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BIND is by far the most widely used DNS software on the Internet. It provides a robust and stable platform on top of which organizations can build distributed computing systems with the knowledge that those systems are fully compliant with published DNS standards.

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DNS-address can't be found

I've put an NS-record on the DNS from my registrar, and pinging my DNS is working. But when i want to open a page from my webserver, i get the message "This site can’t be reached www.thoelen.tech’s ...
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Can't get bind to redirect domain

So, I decided to set up bind as a DNS server (to be totally honest, it was just a practical exercise since I'm studying for the Network+.) But I can't make it work. I start with a zone in named.conf: ...
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rndc reload says zone was found in multiple views

$ sudo rndc reload 15.168.192.in-addr.arpa rndc: 'reload' failed: multiple zone '15.168.192.in-addr.arpa' was found in multiple views It is true. I have the zone in multiple views, so I need to use ...
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Bind DNS serverdo not answer domain name

I setup my bind server but I can't access my web server using my domain name. does anybody knows What can be wrong? My server can connect by IP but can not connect by domain name. I tried to turn off ...
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DNS BIND 9.9 query only works for Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) but not short name

I crashed into a problem trying to move my very old DNS BIND 9.5 to my new DNS BIND 9.9. The issue is similar to this post: DNS query only works for Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) but not short ...
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Why does dig Answer my queries differently?

I am unable to understand why there is a difference in how dig is Answering my queries in the client. I have configured the Zone file as below in DNS $ORIGIN mail.lab.example.com. $TTL 0 @ IN ...
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When running a bind server where do I specify my lan machines hostnames?

I'm running an arch linux bind server, and trying to accomplish a pseudo local development domain called ld.pvt so that from my other machines I have web accessible access to the web servers on the ...
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What's wrong with this BIND zone definition? [closed]

@ IN SOA @ ns.mycompany.com. ( 0 ; serial 1D ; refresh 1H ...
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Need of 2 $ORIGIN Directives

In most of the DNS Zone examples, as below $ORIGIN . $TTL 86400 ; 1 day example.com IN SOA dns.example.com. hostmaster.example.com. ( 2001062504 ; serial 21600 ; refresh (6 ...
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How does the ISP resolve or determine the root servers for a particular Zone?

Let us say I am trying to find out the delegated subdomains for superuser.com When I perform dig +trace, I get this result: dig +trace superuser.com A ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> +...
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Is /etc/resolv.conf useful during DNS Referrals or Zone Transfers

I have just started working on DNS Referrals and I was going through a Link to Understand what are DNS Referral Queries [https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/24383/what-is-a-recursive-dns-query][1]...
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Bind9 cache automatic refresh

I have a small server (Ubuntu 12.10 x64) at home that acts also as a DNS cache for my LAN (using BIND9). I tried to have a look at the documentation and it appears there is no way to configure it so ...
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Bind9 IP update

I have 2 DNS servers (BIND9) (primary, secondary) and 1 domain. I have a webserver with dynamic IP. So if my IP changed I can't reach my site over domain, because in the DNS servers the domain zone IP ...
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Bind - local zone with overriding the remote one

I have BIND9 server that is serving some local zones (for dev environment). Now I need to be able to merge the content of the local zone with the "remote" zone for the same zone: Local: host1 IN A ...
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Cannot configure local DNS server on Slackware

I want to configure bind (v9) on Slackware (v14.2) so that example.com resolves to the IP address of the local Apache server. This is my /etc/resolv.conf: # Generated by dhcpcd from eth0.dhcp # /etc/...
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How do I Open my DNS to the world?

So, I configured BIND on 2 of my servers. I have BIND fully working. I changed my DNS on my Computer to my master server. I then visited the domain I setup. it seems to work. but once I'm not ...
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Can I hide BIND mount points from DF?

Is there a formal way to hide the mount points of BIND from df (in CentOS 6.4) ? It's ugly and distracting. Apparently people have been complaining about it for a decade but I cannot seem to google ...
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Bind 9 configuration Ubuntu 16.10

I have an static IP and I 'm trying to configure a Bind9 service to translate the ip to a domain name. I followed a lot of tutos and guides, but something is wrong because I check a lot of times my ...
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Turn off or disable inbound requests on TCP on DNS Server

Is there a possibility to turn off/disable TCP in DNS Server, so that it would reject incoming TCP requests? I would want the request coming to DNS Server and then getting rejected in DNS Server. ...
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Setting up a home webserver with multiple services to allow name based connections

First off, let me apologise if this is too simple a question. I'm sure it is, but my main problem is that I don't really know the exact terminology to use to search for an answer. For the past few ...
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How can one prevent a DNS from answering to naked domain requests?

I want my server to answer only to something such as ping www.david.com, but not ping david.com. Here is my named.conf.local file. zone "david.com" { type master; file "forward"; }; zone "1....
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How can one add more than one zone to DNS server that use the same IP address?

I have a DNS server with the following zones in /etc/bind/named.conf.local zone "david.com" { type master; file "forward"; }; zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "...
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Do i need two ips AND 2 nameservers for cpanel?

I have two static ip4 addresses and one dedicated linux box just for my DNS (its a debian based server running bind9 and all it will do is manage name servers). Should I have a second box also ...
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Mavericks: ping resolves differently from dig

I have BIND9 running on my MBP with a zone for the TLD dev. I then have /etc/resolver/dev setup with the line nameserver 127.0.0.1 so that resolution for that TLD only is performed using my local BIND ...
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configure error "OpenSSL has unsupported dynamic loading" when building bind9

When trying to build bind from sources, ./configure fails with the following output: checking for OpenSSL library... using OpenSSL from /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include checking whether linking ...
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if one nameserver goes down, does that periodically reduce query performance?

