Translates domain names to IP addresses. DNS stands for Domain Name System.

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Port Forwarding A Minecraft Server

I tried portforwarding my Minecraft Server on my Netgear R6300, using this video, which the results are displayed at 2:19 at the video. I forwarded my address 192.168.1.5 and the port 25565. My friend ...
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Manually configuring DNS server - raspbian

I have written a simple script to allow a user to manually config their IP address and DNS server. The DNS servers are changed by creating a new /etc/resolv.conf file with the lines the user has ...
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Can't load certain websites in Mountain Lion which load fine on Win7 laptop

This last week or so I have experienced problems being able to load github.com yet it loads fine on my phone, my Win7 laptop which are all connected over the same network. It wont work again until I ...
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Apache - block requests TO my IP

I've been Googling this for a few days now but it shows me how to block FROM IP, not TO. I have an Apache/CentOS 6 web server running a few minor family sites from my house with a dynamic IP updated ...
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Mac mDNSResponder.plist error

So, a friend of mine has been having trouble with his internet (skype is working, but browsers suddenly stopped working - both Safari and Firefox, and no access to the Apple app store). After trying ...
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What should be the rdns? Hostname or mail.domain.com

Hotmail sends my email to junk folder. I want to correct this situation. First I checked my reverse dns record. My rdns is mail.domain.com When I test with mxtoolbox it gives an error "Reverse DNS ...
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Route dns+dhcp requests through iptables?

I have a Raspberry Pi which I'm attempting to use as a range extender for my home wifi network. I've installed and setup hostapd with the same settings as my router, so that any devices will select ...
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Can Dnsmasq or DNRD forward all DNS packets pass my router?

I have a embedded Linux box as a router which has two interfaces. One interface is connected to public network by dialing into ISP. Another interface (its IP is 192.168.1.1) is connected to LAN ...
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Reconnecting pc to domain?

Computer (part of domain) has been out of use for 5 weeks. Will PC be able to connect to domain if I turn it on now. If not why?
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CentOS 6 64Bit For DNS for my domain

Entries in DNS (named) are like www A 1.1.1.1 mail A 2.2.2.2 Well I am using wordpress in www.mydomainname.com now I have www.mydomain.com/?pageid=16 used for blogs so I want to add a entry in ...
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Slow dns lookup in any browser

For example in a Firefox when I'm opening any website that I didn't visit for last 3-5 minutes it takes like 10 seconds to load the websites. In the upper FireFox tab I see this for ten or more ...
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How to resolve a web address ip

Let's say I have http://some.site-address.com and I want to find the IP that this address resolves to. How do I do that?
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Edit Chrome DNS Cache

I am in the process of a major website overhaul, and we are moving a website between servers with different IP addresses. During this overhaul/redesign process I would like to be able to access both ...
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Most Challenging Troubleshoot ? Laptop not opening a specific site tried everything?

this is a very very expert question that is remain unanswered in years either a bug or anything I don't know but somebody have to solve it - lets work together and find a solution, let me state the ...
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How to point subdomain and subdirectory to another hosting

I have a domain, for example domain.com and I have a subdomain - e.g subdomain.domain.com My domain.com has a dedciated IP and in its root directory of it I have installed Wordpress. Another ...
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Server 2003 Multihomed due to iSCSI DNS Issue

I need some help. I have a server 2003 setup as DC with DNS, DHCP and AD. I also have a QNAP SAN attached to it via iSCSI which has client shares on it. The server is configured and for the most part, ...
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local interface IPs in /etc/hosts

Is it normal to put a machine's own network IP's into /etc/hosts ? I've never seen it done before, and i'm pretty sure it's a bad idea... There's a cultural habit here of /etc/hosts files that look ...
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shorewall - can't resolve hostname - unix

I'm tinkering with a network server trying to learn a few things. So to get things started I installed shorewall as a firewall. I've encountered a problem where I can't resolve the hostname from ...
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Static DNS servers keep defaulting windows 7

I'm using Google's DNS servers for my Wireless and LAN connections. However, every couple of hours the DNS server seems to be resetting and the static DNS server values are removed. The below user ...
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Sharing folder to a domain server without adding it to the domain server

I was trying to share a folder in my local pc that other pc's can access but when i try to look for it in the server in the network i can't seen to see it. the server is in a domain and the pc that is ...
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How to solve this DNS issue?

I have an Apache web server (on a Windows VPS) and a while ago I registered a .tk domain. Then I picked (ns1.afraid.org) and (ns2.afraid.org) as my name servers and I pointed mydomain.tk to ...
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How to access home computer with dynamic IP? [duplicate]

My friend want to access cctv connected to his computer. However, his computer has dynamic IP. I supposes he wants a domain name to point to that dynamic IP. How to do so?
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Can you surf to a site that has shared hosting with ipadress?

Is it possible to surf to a site that has shared hosting on the web hotel with the ipadress? Can you change the hosts file in any way?
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OSX - Using different DNS for different network interface

I've an OSX Mountain Lion system and, if it's possible, I need to use different DNS servers for different networks. I'm going to explain my situation: I'm at work. I'm connected to work network (by ...
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Windows Server 2008 r2 VPN - non static external IP

Is it possible to set up a VPN to a network where the VPN host has a dynamic IP address? My ISP does not provide a static IP, though on my router I have assigned the sever a static internal IP. I have ...
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Will nslookup work without configuring reverse lookup?

