DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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Can't reach site from Firefox and Chrome but works fine using Safari [closed]
I've got a virtual server running Ubuntu which I recently set up. As I was trying to learn how to deal with vhosts and serveraliases I made a few errors before I finally managed to get the vhost files ...
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Redirect/rewrite dynamic URL to sub-domain and create DNS for subdomain
I have created an application in PHP, I would like to re-direct the following URL to corresponding sub-domain.
Dynamic URL pattern:
http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?user_name=testuser
I wish to ...
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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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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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Can I point a CNAME to a subpage on Google Sites?
Simple question:
I followed the instructions and now I have a CNAME pointing www.mydomain.com to my Google Sites site.
I want to add another, pointing mike.mydomain.com to ...
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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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How does my DNS provider know that I own the domain that I am managing?
Let's say I purchase a domain at RegistrarA, and then I set my domain to use the name servers over at ProviderB since I will be using ProviderB to operate my DNS records.
In the system of ProviderB, ...
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point godaddy DNS to other DNS master for new subdomain
I have a domain domain1.com and am creating a new subdomain sub.domain1.com and this subdomain has it's own DNS, NOT godaddy's DNS. I manage domain1.com DNS in godaddy right now and need to tell it ...
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DNS A Records with 1and1 and Heroku
I have a domain name registered through 1and1.com that I'd like to point to my Heroku app (mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com).
Heroku's instructions ...
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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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My domain name has two spellings, how do I tell which one users type more?
I registered another spelling for my domain name. I point them at the same IP with DNS set-up tool.
How do I tell which one my visitors come from more? Would I be able to view that kind of statistics ...
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How can I point a subdomain at another server? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to point a domain to another subdomain?
Is it possible to set up a subdomain to render content of another server?
Let's say I wanted google.domain.com to render ...
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Virtual hosting on CentOS [closed]
I have a CentOS machine running Apache. I have a few virtual hosts set up and they run just fine. An example of a setup that's working fine is:
<VirtualHost 10.10.10.38:80>
ServerName ...
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How to link a domain to a subdomain with DNS / A record?
Ok, there are a lot of topics regarding this, but there is no detailed solution..
I bought a domain www.newsite.com but my webspace is at a different hoster and there in a subdomain ...
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Why would it take longer for a web page to resolve when the url is entered without “www”?
I was looking up a new website a friend of mine just built, and when I typed in "youwho.com", it took like 3 minutes to return the page to me. When I typed "www.youwho.com" it resolved instantly.
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how to setup site for no www
the company im working at handle the hosting our self. we got www.domain.com up now and we want to make the domain.com to work as well. we use iis7. i seen some articles and found one with url rewrite ...
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two domain names, one hosting
my client has registered a domain name on godaddy. He already is hosting a site on smartyhost. Now he wants his godaddy site to point smartyhost site. He does not want a redirect, instead he wants ...
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How to Point a Dreamhost Domain Name to a GoDaddy Server
I have a domain name example.com with Dreamhost. I also own a dedicated server with GoDaddy.
(1) How do I configure the domain name system, so that the Dreamhost domain name is hosted at the GoDaddy ...
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How can I repoint my domain? DNS/MX etc
I've searched the questions here, but have found nothing that gives me the assurance I require.
My situation:
I have a domain registered with Network Solutions, linked to hosting on NetSol
I have ...
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What other choices do we have other than the 301 redirect and CNAME on DNS?
I have a main site http://qweop.com, and I would like to add an alias to it called http://qwepo.com.
Now if I use a CNAME (currently this is what I'm using) on qwepo which maps www to qweop.com, then ...
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How to point two domains to one ip address with a sub-domain
I am a little stuck here I currently have a domain:
www.my-site.org & m.my-site.org
I want to point m.mainsite.org to m.my-site.org
I already have an A record created for m.mainsite.org I need ...
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Best criteria for choosing a DNS provider : Redundancy, Locations, Cost, IPV6, Reliability [closed]
What criteria should I use to choose a good DNS provider?
Redundancy - Your DNS service should use at least 4 nameservers.
You should also check for the use of anycast servers such as Amazon Route ...
