About 6 months ago I purchased the domain name example.net
. Today I was trying to go to my control panel at example.net/cpanel
but accidentally went to cpanel.example.net
. I found a completely different website at this sub domain. It seems to be some sort of gaming website that sells hardware as well. This sub domain does not show up in my cPanel and when I try to create the subdomain cpanel.example.com
I get an error.
Update: I used a DNS zone editor to delete some A
records that had been made to that subdomain. There were others including mail.example.net
, webmail.example.net
and whs.example.net
all containing the same site. I have the issue of their existence solved, but I need to know if this is a breach in security. All of the subdomains seemed to have been named to purposely avoid suspicious. Does this sound like a breach in security?
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is a slip? – MrWhite Feb 9 '15 at 22:45A
records should probably beCNAME
records that point to your host, not the IP address as w3d pointed out. It's probably just an oversight in your hosting company's DNS Zone Template, which you should relay to their support team. – dan♦ Feb 10 '15 at 2:35