Questions tagged [dns]
DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database to map various information together, such as hostnames to IP addresses. The name is also used as a synonym for nameservers, the specific servers delivering the DNS feature. This tag should be used for all issues about configuration of DNS systems or troubleshooting problems in names resolution.
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Is changing the A record of main domain safe for seo?
I have two hosts with different IPs.
The first one (say host A) serves the old version of website at site.com, plus some subdomains and emails (ema[email protected]).
Host B serves the new version of ...
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How to use whm/cpanel for email (box) for a website in AWS (EC2) [duplicate]
I've moved some sites from our Namecheap (dedicated) server to AWS (EC2) machine for several reasons. However, I want to use the existing Namecheap server for email (boxes) for those sites. We've ...
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Web site no longer displays and has been replaced by a page containing only "Index of..."
I have a web site hosted on a VPS that was working correctly until a few weeks ago. This domain is used primarily for email and that still works as it did previously. However, attempting to reach ...
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How can I "reclaim" the MX control of domain where former employee configured Gmail to handle mail?
A former employee had configured Gmail to handle their work email (an address that is @ an alias—herein called "example.com"—for our primary domain). The employee left and is not cooperative....
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How do I remove a subdomain that is shared to another webhost?
One of my team members had a separate webhost from mine and he suggested to host a website from a subdomain on his webhost, we did that and it was all ok untill the team disbanded and now I want the ...
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What MX records to use for pointing my domain at Microsoft 365?
I'm switching from Gmail to Microsoft 365/Outlook. I have my own domain. I have found some directions for getting this information using the Admin link at the Microsoft 365 website (gear icon among ...
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Namecheap + Format.com = DNS issue
Problem: my domain often goes nowhere when entered into a browser without the leading www. (Below, my real domain is changed to 'example')
I've had a domain on NameCheap for a while and was using ...
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Domain used for Gmail (G Suite/Workspace) Expired, re-bought via Cloudflare and now seeing weird SSL Certs
So long story short: for a long time I've had domain (basic website + G-Suite email) for an LLC (let's say example.com) that I used to use for freelance gigs. I stopped doing much freelance stuff ...
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New domain not working in chrome
I've been coding a website as part of my development. Nothing fancy. Mostly CSS/HTML with a an external js carousel.
I purchased the domain through google and I'm hosting via google cloud using ...
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Adding new DNS record to Netlify in order to make my domain point a new site
I have a new site: newsite.com (my new site has no subdomain such as www or ftp), so I wrote "@" to Name section when I created my DNS record.
I had an old site that I wanted to redo. I registered a ...
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How can we redirect using htaccess and DNS together with Google Sites?
I have updated a site and some of the old links are no longer referring to the right place (404). I wonder how I can do it through DNS and .htaccess.
As I understand Sites does not support redirecting ...
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Connecting Domain to website without losing webmail
my domain is with Network Solutions. I also signed up for Email with them. So I should be able to use http://mail.example.com to access the webmail portal through my Browser.
If I change the ...
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What is wrong with my zone records and name server configuration? My domain name isn't resolving
I've moved to Amazon Route 53 as my registrar, but my domain (kellshaw.com) isn't resolving. However the website is up, as I can see it via the IP address.
According to infoDNS it's to do with the ...
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Are there security issues with using wwwizer solution to redirect to root domain?
I have a Google Site to which I want to point my domain, hosted by a third party. It was (relatively) easy to establish a CNAME for the www subdomain, but I haven't been able to point my root domain ...
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Website Loads But Receiving Domain Name Does Not Resolve Error
Recently I had my Google Ads telling me that my ad is disabled because the destination is not resolving. The ad seems to actually be running, and my website is loading, however as I was digging into ...
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Implement redirect for domain from Namecheap's domain control panel
I have two domains, I want one domain to redirect all URLs to another domain. How do I do it in the Namecheap control panel?.
Does setting up redirect in domain control panel means users can visit the ...
