Questions tagged [nameserver]
A nameserver is a specific server that is able to use the DNS (Domain Name System) protocol to answer queries about hostnames to reply back with IP addresses, among other mappings.
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Private Nameservers and DNS for 2 dedicated servers
We just recently rent our second dedicated server with WHM from our hosting provider. But we have issues with the DNS and would like some input to find the solution.
The first server have its ...
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Nameserver changes and Tumblr custom URL's
I'm hoping I can get some help on some trouble I'm having with using a custom url for my tumblr blog.
To begin with I'll give a background to my setup for my site -
I'm using GoDaddy for as my domain ...
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How To Upload Files To Server Without Domain Pointing To Nameserver
I am planning on migrating my website from one server to another. Since this website is for my business, I don't want there to be a time frame where customers will land on an empty page.
I tried ...
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Should I sub-domain my VPS name servers?
While trying to setup up my VPS, I came across the name server settings.
Most of what I found online were regarding how to setup name servers, which advised something like ns1.mydomain.com and then ...
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What are the disadvantages of having a domain name with special characters?
What are the disadvantages of owning a domain name that contain special characters?
Some special characters are, for example: áéíóú, àèìòù, äëïöü, etc.
These characters open the possibility of ...
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Set up DNS name servers for WP Engine
I have set up my blog on WP Engine, and have been given a CNAME. My domain name is registered with CrazyDomains, and currently the name servers are pointing to Linode servers (where the blog was ...
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Website looks different on my connection compared to others
Ok, so this is quite a strange thing, the godaddy guy had no clue what I was talking about. Yesterday I bought a domain and set the nameservers to a webhost, my website was working, I then switched ...
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CloudFlare's cPanel plugin assigned new name servers for my domain - how do I make them use the old ones?
I deleted my domain in CloudFlare and recreated it using the CloudFlare plugin in cPanel, but CloudFlare gave me new nameservers that I should assign to my domain. The problem is that my registrar has ...
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Where can I get a list of DNS entries for a domain name? [closed]
What is a site that I can go to get a list of all the DNS entries for a specific domain name? Say I wanted to see what the MX, NS, and whatever else is associated to the domain name?
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Does a Name Server change on a domain also affect Name Servers of sub-domains of that domain?
We've got a web application product whose home page is at, for example, abcd.com
One of our clients is running the web application on a sub domain. E.g. customer.abcd.com
Both domains are currently ...
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Pointing domain to VPS webserver
I am hosting a webserver using IIS on my VPS and I have a domain through godaddy, how would I go about forward my domain to the webserver without mirroring the site using A records.
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What should I do after changing DNS records and my site is not resolving?
My domain is not resolving after updating its DNS records 10 hours ago.
I bought the domain from GoDaddy and hosted it on a different server. They guided me to alter two domain entries: the first is ...
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Why do I need at least two nameservers?
I own several domains, all hosted with Northhosts, but however I register my domains at GoDaddy (since they're cheaper).
When I receive my 'New Account Information' email from Northosts, they always ...
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Domain Name Not resolving with webhost nameservers and without www
Searched all over and tried playing with httpd.conf , nothing works.
The domain name can be resolved with www.domain.com but without www its does not resolve.
Advice for A Records does not work. I ...
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Trying to resolve my DNS records to use mandrill
I've got myself confused over DNS records and need to understand what I need to do first for my situation.
My domain name is hosted by one provider. The nameservers are currently pointing to the ...
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Add custom Nameservers for Subdomains
Is it possible to add custom Nameserver for my Subdomains?
For example:
My main domain example.com uses MX record from Gmail. Then my subdomain subdomain.example.com needs to use MX record from ...
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Question about name server propagation
I just did an overhaul of my company's website and changed the hosting provider, and it's probably been about 36-48 hours since I changed the pointers at my registrar to the new name servers. I have ...
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What does it mean when the nameservers reported by whois do not match those reported by nslookup?
I am currently investigating moving some records to a new set of nameservers, and in doing the research to be prepared for it have come up against a confusing mismatch. A bit of background on the ...
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What nameservers should I use for GitHub Pages when using a custom domain?
I am using a custom domain for a GitHub Pages site. They said to set CNAME or A record. But what nameservers should I use? What is the default, or should I leave it blank?
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Does the DNS lookup result mean that my nameserver is pointed nowhere?
I changed my domain's nameservers, but I don't think the change was processed correctly. Can anyone help me understand the result below "AFTER"? In my registrant's control panel, I change the name ...
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Use same hosting and same website for a new domain I purchased without redirecting to it
I have a somedomainname.in domain with hosting from some ABC provider. The site is up and running.
I recently bought its .com i.e somedomainname.com from a seller on GoDaddy, I want to use the same ...
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Changing nameserver on registar
Im changing the nameserver some domains that I have registered on register365, they allow a user to enter two nameservers and a tertiary nameserver. The new nameservers I am using are AWS which has ...
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Can changing nameservers while keeping the same host impact SEO for websites?
I host several Italian sites in a Virtual Private Server (VPS) located in Italy. At the moment, most of the domains are registered by the same provider, so all the nameservers are located in Italy too....
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I'm receiving this error when I point my domain names to a new VPS host: "You must enter a registered nameserver"
Why am I getting this error message when I point my domain names from my old host to a new VPS host:
knowing that My dns is already registered in my new VPS host!
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What's the purpose of unique webserver names?
