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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Cloudflare DNS: How to 301 Redirect all traffic from Sub Domain to Main Domain with URL path?
I am using cloudflare to manage my domain, and I wanted to add a subdomain. I tried to do this:
But it gives me an error. How would I add a subdomain like blog.example.com that sends to example.com/...
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Using local DNS and public DNS during site development
I'm a web designer and I often develop new sites for existing businesses. Sometimes I find it useful to point my DNS address (for my personal computer) to the development servers local DNS (instead of ...
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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?
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Nginx Reverse Proxy for Tumblr
I'm currently trying to set up a reverse proxy redirecting a domain to a tumblr blog. I've set up NGinx using this Gist. My nginx configuration looks like so:
upstream tumblr {
server 66.6.44....
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If I remove my A record, will it mess up MX records on that domain?
I am using DNSimple and S3/Cloudfront.
Following their recommended configuration looks like this:
myapex.com ------ REDIRECT --> www.myapex.com
www.myapex.com -- CNAME -----> lkj32lkj323323....
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Find the IP address of expired domains
I want to know the previous hosting IP address of an expired domain. Is there any way find this?
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Point domain to Amazon EC2 Server
I just got a domain from a rather suspicious registrar and I want to point that domain to an EC2 instance from Amazon AWS. I already have an elastic IP ready and just need to point the domain to it.
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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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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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How does smart DNS proxy work?
I have been looking on the web, but there aren't a detailed explanation on how it works and not the concept of what it is for. There are really two things that I don't understand.
How does it fake ...
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What are the roles of IANA and ICANN in relation to domain names?
I am aware that IANA is a department of ICANN, but how are their roles divided?
IANA should allocate IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to RIR's, allocate AS number ranges to RIR's and administrates the root ...
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Why is my email address appearing in my domain's DNS zone?
So I was looking through my DNS records and I found something strange. The email address I used to setup cPanel/WHM with was: [email protected],
So I went to DNS functions -> Edit DNS zone, ...
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Can't access website from same network
I've setup IIS locally to host a website. I've created a free NOIP account so I can access it with a domain name. It's temporary, so I plan to assign a real domain to it later. I setup port ...
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301 Redirect a domain to another domain, but keeping the subdirectories the same
Is it possible to configure a top-domain (http://x.com) (DNS/.htaccess/else?) to redirect to another domain (http://y.com), whilst if you navigate http://x.com/subdir/index.html, you'd see the files ...
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redirect www to non-www (CNAME needed?)
I want to redirect http://www.example.com to http://example.com.
I would like to avoid duplicated content. Is 301 redirect in nginx sufficent? Is it needed for me to add a CNAME record? My concern ...
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Can I receive email for multiple domains using a single email server?
I have multiple domains in the form of abcd.com, abcd.it, abcd.eu, etc... My main mail server is set for abcd.com so all my emails are in the form of [email protected]
Now I would like to know if I can ...
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What is the Update URL for Dynamic DNS for Google Domains
Google Domains supports Dynamic DNS. That is great since my domain and Dynamic DNS information can come from the same provider.
For Dynamic DNS to work, I usually need the following info:
Update URL
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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
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11272776/using-phusion-passenger-nginx-running-...
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Nameservers and DNS - Appropriate Steps to Move to A VPS?
I bought a VPS and I am trying to transfer my domain over to the new server, I took two steps so far, but I don't think I did it quite right as its been 24 hours and most all DNS check sites still ...
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I have an old domain that I'm retiring. How do I set up a permanent redirect from the old domain to the new one?
I originally posted this as one of the defining questions for the site so I thought I'd ask it again.
Currently I have DNS for both domains pointing to the same place but I'd like to set up a ...
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How to fix Temporarily unreachable in Google Webmaster tool or Console? [duplicate]
I tried to fetch and render my site but I got a DNS site error(see screenshot below)
I attempted to fetch and render again after 2 days but still it gave me a temporarily unreachable status. But the ...
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Domain, Hosting and DNS management on 3 seperate providers - is this possible?
I wanted to know if its possible to do the following:
Buy Domain from GoDaddy.
Buy Hosting from HostGator.
Buy DNS Management from DNS Made Easy.
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DNS forwarding used to point GoDaddy DNS to Heroku app: this doesn't work from a corporate network, why?
My domain on GoDaddy is set up with DNS forwarding to the Heroku app.
This works fine from all the internet connections I've tried except for the one at work. How can I troubleshoot this issue? Is it ...
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Domain name only works with www. but not without the www
I have searched for this problem numerous times but I can't quite apply the solution to my problem. The usual solution I find is that I need to add an A-record to my dns, currently I only have a C-...