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Moving to new domain and site
I have an old web site www.domain1.example (IP: x1.x1.x1.x1) hosted on GoDaddy and created a new one with new domain www.domain2.example (IP: x2.x2.x2.x2) hosted on Hostinger. Both domains purchased ...
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GitHub https page error: Webpage showing in plain HTML format
When I first created my GitHub webpage and registered a domain at Google Domains, I didn't realize I had it made with HTTP.
To switch it to HTTPS, I changed my Google Domains DNS (screenshot below)
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Using CloudFlare with GitHub Pages and SSL/TLS Full or Full (Strict) and Proxied DNS prevents GitHub Pages' Certificate Renewal
I am hosting my personal webpage on GitHub Pages with a custom domain and using CloudFlare for DNS etc. I am using the Full (Strict) mode for TLS/SSL and Proxied DNS. When The GitHub Pages tries to ...
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I need to avoid creating delegated hosted zone for Each domain hosted on cpanel vps on aws
Currently running cpanel on ec2 aws, for each domain I want to host on the same vps, I've to set a delegated hosted zone on route53 using nameservers isn't really working without the delegated hosted ...
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All my redirects are giving me a nice 301. Except the "http://www", for some reason it results in 302. I think I tried all the combinations already
I wanted to ask you for your help. I found this answer that is recommended on the internet - Forward naked domain with URL path for my Google Domain but it seems that it is already outdated.
I tried a ...
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Can I set NS values on the webserver instead of on the nameserver?
I can only ask the domain registrar (Cyber) by email or by phone to change the domain's NS values, I don't have direct access to the DNS settings.
I asked Cyber's support to change the NS values of ...
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Github Pages configure both Apex and www domains
Github allows to serve content for a custom domain from user's repository.
Documentation describes how to configure www subdomain, and it also describes how to configure apex domain, like example.com
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Using apex domain registered at WordPress
I have a domain registered at WordPress, let's say it's example.com.
I have my webpage hosted with GitHub pages and was able to add a CNAME record in the WordPress DNS settings pointing to said github....
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Is there a way to redirect a domain with a slug to a new domain with a new slug on Namecheap?
So I'm no expert with domain directs, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but here we go:
What we want to do is direct our site's blog posts from our old site (with old root domain and slug) to ...
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NotServedByPagesError when trying to setup a domain name in GitHub
On GitHub, this is what I entered and what I got:
And this is what my DNS settings look like:
Please help I don't understant anything I'm just trying to setup a custom domain name for my github repo....
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How do I submit an offer to buy an expired domain?
I am looking at an expired .com domain, that expired 19th dec. 2022. When I read this it says:
If the previous Registrant fails to renew their domain after 30 days,
they forfeit ownership of the ...
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Mirror a certaing page on multiple domains
I have a page at domain1.com/page/ which I'd like people to also access from
domain2.com
domain3.com
Or ideally on
domain2.com/page/
domain2.com/whatever/
I'm not looking for a redirect, I want the ...
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Strapi - react portfolio, deploy solution and custom DNS
I'm a beginner Front End dev and I'm currently planning to build a Portfolio for a friend which is going to get deeper in her illustration passion. I would like to practice my Frontend skills which I ...
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what does this means when trying to look up the domain name TLD_NOT_SUPPORTED?
I tried the official site
https://lookup.icann.org/
and the domain name beurer.com.mx
But failed with this result:
No registry RDAP server was identified for this domain. Attempting lookup using WHOIS ...
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Do I need to buy a domain for each sub domain I want to use with nginx?
I want to set up an nginx server on a vps to reverse proxy to some Minecraft servers that I am hosting and running locally on my home IP. I understand I will need to buy an A record for my domain(I ...
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How to resolve certificates for CNAME records
I have a custom domain name (let's call it example.com) and I would like to route traffic from test.example.com to google.com with AWS for testing purposes. I already have a Route53 Hosted Zone with ...