Previously I would set the name servers of a domain to what the hosting company told me (e.g. ns1.hostingcompany.com). I've now started buying domains from a company that lets you make your own ...
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SEO Effects on sharing one nameserver for multiple websites on shared ips
We have a dedicated server and 5 shared IPs, and we are running around 20 websites on each shared IP. Our websites nature of business is same but each website belong to different country, For e.g., we ...
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What happens if two people at the same host claim ownership of a domain?
I have all my domains registered through company A and they are hosted through company B. I set my nameservers at company A to point to dns.companyB.com and everything works great.
But couldn't ...
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Domain registrar saying they cannot add TXT record
I have been adding SPF records to the sites I host on my VPS.
I create the record in each accounts CPanel, then add it as a TXT records in that account's related DNS registrars control panel.
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DNS taking weeks to propagate just in my area
It has been over two weeks since I changed over my DNS information on my new host. I still have my old hosting account setup through HostGator and it is still using the HostGator nameservers in my ...
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Nameservers and migrating a VPS
I am primarily a front end developer who has been tasked with upgrading my companies VPS.
As far as I understand, this is just the process of obtaining a new VPS with WHM/CPanel and then migrating ...
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What's the difference between my nameserver and CNAME settings?
I have purchased a domain name(mxsoup.net) through GoDaddy, and it is just parked. In order to set up my custom URL for my SourceAudio site, they give me the following instructions:
In order to ...
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Glue Records creation
I need some information on the following issue, as I would like to have it clear on my mind.
I have a VPS server. All my sites hosted on this VPS are using as NameServer .gr domain, like ns1....
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How do I tell who manages the domain when registrar = registrant
I am trying to track down the owner and/or domain host with a view to buying a specific domain. Fairly standard BUT, the registrant name is a person and they are also the registrar. No email details ...
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How does DNS detect changes in nameserver IP address? [closed]
Suppose I have a domain such as example.com and I configure the domain's primary and secondary nameserver to be ns1.example2.com and ns2.example2.com.
Questions:
Does the IP address of the ...
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How to dynamically change the host URL? [duplicate]
I have two websites, say a.com and b.com.
a.com is on a paid hosting service, and b.com is on 000Webhost.
000Webhost crashes sometimes, and my site b.com becomes unreachable.
So is there any way ...
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How should I name my DNS server?
Are there any conventions or guidelines I should use to name my DNS server? Does it really matter?
On the site I'm using to obtain the domain I desire it has two options:
Set up DNS and name ...
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DNS errors in Google Webmaster Tools
I've been trying to get rid of this DNS error for about a week now but I can't seem to wrap my head around it.
The website is herbelixirs.com.
The Google Webmaster Tools screen shot is below.
The ...
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Using Google apps / eNom domain change webhosts without breaking email?
I'm taking over a site for a client who initially purchased their domain name from Google Apps / eNom, they're using google apps mail but the site itself is hosted on earthlink.
I've built the new ...
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Nameserver Issues
I have a dedicated server on which I host my websites via cpanel. The domain registrar is a uk hosting company. Now, I want to move to a cloud VMware server with another company. My server and cpanel ...
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How would I completely remove a domain from webs?
I have registered a domain with 1&1.co.uk about 2 months ago. I changed the nameservers to the ones that webs told me to (ns1.webs.com, ns2.webs.com) so that I could publish my webs website to my ...
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Trying to point domain name to new server, but there are other NS records I cannot change
In my domain registrars console I see the following:
I have added my name servers to the bottom, but the domain name is not redirecting. I see there are 2 NS records above mine that I cannot change. ...
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How to change email server settings in Plesk
Well, this question may be very silly and I'm not sure that this is the right place to ask it, so sorry if that's the case. Well, my doubt is as follows: I work with web development and to offer the ...
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Automated hosting
I'm going to make a web service, where people can register domain names and host their sites, which they order from us. Also I need proper billing. For this purposes I'm going to buy Hetzner root ...
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How can I tell when a custom name server is active?
I recently moved my website to a VPS solution and in doing so was instructed to set up two custom nameservers with my domain registrar: ns1.mydomainname.com and ns2.mydomainname.com
I followed the ...
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Using one IP for Nameserver like NS1 and NS2
Please I like to know why I can't use my one IP on my nameserver like:
ns1.mydomain.com = 67.111.78.12
ns2.mydomain.com = (but the IP could be assigned here)
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Setting up VPS: How to configure name servers
So I got a VPS set up (LAMP) and have transfered a couple of sites over. Now I want to point my domain names from the old host to the new VPS host, which does not have any name servers yet.
On my ...
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After changing DNS a domain shows differently on different browser?
I have changed the nameserver's of one of my domains but I found a problem that within Firefox these changes have not updated as expected, however this problem does not occur in other browsers such as ...
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Set nameserver in WHM with VPS that has no domain name?
I have a new VPS I want to use to manage sites on. I need to set up nameservers so that I can point the domain names to the new servers. I know nameservers usually look like ns1.example.com where ...
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blah.com works, www.blah.com doesn't
I've found many a common question but unfortunately none of them really directly answered my inquiry, below is a copy paste of the info I am provided by xname.org I've replaced my .com with blah.com, ...
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Does Google's algorithm look at a websites nameserver?
This might seem like a strange question but does Google's ranking algorithm look at what nameserver a website uses. For example, if it uses an enterprise dns provider does it rank higher?
I appear to ...
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