I have empty reverse lookup entries in my active directory DNS server. But nslookup is working fine even if i give "*nslookup ip_address*". How can it resolve the ip_address to Some FQN without ...
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Set up internal DNS to point to that DNS server?

I have Windows Server 2008 running on my network with the following properties: Internal IP: 192.168.1.100 External IP: 242.24.124.12 Now I have registered a domain (example.com) and have it ...
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DNS Equivalent of Hosts file alias

Two part question: 1) In DNS, how do you replicate the effect of an alias in your host file? 2) Is there a way to have a space in the alias?
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LAN Browser URL-Bar Keyword/Phrase Redirects

In the past I worked for one of the large US Banks. They had it setup, where you could type certain keywords/phrases into the URL bar of your browser, and it would load the respective relevant ...
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How to know list of sites visited on my computer using resolvers

I don't want to look at Browser's history or other monitoring tools to find out sites visited on my computer. I know that for every domain, browser sends a domain name resolution request to DNS ...
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DNS: Possible to hide destination server from behind URL?

I am considering hosting a web application with a PaaS provider called CloudBees. The only thing about the Free Tier (which is what I'm using) of CloudBees is that they make your web app available at ...
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DNS: Can a URL that looks like a subdirectory be mapped to a different IP address?

If my website blah.example.com has an IP address of X.X.X.X, then can I have a URL that appears to be a subdirectory, such as blah.example.com/fizz, be mapped to a totally different IP address (say, ...
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Setting up DNS inside VMware with multiple VM's [closed]

I'm sorta new to the Virtualization thing so I'm trying to learn. My ultimate goal is to setup a small testing environment with a DNS server, web server, and the ability to connect to all the machines ...
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Cookieless Domain [closed]

I'm struggling setting up a cookieless domain. I've got lampp/apache installed on my https://example.com domain . I've also purchased another domain www.exstatic.com . I want to serve all my ...
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Do I need to change the CNAME entries for moving a custom domain served blogger blog to another domain? (NOT changeing registrar, just DNS services) [migrated]

Some customer has GoDaddy as registrar and as DNS services provider for some domain of theirs. They also have a blog at blogger for which they have setup the zone file to contain the required ...
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Cloud fallback for free tier using other free tier service?

So a lot of "cloud" services are proliferating lately that allow you to use "one web worker" in the free tier for unlimited amount of time: heroku, appharbor, etc. Now, let's say I want to build a ...
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clients computers can't resolve windows server's DNS name to join to domain

I have set up a Windows Server 2012 Standard edition at home for learning purposes with the IP 10.1.1.2/16. I also have an ADSL wireless router which connects everything together and works as the DHCP ...
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DNS setup on a VPS. Should I change something on the domaine registrar?

I installed a DNS server on my VPS running Windows 2012 server. I created ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com pointing to the vps ip address. Now do I have to change something on the domain ...
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Can I still use Gmail if Google is blocked by OpenDNS?

OpenDNS blocks access to all search engines, including Google, on my network. I don't necessarily need to search Google, but it would be nice if I could access Gmail still. If it's not possible to do ...
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VPN or a tunnel to carry only DNS traffic

A firewall implements DNS blocking ( and not IP blocking) and it aggressively filters port 53 which means I cannot use third party DNS servers such as Google DNS serves. Are there any free services ...
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I set up Bind9 dns server by myself. Is there some solution for 2-Level DNS?

I have the resourse: Aws Ec-2 virtual host: named "SERVER" with public IP "50.50.50.48" (for example) A Url "www.example.com" that already bind with IP "50.50.50.48". (1-level) DNS in internet. Two ...
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Getting started with a Windows Server 2012 based Source Control and Continuous Integration self hosted solution [closed]

I am the only developer of a start up game design studio working on a project. I have been using bitbucket for hosting, but I want to transition to something behind my firewall for source control, ...
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attached domain name own pc [closed]

I'm interested buying a domain name then installing it into my linux PC, but I couldn't find resources on how to do it. So far as I search, terms such as BIND, dyndns came up, but I don't understand ...
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How do I redirect a domain to another domain locally?

My /etc/hosts file looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.20.7.67 testsitealpha.dev othersite.dev testsitebeta.dev The first two work. The last one doesn't. Why not? How do I make it ...
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Win7 DNS Client not working correctly

I have the strangest problem in my admin life so far that is haunting me for almost more than a year and I can't seem to find a solution for it. While we work on our network we almost always use our ...
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DNS Issue after Infection

Had a machine I cleaned for someone that had a boot sector virus. All is good with it except for the fact that it won't resolve external addresses. Anything on the internal domain it resolves, but ...
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Manually add a DNS “A” record in a text file (no cPanel, ancient server)

My boss has me working on an ancient server at his place where there is no fancy cPanel to create sub/addon domains. Basically what we have is a plain-text file that appears to be controlling all the ...
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is it possible for a server to know which client(IP) did a DNS query for its domain name?

Let's assume I have a domain name, for example, myproxy.com. Then I have many websites, like kitty.myproxy.com , wow.myproxy.com I want to configure an authoritative DNS server for the domain name. I ...
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Delegation for subsubdomains with BIND

This is a hypothetical situation. Domain: top.com. Authoritative server: master.top.com. Zone file: $TTL 24h $ORIGIN top.com. top.com. IN SOA master.top.com. ...
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Why does using google's dns break browsing to local network websites?

Here's the story. There's a local sharepoint server called brksharepoint at ip address 10.2.1.40. I had set up my computer to use google's dns because I found it to be more reliable than my local ...

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