Google (obviously the search engine of primary concern).
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Redirecting 2 or more domains to same hosting server
I have domains A.com, A.co.in and A.in Purchased from site X.
I have a hosting space/account purchased from site Y, which has provided me with 2 DNS entries that is to be replaced in the account at ...
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Domain changes required for SSL integration
Currently my site supports regular payment options (User is taken to Payment Gateway/PG website). Now I'm trying to implement "seamless" PG integration. I need SSL for this. I'm having a dedicated ...
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curl to itself behind firewall
I have a server A which is configured behind a firewall and has 30.x.x.x public adress and 172.x.x.x internal address.
I'm trying to make a php Curl call from a script located on that server, to the ...
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I want to host clients' websites, but not their email. What's the easiest way to handle this? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host?
My company lets non-technical users build their own niche industry websites on our server, which we ...
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(Blogger) Map GoDaddy Domain For Blogger Custom Domain
I just bought a new domain from GoDaddy (nurayka.net) and I want to use it for my .blogspot.com blog now. Here is my Blogger settings. And here is my GoDaddy DNS settings. After more than 24 hours, I ...
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The concept of virtual host and DNS
I have a dedicated server and a mydomain.com (bought from a hosting company). I want to host a website from my dedicated server with the domain mydomain.com i.e. when I enter mydomain.com from browser ...
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My Herokuapp is inaccessible from custom domain name
I have a Heroku app that is located at myapp.herokuapp.com. I have mapped a domain name to this app, using the A properties. I followed the instructions on Heroku's website to the letter, and it ...
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access to site owner not working
I made a website it works for everyone except for the site owner, who cannot access the site. He gets a server could not be found error. I went to his house and the issue occurs for all of his devices ...
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Can too many 301 redirects cause a DNS error?
For a site http://imageocd.com that I just set up I initially spelled the category "automobiles" as "autimobiles"... I know it's rediculous. I then set up over 10,000 pages behind that category e.g. ...
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Access denied to visit a site without www
Why can I visit my own site: http://www.example.com but not http://example.com, which gives me
HTTP Error 403 (Forbidden): The server refused to fulfill the request
How do it fix it?
I wrote ...
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Allow a web designer to modify DNS without letting them transfer the domain?
We are in the process of having a web designer create a new website for us, but I don't want to give access to the control panel for the domain names (and have no way to limit it, it seems), while at ...
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Changed plesk root name, what DNS settings get modified?
We recently changed our Plesk server's main URL from siteold.com to sitenew.com.
Many websites had their NS set to ns1.siteold.com - does Plesk automatically update that to need ns1.sitenew.com? ...
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Does it matter that the TTL is higher than I've been told?
Ok, so the title isn't very descriptive, I know. Basically, I'm trying to configure Outlook.com to use my custom domain! I've followed the steps and made the account etc. and now I have the DNS ...
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DNS: point “WWW.domain.tld” record to another server than “domain.tld”
I have my own server in home and webhosting server. I want to have my server being accessible when typed domain.tld and webpage (from outside webhosting) over WWW.domain.tld.
Webhosting provider gives ...
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DNS records: make mydomain.com work without www
I am trying to configure DNS on my domain, however, I can only get it to work with the www prefix.
Right now I have the following DNS A records:
@ A 123.456.789
www A ...
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Domain Redirect to another using CNAME Record
I have a Domain, lets say maindom.com, now I want to have another Domain, lets say secdom.com to point to maindom.com such that all the URL's leads to maindom.com. I want to do this with the help of ...
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Mapping an amazon server to a domain name registered with name.com
I have an amazon S3 web server and a domain name registered in name.com (the name is sam-experiments.com). I am trying to have a static page hosted on the amazon web server to be displayed on ...
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How can i point wildcard domains to a folder in apache
I am developing an app using PHP and deploying it on Apache on the Amazon AWS environment.
This app requires to be made available to customers from their own chosen domain name?
How can i acheive ...
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Why won't Webmaster Tools let me set a preferred domain? (says to verify, but it should already be)
I've got a domain that I apparently forgot to set a preferred domain for, so I just tried to do it.
Webmaster Tools instead popped up a little box:
Part of the process of setting a preferred ...
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Sharing one static ip for both ftp and www service
Trying to figure out how to update the Zone record and configure webserver so that one application on the webserver is accessible by public. I'm completely not good at ...
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How to make a sub-domain an alias of other domain when a wilcard exist to that level in the dns server [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
vhost set up help — domain and ip point to the same site
I have recently set up Linux CentOS on a little VPS.
I have bought my own domain and made A records to my ...
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Find the IP address of expired domains
I want to know the previous hosting IP address of an expired domain. Is there any way find this?
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What is a “Public DNS registered IP address”?
I've been reading this ICANN agreement on new TLDs and it has this section on DNS service availability, which i don't completely understand:
Refers to the ability of the group of ...
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server downtime solution?
