DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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Recommendations for managing DNS issues when hosting customer sites
I'm working at a company which primarily provides SaaS products but also will host some of our customers corporate websites. My question relates to recommendations for managing DNS for client's domain ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Forwarding a subdomain to main domain using Godaddy
I have current blog, which was hosted on Tumblr at http://blog.ryanhayes.net. I'm moving it over to http://ryanhayes.net, and have all the 301 redirects set up for the blog entries to map to my new ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Question regarding domain names and web servers
Say there is a website, www.website1.com, that is hosted on a web server, web server A. Is it possible to have another website, www.something.website1.com on a different web server, web server B?
Or ...
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Problem with DNS setup on vps
I got a strange message from my server today:
["The hostname (vps.listgiants.com) resolves to . It should resolve to 69.36.94.251. Please be sure to correct /etc/hosts as well as the 'A' entry in ...
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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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Transferring a domain difficulty
I registered a domain using Google apps. The process was simple and only cost $10 and the domain was registered automatically by Google through godaddy.
Now I need to transfer the domain to its new ...
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Can I change the domain associated with my hosting if they're both with 123-reg.co.uk?
I've recently been trying to set up a website for the first time for an academic project.
We bought 4 domains from 123-reg.co.uk:
primarydomain.com
secondarydomain1.com
secondarydomain2.com
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What DNS records are needed to point a domain to an IP address?
I have a newly registered domain ice-hot.co.uk which I have bought from 123-reg.co.uk and I want to point it to IP address 94.76.224.52 which is a VPS hosted by a different company.
What DNS records ...
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Is it necessary to create a DNS record for “website.com” when create one for “www.website.com”
When I create a DNS record for website "www.website.com", is it necessary to create a record for "website.com" first?
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How do I create DNS records
My domain points to a rails app hosted on Heroku. Is it possible to have blog.mydomain.com point to a WordPress installation somewhere else, e.g. Dreamhost?
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How to edit name servers
I purchased a domain name for my website but the files are hosted some other place. The domain registration website show four name servers addresses. What are these. Can I forward my domain to a ...
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Pointing two IPs to one domain name
Pointing two IPs to one domain name
I have setup Eg:
app.test.com IP1
app.test.com IP2
Domain name should point the the IP which ever is UP
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Email settings for a Rackspace Cloud Sites hosted site?
I'm working on moving a client's hosting to a new provider as part of a site redesign. They're currently using Rackspace to host their site. Their domain is registered with ENOM. My one concern is ...
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Alternative to GoDaddy? [closed]
For a number of reasons I'm thinking about slowly moving my domains away from GoDaddy. Unfortunately I don't know of a good alternative, and am looking for a recommendation.
To match what I ...
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How can I search DNS records by registrant or admin contact info, email address for example?
I'd like to search for all domain names administered by jon.doe@domain.com for example. Are there any search tools out there that allow such a search?
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Getting a domain name owned by someone else? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Buy a registered domain?
I'm in the process of creating this website, but the name I wanted for the hosting seems to be taken. Namejet seems to be auctioning it, but it ...
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How to forward a domain without an absolute link
We have multiple sites within our server:
We mostly use a www.example.com/businessid=21 type URI format.
Unfortunately, we've changed the DNS for domain www.example.com to another server.
One of ...
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Is an externally-hosted subdomain a security risk?
A company I've been developing a web site for wants to keep their current domain, which is something like company.parentcompany.com. Because we wanted to use a different CMS, the parent company ...
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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 ...
