DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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What nameserver should I use?
Let's say that I have site.com website that I bought at one place, but want to host on another place. I don't know what to do. Here is scenario.
I bought site.com on company that is using their own ...
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Creating a DNS Server
I want to create a DNS Server (like Google does - 8.8.8.8). I understand that a DNS Server is a Server that gives a IP on being given a hostname, ie. when I ask it what is the IP of google.com, it ...
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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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Redirection based on user's location
I'm about to redirect my French users from mysite.com to mysite.fr. Is it possible using DNS CNAME records or should I write some GEOLocation codes to do that?
I will appreciate any other ideas.
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A record not resolving
I have a hosted domain at siteground. On this domain & host I have a subdomain with a wordpress install. I wish to move this blog to another host (hostgator), while keeping the domain with ...
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Economical DNS hosting separate from local registrar for country specific TLDs - email or web hosting not required
Our company owns many country specific top level domains (TLDs; .sg, .my). We will purchase more for other countries in all South East Asia.
These domains are associated with our websites hosted on ...
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Is is good or bad to have the email address of a domain's registrant on the same domain?
Say I own domain abc.com.
I think it's a bad idea to use eric@abc.com as the registrant's (myself) email address.
This will cause problems when I need to transfer the domain to another registrar e.g. ...
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Is this SPF record correct?
I need to set up a SPF record to allow an alternative IP address to send our newsletter emails. The main IP hosting the site still needs to be allowed to send email also.
Would the following work?
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How to use Cloudflare and Namecheap email forwarding at the same time?
I want to use Cloudflare, and it requires that I use their nameservers.
The problem is that I'm using some features from Namecheap like email forwarding, which will be disabled (if I didn't get it ...
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Where can I learn about managing domain names for my websites? [closed]
[I originally asked this question on serverfault.com, where it was closed as 'out of scope.' Hopefully it is appropriate for this forum]
I am a developer who doesn't understand how to effectively ...
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How do I change my name servers for Sedo Parking?
I wanted to park my domain with SedoParking. It says to change it to ns1.sedoparking.com. I did change the start and www to that. But the A (Address) has to be an IP. So How do I change that?
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Use Google Apps mail with website on a separate web host
We've bought a domain through the free Google Apps service and use the Gmail account provided. I'm thinking of hosting our own site on a separate web host, but emails sent to our domain might be ...
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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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Redirect/Rewrite Subdomain to Subfolder
I'm trying to redirect a subdomain to a subfolder e.g. forums.domain.com to www.domain.com/forums
Note that I started the forums in the subfolder format but worried that members might mistakenly try ...
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Cache website via CDN for visitors, not for users
I'm not sure what this is called. For example, if you're logged out of Reddit, you see a cached, static version of the site from the CDN. When you're logged in, you don't hit the CDN and instead ...
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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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Dotted subdomain name or new domain?
I have a company website hosted at www.BRAND.com (where BRAND is a generic name).
The company want to develop a "micro website" for one of their campaigns, named "Inspired By BRAND".
I have two ...
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Does geographic location of domain registrator matter?
Does it matter where I register my domain geographically when I'm planning to change nameset (nameservers) to a server in my target area?
Example
Target audience: USA
Server location: USA
Domain ...
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Can web applications running on IIS7 Windows Server 2008 R2 be forced to immediately detect changes to hosts file?
We have several web applications running on several load-balanced servers. We want to have our web applications communicate with each other without first traversing outside the load balancer.
For ...
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How Does Domain Know Where Your Web Host Is Located [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How Does Domain Know Where Your Web Host Is Located?
I just purchased a domain name from RapidNames, and a hosting plan at JustHost. I was told to enter JustHost's name ...
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Is it time to add IPv6 access to my websites?
I have several dedicated servers and VPS servers, and some of those are at companies that have provided me with native IPv6 blocks (in addition to the IPv4 IP addresses).
Does it currently make sense ...
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Prioritize webhost for a domain?
I have a sub domain( I do not own the domain) but using Cpanel I am able to set A, NS, Cname records for a sub domain. What I want to do is to associate the subdomain with two webhost and prioritize ...
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How to host a single website on multiple servers?
I'm planning on releasing an iOS app that downloads video from my server. If hundreds of people on the launch day try to do this, then my website and the services that my server provides will clearly ...
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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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How can I use my domain name to map into my Amazon EC2's public IP?
How to put my registered domain name into DNS server?
Is there any DNS server available in this world?
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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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How to setup up A record for GitHub pages for NearlyFreeSpeech.net
I own the domain zenstealth.com and I have decided that the easiest way for me to "do" a blog is via GitHub pages and Jekyll, which is already built-in in GitHub pages. I've done that already, and for ...
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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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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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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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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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intermittent DNS problems
How would I go about tracking this issue down?
One of my websites has been up for years without issue. We're using Godaddy's nameservers for our domain.
Lately in the past two weeks, I've noticed ...
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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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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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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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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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Reclaim snatched domain name
I'm looking for options to get back a domain name that just expired and was re-registered by an unknown link farmer.
Between extended holidays, bank and hosting provider's opening hours and me the ...
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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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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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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 configuration to force root domain to www
we have an app running on heroku. the dns setup is like this:
A record for domain.com -> heroku front end ip addresses
CNAME for www.domain.com -> specific host name for our app provided by heroku
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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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http://url works but www.url doesnt
My website http://bakasura.in works fine. when i try to visit it via www.bakasura.in it doesnt work.
What is the problem ?
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DNS and non-root site
I've set up a Zope/Plone web server on 10.10.10.10:8080. I will have several sites hosted on this server. Each site will be located below the root e.g. 10.10.10.10:8080/Mysite1, ...
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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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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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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 there a tool I can use to test if an email from china is being blocked?
I'm having problems receiving an email from china, and I think it might be because the email was blocked somehow. Since I am not based in China and do not have access to any computers in China, I ...
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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 ...