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Is using two TLDs okay? (FQDN - DNS Hierarchy (gTLD + ccTLD) websites)
I have seen so many websites with two TLDs, like this one below:
example.com.ph (not real FQDN, by the way)
I am confused on whether what is the actual TLD server that the root server is redirecting ...
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Are CNAMES records only used for the subdomains?
I'm trying to wrap my head around DNS and records. Let's say I have a root AWS account with a Route53 Hosted Zone with a domain of example.com, now I want to route beta.example.com traffic to another ...
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How CDN Relates to DNS Resolution and Content Fetching
I was trying to do a deeper dive on CDN and DNS
I understood the concepts around ISP, resolver cache, Root nameserver, TLD Nameserver, Authoritative Nameserver etc. i.e. a website (e.g. www.google....
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ANAME record not accepted
I created a application on fleek.co and want to connect my GoDaddy domain to my application. The fleek UI tells me to add an ANAME record with an alias as DNS entry. The GoDaddy UI tells me this is ...
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How can I move a website without moving DNS? [closed]
My homeowners association has a very ugly, 15+ year-old design, website that's hosted with a major hosting company. I've found a host that offers free site creation and hosting for HOAs, along with a ...
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Trouble with DNS resolution of www subdomain when using Safari browser
I wrote a simple web application, and I hosted it through cyclic (https://www.cyclic.sh/). After hosting the application, I wanted to configure a custom domain. To do this, I entered the following DNS ...
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TLS bound to another domain in the same hosting
I have a domain for a customer, say my-nice-restaurant.example hosted in a hosting company with cPanel. This cPanel takes all the time one domain like the "primary domain" of my account, say ...
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Are website subdomains that start with "www." and those which do not start with "www." one and the same thing?
For a website, e.g. example.co.uk, when I write it in the URL bar of browser, it takes me to the URL https://example.co.uk.
When I enumerate the subdomains of the website, I get subdomains like www....
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Email and Domain Name at one host; website at another
I'm having a strange issue and tech support at either hosting company is not helpful. So thought I'd try here.
Issue: Cannot forward an email account hosted on Namecheap to an email account hosted at ...
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How to reroute traffic from subdomain to Elastic Beanstalk via 3rd-party reigstrar and DNS manager
I'm quite incompetent when it comes to DNS and how traffic is routed, so this may be why I'm struggling to understand how to do what it is I want to do.
I've created a domain with a 3rd-party ...
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Migrating domain to sub-domain
I have a WordPress hosted on WPMUdev that lives under example.com, and trying to move this WordPress installation to sub.example.com and set my react app on example.com.
So I tried to move my website ...
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is www.abc or www.www.com a valid url? [closed]
I know www.abc.com is a valid URL but what about www.abc or even www.www.com?
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Does Google crawl domains with dynamic IP addresses?
Does Google crawl web sites with dynamic IP addresses and dynamic DNS entries?
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How can I use a different A record for a specific path?
I have a domain and my landing page is displayed at example.com, but I also need this to be the domain for my DigitalOcean Droplet which hosts the Node.js backend for my React apps. However, I'm ...
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Website inaccessible with domain name, but not IP (Problem for + 10 days)
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I can access my webiste with IP address but not domain (altum.fo). I'm using a small mandatory local registrar (okisnavn.fo) but hosting it on AWS Route 53. I've changed the NS records on the ...
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Should I use CNAME or Apache virtual host for www?
At this time I have a CNAME record with host "www" and pointing to example.com. But with this setup, when a user types www.example.com, he gets "redirected" (I know it's not an ...
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How to add a domain to my website which is hosted in Ubuntu VPS?
I bought a domain from Bluehost and added A record pointing to my VPS IP at my domain registrar. I don't know what is virtual host? and how to configure it? and why should we configure it?
I am Junior ...
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Setting up domain [closed]
I am currently trying to finish setting up my domain to my google site, but I am stuck. I verified the third-party domain to the google site via site settings. In the settings it shows verification of ...
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