I am managing a few sensitive websites, that need to be up and running 24/7 how ever I worked with many VPS and dedicated server providers over the time.
The problem is that downtime is inevitable, at ...
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Is it OK for a DNS A record to resolve to another URL rather than an IP address?
My company use a domain registrar who also offer a web forwarding service.
We have a large number of different domain names purchased over the years and are using this web forwarding service to allow ...
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How can a domain use its own nameservers?
I have to change the MX DNS records for our company domain name and I've come across this odd situation:
A whois search shows up that the nameservers for ourcompany.com are ns1.ourcompany.com and ...
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How can I remove the security/malicious user warning from my website?
I have a domain name tradespring.net, and www.tradespring.net that redirect to my heroku app with a CNAME record. However when I first try to access these sites it gives me a malicious warning
This ...
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Best practice for adding the www subdomain: Via an A record or htaccess redirect?
Having used both methods in the past I just wandered which method is actually best practice when handling the www subdomain? Do I setup another A record in the DNS to point to the same IP ad the root ...
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Do I need a working DNS server to resolve another DNS server
I suspect this question might be more suitable to networking stack exchange but I didnt find any such site, so this seemed like the best place to ask it.
I recently moved back to my native country ...
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Setup Reverse DNS with Cpanel and WHM?
I needed to set-up a reverse DNS via cpanel. I followed the steps in this tutorial but it didn't work: http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/11_30/WHMDocs/RdnsForBind.
I use my own name servers ...
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What happened to the test@domain.tld syntax?
I can remember that some years ago several providers advertised the possibility to use the @ syntax instead of general subdomains with their DNS service. Today, I can't find any documentation or hints ...
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Is there a point to redirecting our collection of purchased domains?
We have 200+ domain names that we have purchased to prevent them from being poached and misused. These additional domains are not indexed, crawled or linked to. Is there a point to actually setting ...
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Use a custom domain and point to Tumblr blog
My domain mydomain.com is registered with GoDaddy. I wish to host my Tumblr blog on this domain with Nearly Free Speech hosting.
My active nameservers at GoDaddy already point to my authoritative ...
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SSL Certificate
I've received the email below from google about my wordpress site and have no idea how to follow the instructions. Any help out there?
Dear Webmaster, The host name of your site, ...
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Is it possible to have multiple subdomains point to the same Blogger blog? [duplicate]
For our application we want to have a status page which is hosted outside of the rest of our infrastructure so in case there are issues in our data center we can post updates for our users and our ...
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How to create an own domain name servers
i bought an domain from bigrock ,which has
dns1.digrock.com and
dsn2.bigrock.com as name servers .
but some website have there own domain name dns1.domain.com. Is it possible to create an own ...
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Domain name servers connecting time and details
According to Ping reports my web browser is looking up DNS information in 180ms to connect my domain. I registered that domain name from godaddy.com. At the same time it takes 10ms for connecting to ...
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Attach a Wordpress.org blog to my BigCommerce Store as a sub-domain
I am stuck in a peculiar situation. I have a store on BigCommerce configured with a domain from GoDaddy (mystore.com). I recently created a custom wordpress blog and hosted it on 1and1 hosting ...
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DNS propogation question with name server change
The registrar I have is networksolutions.com, and for quite a while, the name servers were pointing to Site5.com, where hosting is for one of my domains. I wanted to bring DNS control back to ...
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private whois but still list email-address?
I tried Googling it, but I couldn't find an answer.
I would like private whois, meaning I wouldn't want to display my home address etc.
However, I still would want to list email-address.
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SEO and multiple domains to same site
I have one website.
I have two domain names that I want to point to the same site install.
So whether you go to name-one.com or name-two.com you see the exact same site.
Now, I can either set up ...
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OS X Server DNS management
I have an OS X 10.6 Server running, which has PHP, Apache, MySQL, and DNS running on it. I want to take the DNS management out of the Server Admin App. I know that the DNS configuration files (the ...
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Confusion regarding SEO and a name, c name and 301 redirects
I have a VPS with and a domain from different hosters. I would like to know about the best practices for setting up the redirects regarding SEO as I am really confused about the different options.
I ...
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Non www to www redirection A record problem
I have told my domain registrar to set my domain like this:
www.domain.com -> IP1
domain.com -> A record IP2
www.domain.com works properly, but non www returns %20 before the real url www.domain.com
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Setting Nameservers to New Website Host While Maintaining External Email Host
I'm setting up a website for the company I work for and I've just purchased a hosting account. They already own their own domain name, but they have an external mail service they would like to keep ...
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How to setup a reseller account on a subdomain?
I have bought the aluminium reseller package on hostgator and specified a subdomain of an existing domain I already had as the primary domain.
How do I set this up in the hostgator whm panel and what ...
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Do I have to create a new master zone for every site in webmin?
I'm new to webmin and would like to use it for three sites.
Do I have to create a new master zone for each of my sites?
Thanks in advance.