If I have multiple NS records for a zone, and one of those authoritative name servers goes down for an extended period of time, does that occasionally slow down all queries because the recursive DNS ...
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How to make my home BIND bypass ISP's DNS filtering?

everyone. My ISP filters DNS requests. How exactly -- I don't know. To avoid (or, at least, mitigate) this issue, I installed my own BIND on 192.168.3.1. Here is my configuration: logging { ...
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What is the purpose 0.in-addr.arpa and 255.in-addr.arpa in bind's default configuration?

I have Ubuntu 16 LTS What is the purpose 0.in-addr.arpa and 255.in-addr.arpa zones in bind's default configuration?(named.conf.default-zones) I ask here because think that these zone files are ...
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Which DNS configuration is better for a MX record type?

Which DNS configuration is better for a MX record type? 1.- Having a single MX reord type mx.domain.com resolving to a two A record type: MX 10 mail.domain.com. -> A 1.1.1.1 ...
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Lying bind DNS cache

I'm trying to configure, to call it in some way, a "lying" DNS server. I mean: A DNS server which acts as a DNS cache (slave) for an existing server but having it's own subset of registers for a few ...
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Sshuttle: DNS not forwarding

I have Sshuttle running on a Raspberry Pi 3. The intention is to use the Pi IP as a gateway so I can connect any networked device to Shuttle just by changing the gateway address to that of the Pi. All ...
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Bind9 does not respond (only) over TCP

The following dig command on the self server works fine . There is no firewall rule on the server related to this . #dig @109.110.160.171 shabdiznet.com +tcp ;; communications error to 109.110.160....
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isc-dhcp-server + BIND9 + Unbound + dnscrypt & DDNS Not working

Original I have a complex DNS set-up on my home router that's running Ubuntu servers. My objective is to be able to, Query my local ISP's DNS for geo leocation sensitive lookups that I care about ...
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Can I configure BIND to query my router for LAN addresses?

As is common with home routers, my router, an ASUS RT-N66U, is configured to act as a caching nameserver for my LAN. It looks like the router uses dnsmasq for name service. The router also offers DHCP ...
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Multiple BIND DNS answers for a single IP address

please, could you help me on this? we require to get correct configuration in BIND DNS in order to get multiple answers for unique IP address, like this: $ORIGIN domain.com. test A 190....
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Need of having Caching in named servers

I am trying to understand why caching is required on the bind server, when the client receiving the responses would be caching based on TTL values. So, Is caching required on the server, if the ...
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How can you satisfy Google's requirement to enforce SafeSearch at the network level?

I have kids that are old enough to start getting curious, and, while I don't think it's an active problem, I'd rather avoid the usual garbage that comes along the average Google search. Google's ...
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CPU usage of named daemon on CentOS 6

I'm having an issue with the name server daemon using up more CPU than I can understand. I got to this issue while trying to figure out why the VPS I'm running feels slow. First off, the problem of ...
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Reverse DNS zone not working publicly

I set up a dns server to run publicly and everything is running ok, except for the reverse zone, which locally is successful but doing the query in any other dns gives the following error: root@ns1:/#...
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BInd9 not woking with ipv4 by default

I have an Debian running Bind9 with many logs like error (network unreachable) resolving so set -4 in /etc/default/bind9 but not forced to work with ipv4 look the /etc/default/bind9 # run ...
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bind9 as local caching name server and /etc/resolv.conf

I'm trying to set up BIND9 as a local caching DNS server. I'm about to do that on all my systems: Linux, SmartOS, Mac OS X. Seems like it's quite easy to setup bind for that. My question is: Do I need ...
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Restrict|Limit DNS Nameservers

I'm running local DNS (BIND9 on primary and secondary Ubuntu servers). On my Ubuntu desktop, however, I've noticed that while it usually seems to be resolving addresses properly with the local DNS ...
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How can I update dynamic IP from pfsense box, using my own DNS server?

Ok, let me try to put this together. I have one pfsense box with one dynamic IP address, and on another location (other country) I'm running VPS with my DNS server (bind9). So now, I want to make ...
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BIND DNS - updating the IP address of the NS record

I'm running a BIND9/Ubuntu DNS server on Amazon EC2. The DNS server was working great, until I decided to change the IP address on the server to a different one (using the elastic IP system.) Any ...
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Using BIND to perform DNS redirection

How can I use BIND software to redirect Domain Names from the DNS or zone files?
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Lookup correct, yet no ping

I have setup a local raspberry pi to be a DNS server for the office. It worked (almost) perfectly, until we moved down a floor in the office. The firewall and setup for the network is exactly the ...
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Reverse DNS setup not working - BIND on CentOS 7

I haven't setup BIND before but am quite knowledgable with DNS (I'm from the Windows world). I'm having a reverse DNS issue. Forward DNS is working fine for the zone int.linuxlab Here are the ...
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Why can't I have two records for the same name with different TTLs?

I just renewed my TLS certificates, but I haven't installed the new ones yet. I thought I'd add new TLSA records, lower the TTLs of the old ones, wait a while, then swap the certs out and delete the ...
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How do I debug Bind9 DNS server configuration? It is not sending requests to forwarders

I have got DNS Bind9 server installed on my VirtualBox Debian host. Another host from the same network has the nameserver address set as IP_OF_MACHINE_WITH_BIND. This was working ok for some time. ...
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How to navigate to a subdomain without specifying the domain? (in a web browser)

I want to be able to navigate to my home network's web server from my browser without having to type in any domain or top level domain. For example, I want to type: http://mylinuxbox/ and have it ...

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