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enable email on Godaddy when using Zerigo on Heroku hosted app
A little recap of what I have done ... and then my questions Q1, Q2 and Q3
1 - I developed a RoR app that I deployed on Heroku.
biowatts.heroku.com
2 - I bought a domain name at GoDaddy:
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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 up ...
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IIS sub-domain reverse proxy based on host name
I have a virtual machine in azure running three self hosted applications (not hosted in IIS) on three different ports.
I can access them at the urls below:
my-server.cloudapp.azure.com:8080
my-...
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Naked domain to "www" redirect in Windows Server 2008
I have a Windows server. I have several websites hosted on my server. Currently, I can only visit these websites if I include "www" (e.g., www.techtint.com).
I want the naked form of the URL to ...
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Website on S3: Multiple subdomains to one Bucket?
I'd like to host a website on Amazon S3. What's the best practice to make a site accessible from both example.com and www.example.com?
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Can I use a reverse proxy service to route web requests to some other port than 80 on my home server to avoid breaking my ISP's ToS?
Is there a way to route all requests thru a proxy service, like Amazon Gateway, to specific ports on my home internet?
This will increase security at my home and will allow me to operate with the ...
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Registering single letter domain, selling subdomains? [closed]
I am about to purchase x.yz or a.bc (not those, but same lengths). I want to sell subdomains like rst.x.yz to the public, and would be able to run my own DNS servers for it. Is there a system (iPanel ...
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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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Understanding CNAME and NS in DNS
I'm trying to learn the different types in DNS (A, CNAME, NS etc).
I do understand what they is used for, but the way I see it, CNAME could be used whenever NS is used, or am I wrong?
For instance:
(...
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Is there a way to hide my domain Whois information for free?
I am so sick of being spammed by calls and emails every time I register a new domain name. I know I can pay for Whois protection with my domain name registrar, or choose a registrar who provides this ...
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DNS record for permanent redirect?
Newbie webmaster here: I have 2 domains example.com and example.net. I want a permanent redirect so that if anyone browses to example.net they navigate to example.com. Is there a way to do this using ...
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How to transfer a domain from 101domain to another registrar?
A friend of mine bought a domain name on 101domains, and now wants to have his website hosted on my servers. I would like to have full control of the DNS records, and thus would like to change the NS ...
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Changing hosting for a domain but keeping email
I’m a web designer with minimal knowledge about DNS records etc.
I have a client who currently has a domain registered with LCN. They also have their email provided by LCN and they currently have a ...
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How can a domain be showing as pendingDelete & redemptionPeriod, but not expire for another year?
I'm looking to buy a domain that's currently showing as pending delete, but also showing that it's in the redemption period. The strange thing is that it's showing the expiry date as next year, ...
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Buy domain without static, public IP address
I'm about to buy a domain, just for a personal website, where the availability is not that crucial at all.
As of now, I don't have a static, public IP.
My question is, if I could buy the domain (e.g....
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Can I point a example.com/subdirectory to another IP address?
I have 2 servers and 1 domain name. Is there a way to point the domain at server 1 but then point example.com/subdirectory to server 2?
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Name Server / DNS Lookup
What is the difference between a name server lookup and a DNS lookup?
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Service/Method for forwarding A record
I am setting up a WordPress multisite with numerous subsites. Some of these subsites will have a custom domain. I may end up switching hosting providers down the road and want to avoid having to get ...
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Where do domain name hosts get their own domains?
How does a registrar such as GoDaddy or Namecheap acquire their own domains (e.g. https://www.godaddy.com/)? Do they just use their own infrastructure, or do they have to pull some strings related to ...
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Should I minimize distance between registrar location and server
A few years back, I assisted in the move of the website content server from one host to another (in canada) due to better service pricing. Because of this, I had to designate a new registrar for my ...
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How can a domain use its own nameservers?
I have to change the MX DNS records for our company domain name and I've come across this odd situation:
A whois search shows up that the nameservers for ourcompany.com are ns1.ourcompany.com and ns2....
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Best practice for adding the www subdomain: Via an A record or htaccess redirect?
Having used both methods in the past I just wandered which method is actually best practice when handling the www subdomain? Do I setup another A record in the DNS to point to the same IP ad the root ...
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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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How to force browsers/ISPs to look for my new DNS?
I have changed the DNS for my domain.
what code (or header) should I use in my old server to tell the visitor's browser or ISP that it should check for my new DNS and the current content is old?
is ...
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Should I worry about exposing my server's IP address?
I currently use Cloudflare for DNS, and they advertise that they will hide the IP address of my server if I proxy through them. Should I worry about this since the IP points to a dedicated server (not ...
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SPF Record for Google Domains Email Forwarding
I've got a domain setup with Google Domains. I'm using CloudFlare for the name servers and I have the correct MX records setup (https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9428703) to point back to ...