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Custom Domain for Tumblr
I am trying to set up a custom domain for my tumblr account.
http://blog.scribeair.com/ to http://scribeair.tumblr.com
Can some one help me how to set up the DNS records for the subdomain.
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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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Add domain to VPS
I have a VPS server running Ubuntu 11.04 with webmin installed on it. How can I add my example.com domain to my VPS like the way we do on shared server via web panels such as cPanel and etc?
Thanks.
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What does an asterisk/star in traceroute mean?
The below is a part of traceroute to my hosted server:
9 ae-2-2.ebr2.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.132.106) 19.433 ms 19.599 ms 19.275 ms
10 ae-72-72.csw2.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.151.141) 19.496 ...
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Forwarded/custom domain names and SSL
Assume I have a website that offers a web-based service to companies:
myservice.com
Each company has a subdomain wildcarded via mod_rewrite:
client1.myservice.com
(This is typical of many ...
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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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MX changes for domain alias not propogating
I am trying to implement Google Apps for a new domain of mine, and although Google says it can take up to 48 hours, it is normally much quicker than that, and other DNS changes, such as creating the ...
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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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Control Content Hosting, DNS Hosting and Registration with command line?
I am fed up with Blogger's odd error msgs and Go Daddy's automatic replies to questions. They have never mentioned the word "DNS Hosting" to me, apparently the thing I am missing. I would really love ...
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Slow website response? How can I fix this issue?
I have pingdom monitor on my website:
http://stats.pingdom.com/t68xhgex256f/375513
For North America (big target market) the response time is 1-2 seconds. This is far too slow.
Is there anything ...
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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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Can I host www.example.com/subpage on different machine?
If I am the owner of www.example.com that is hosted on one machine, is it technically possible to host www.example.com/subpage on different machine, with different IP?
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website dns redirects to another [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
my website redirected by someone else
First of all i cant find true forum to post ,but i need a very quick help.
I have registered a domain name with godaddy couple of ...
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Which comes first DNS or name servers?
Which comes first? DNS or nameservers?
Its just I'm editing a domain and want to point it to different hosting servers. Now, normally I'd just set the nameservers to the new hosting nameservers, but ...
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no-www redirect not working / DNS A record
I'm far from an expert on this, but I'll try to be as clear as possible.
I have an eshop solution leased from a company and it's hosted on their server. I can access it thru company.com/myshop and it ...
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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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DNS MX and NS entries
I was wondering about my domain and if next is afordable.
First of all this is my "architecture":
Domain registration at GoDaddy.com
Hosting at Dreamhost
mail at google apps
Until now I setted ...
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Adding 1 subdomain using .htaccess
Alright, so unlike other solutions I only want one subdomain to appear to be added.
Say I wanted example.com/folder/page.php to be displayed as foo.example.com/folder/page.php, how would I go about ...
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Website Access…DNS, ISP, issue?
This isn't so much a code issue as it might be an issue with my ISP. For some reason when I visit a site very often, like one I manage or write stories on, it will just stop pulling data down after a ...
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My new DNS change works from America but not Sweden
Several hours ago, I changed nameserver and DNS info on one of my domains at my domainregistar. When I accessed the domain from my home computers and when my friends accessed the domain, they get to ...
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How to use the domain of my old site to my new site?
the site1.com is a joomla website.. that site is converted into wordpress. I want to have the domain of the joomla site (site1.com) to be the domain name of the wordpress.
Note the two site have ...
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Does the “canonical name” in DNS make any difference to search engines?
Some of our sites are setup with an "a record" to an IP address and some are setup as a cname of a server that then has an "a name" to the same server IP. I want it to be consistent.
Which is the ...
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Domain registrar changed DNS without warning
We have had a very long an damaging outage which lasted around 24hrs due to a change in our DNS servers by our registrar. What happened (according to our registrar) was that for some reason their ...
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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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How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host?
Client's domain is registered with GoDaddy where they have a mail-only plan at the moment. Now web hosting has been set up elsewhere and we need to point web service to the new host while retaining ...
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Registered a .PRO domain, can't change DNS for 120 days?
I noticed the following in Gandi's terms and conditions for .PRO domains:
Once the domain has been registered, you cannot modify the contacts or DNS for 120 days.
What the heck? How am I ...
