DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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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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Google Webmaster Tools, DNS Errors & HostPapa
I received this message from Google Webmaster Tools:
Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 2 errors while
attempting to retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall
error rate ...
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How to monitor traffic from domains forwarding?
I have suppose 10 domains all redirecting( using godaddy forwarding) to example.com. Is there a way I can monitor traffic from these 10 domains ? Probably some how in Google Analytics or some other ...
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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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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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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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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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how to deploy my jboss servlets to GoDaddy and make it available to my Android client?
I have my web application running in jboss on my pc, accessible only in localhost. I have seen in sites like godaddy, they talk about giving a domain name to your site.
My application only serves ...
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2 domains 1 host package
I have a windows web hosting package.
I have 2 different domain names.
Can i point my first domain to the the hosting package and then run BlogEngine.NET and then point the second domain to the ...
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Setting up a LaunchRock page without hosting
Looking to buy a 'dot-com' domain as cheap as possible, and set the DNS to forward to the LaunchRock service without having to setup a hosting act. Is this possible, and if so how?
I've asked roughly ...
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Problem with the DNS settings for our new company mailserver
We are a small business with several branches around our country, trying to improve intra-office communications.
In order to host a mail server at our head office we have upgraded our Business ...
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Why is there a form which allows us to redirect our naked domain, yet it does nothing?
In Google Apps Domain Management, There is a page for me to change how my naked domain http://example.com is redirected.
However, in that page, it tells me You must change the A-record at your domain ...
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dns routing MX record
I want to move an old website from a client's office server to a new hosting account but I need to leave the email accounts on my client's office server. I have done this once or twice before and what ...
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Any Risk To Share Zone -file of a Website in Internet?
I have problem with DNS settings and I cannot find any other way than share my settings.
The Zone -file contains SOA record, A records, CNAME records, MX records and NS records.
Is there any danger ...
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Reverse IP lookup resolves to old domain
A site I administer recently rebranded under a new domain name. I updated the DNS to forward the old to the new, but reverse IP lookups are still resolving to the old domain. I don't see anywhere in ...
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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 to map URL to IP?
I'm completely ignorant when it comes to hosting.
Suppose I have a web application up and running on IIS 6.0 locally, and then I publish it (somehow?)
I assume the site will be accessible from ...
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Confusing caching issue-DNS
Yesterday I changed my DNS servers to point to a different server. This change has still not been displayed on my own computer, but it does from other computers around the world (checked using ...
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What is the proper way to setup Google Apps email accounts for a subdomain?
Let's say I've registered domain.com at enom and set it up to use Google Apps for email by rerouting DNS to enom's servers and editing the MX records there. That works flawlessly. Now let's say I ...
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DNS hijack - prevention tips
Over the weekend it looks like the DNS was hijacked on two of my domains.
My set up is I have the sites registered on 1and1.co.uk, with dns nameservers pointing to Hostgator in the US where the ...
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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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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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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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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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How can I set up my server to also be a mail server?
I'm running apache2 on Ubuntu Server 12.04 and I have my website up and running fine with 2 virtual hosts, and I was wondering how I can set up my server to also be a mail server, preferable for both ...
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Create subdomains via C-Panel or via domain registrar?
I am a novice, so excuse me if it sounds dummy. I read a few similar questions on this topic here but they did not answer my question.
I have a personal website, hosted with C-panel control panel. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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xampp not working with DynDNS
My setup consists of:
a XAMPP 1.7.7 installation, with Apache configured to listen to port 8080
dyn.com to make the projects accessible from the web ( 8080 shows up as 'open' when checking with ...
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Files uploaded to hosting account but DNS is not finding the new files
I got a new domain http://alfer-ks.com. I have upload files to the server using cPanel, but when I try to load the website, it just shows the cPanel default page, which shows that Apache is running ...
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Attemping to setup Domain NameServers but it doesn't appear to work
Im having a little trouble setting up my domain redirect. The domain name is registered with Namesco and the hosting is on wiserhosting. wiserhosting has provided me nameservers of
Nameserver 1: ...
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How to redirect my brand new domain to Dlinkddns.com
Today I bought a domain from GoDaddy for my personal usage. I'm trying to forward requests from the domain to a DlinkDDNS account with no success so far.
https://account.dlinkddns.com:port works ...
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How do I change where a domain points to?
I've just finished making a website for my dad and need to get it on line. He has a domain already (and I have access to the admin panel for that on 'fasthosts') and my mum already has some server ...
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Can I change the cname of my domain to any other domain I want?
I own a domain name can i change it's CNAME to make it point to any other domain that I don't own?
Example: I own a domain name (balh.com)
can I make it an alias for google.com and yahoo.com?
means ...
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Access a PLESK website before propagation?
My web host uses Plesk and I want to know if there is anyway to access and view a website (with PHP and other processes being functional) without propagation of the domain name?
I have found ...
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How to find the Fastest DNS servers to host our domain?
The question was born because lately we've seen a pretty odd (well, at least for us, for the first time) - error message in Google webmaster tools - "DNS lookup timeout" ... I was pretty sure that ...
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parked domain on plesk have error 500
I parked the raf-sales.net domain on raf.ir but i have this error:
Server Error in '/' Application. :|
I hate Plesk and have not any idea to fix this problem! :|
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Domain from A and hosting from B
I have buyed domain from one company and hosting from another.
On hosting company website finded DNS addresses and applied them to domain hosting website(changed DNS) I done it yesterday, so today it ...
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Setting up an incoming CNAME to accept for my domain name
I have the following scenario.
Domain Name : mydomain.com
I have registered a country level tdl with our ISP.
country tdl : www.mydomain.com.qa
ISP has created a CNAME to my www.mydomain.com.qa to ...
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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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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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I registered my domain, but it doesn't appear to exist
I wanted to register a domain with No-Ip and clicked the Sign Up button on their homepage. I entered my desired domain name (I won't publish it until I get this resolved, to prevent "domain theft"), ...
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Domain hijack or spam?
I've changed my DNS from a host to a new host. It took about a day to propagate. Now my site has factious home page from a "searchdiscovered.com".
I crosschecked the DNS, it is as required by the new ...
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After installing and then removing Google Apps from my website, entering the URL without “www” no longer works
A few days ago I added Google Apps to my site to try it out and see how I liked it. However, it wasn't really going to fit my needs, so I decided to remove it earlier this morning.
Before I ...
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Is there an more user friendly alternative to afraid.org for DNS subdomains?
I would like "people out there" to be able to host subdomains to my domain easily. I'm aware that you can do this using afraid.org (free) and it works well, however for "people out there" to use ...

