Questions tagged [dns]
Translates domain names to IP addresses. DNS stands for Domain Name System.
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No computers on my network can access my website
I'm stumped by this one!
My website : https://www.genyx.co.uk/business/
Will not load on my PC, iPhone, Netbook or any other computers connected to my network (Virgin 100MB)
The website loads for ...
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DNS when using split VPN on Windows
I'm using split-VPN on Windows XP as shown in:
VPN: Does all traffic get routed through the VPN when I am logged in?
My question is: how do I find out where DNS requests go? If I type an address (...
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DNS resolution slow, ping domain slow, ping ip fast, nslookup fast
I have a problem with my laptop with Windows 7 installed, and I'm not sure how to go around finding the cause of this. Everything works fine on another laptop with Windows 7.
I've noticed that ...
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Bind9 - How Can I Host a Custom Domain Extension On My Intranet?
I'll start this with an example of what we are trying to achieve:
http://domain.ext
where ".ext" is custom, in example .loc or .hrd or .one, ect.
My first impression is to create a zone ...
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Domains to ip:port forwarder (2 servers, 15 domains, 1 IP)
I have 1 external IP address, but 2 web-severs (one is IIS and another is Apache) in network that host around 15 domains.
I need a solution that would check all port 80 requests, detect which domain ...
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Website is working but cannot view from home
Here's a puzzle.
Last year I bought some hosting from a hosting company and pointed a number of domains that I own to run from this service. All domains working fine and publicly accessible.
Then a ...
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nameserver spoiling avahi multicast name resolution of .local domain
After trying to ping a machine on my local network, I noticed that I was trying hit address 66.152.109.24. This is an external public address. Resolution should have occurred via avahi mDNS. I ran ...
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CNAME pointing to one FQDN, but taking me to a different one
We have an apache server that runs our work Intranet (intranet.domain.com), as well as a test site with restricted access (dummy.domain.com). Both are in DNS and both work when I go to the full ...
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webmin bind issue- error when i try to start bind
I am setting up a domain = mydomain.com with 2 nameservers ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com in Webmin -> BIND.
For this, I have registered 2 child nameservers at my domain registrar, and in ...
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Yahoo pages not loading
When I type in www.yahoo.com on the address bar, it loads some page with random pop ups and spurious links. It was working well all along till yesterday. Other sites like gmail, facebook load and no ...
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Does it make a difference if I specify IP or domain name with a local server?
I have a computer in my house set up at, say <domname>.dyndns.org, it also has a local IP of 192.168.1.101. Is it consistently faster to use <domname>.dyndns.org or the IP for SSH (when ...
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Automatically update ip-address in hosts file?
My development environment is Ubuntu guest OS inside VMWare Player with Windows 7 as the host OS. I edit the hosts file in windows to point http://dev.mydomain.com to the ip-address of my VM so that ...
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Is there any way to add nameserver without modification of configuration files?
I need to add my own nameserver, but if I boot installation CD/DVD, I can't edit configuration files. So I'm searching for any way to add the nameserver from terminal.
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Apache Name Based VirtualHosts and DNS "www" issue
I'm not sure how to solve my problem. It is that my Apache2 is configured to serve 3 different VirtualHosts. That depends on the Domains.
The config is:
NameVirtualHost example.eu:80
<VirtualHost ...
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My ISP requires to set a specific computer name and primary DNS suffix. Is it possible to do this in a WiFi Router?
My ISP provides setup instructions for the Internet connection, where among other things it is required to set a specific computer name and a primary DNS suffix. These settings are provided for ...
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I can't resolve s3 dns from time-to-time
I'm using the .net SDK to talk to S3, but too often I get the following exception:
The remote name could not be resolved: 's3.amazonaws.com'
I'm using the two standard OpenDNS DNS servers, and ...
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Why is my wireless router screwing up hostname lookups?
The problem: I have two computers on my wireless network (domain name "serenity", at 192.168.1.1), hostnames "jayne" (Arch Linux, at 192.168.1.108), and "mal" (Mac OS X, at 192.168.1.101). When I try ...
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Cannot remote desktop to Windows Server 2008 R2 by machine name
Recently installed Windows Home Server 2011. For those that don't know, it runs on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Unfortunately, I cannot remote desktop to box by machine name I gave it. I set the ...
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DNS look up fails
I turned my router off for the weekend. When I got back today I couldn't access any sites. Usually I access my router by typing in speedtouch.LAN but today I had to use its IP address. I pinged both ...
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How long would it take to make a dns domain forward from one address to another?
Here's an example. We've got a Swedish train station service Webpage. "skanetrafiken.se"
What's strange is that you spell Skane with special character Å "Skåne" so what you would want is ...
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how to access computers on dd-wrt LAN using hostnames, when connected to a university VPN?
So I have a dd-wrt router connected to my cable modem. Behind that router on my lan are computers with hostnames le1700, wind and t60p. On each machine, I am simply able to do a nslookup and it ...
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Ubuntu: Linux can browse sites, bash can't even resolve the dns name - Huh!
I've been work on this all day and I'm as mystified as when I started. I have an Ubuntu 10 system. On the desktop I have firefox and a bash shell running. Firefox can see and browse any site (I'm ...
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Router resolves LAN DNS names to WAN IPs
I have a router on a LAN with 4 computers. One computer is a server with a static IP; the others are dynamic IP. All 4 DNS names resolve to an IP that is outside my LAN (i.e. a 208.* address instad of ...
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DrayTek 2820n: LAN to LAN VPN connected, but half working
We have two locations, both using a DrayTek 2820n. Location 1 (L1) features a PDC, DNS, DHCP server (SBS 2008) with IP 10.1.1.2. Location 2 (L2) has a Windows 7 laptop only. Both locations are ...
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Can Ping on an iPod Touch cause DNS issues with other devices on the network?
So I was playing with my iPod Touch recently and I accidentally tapped "Ping" while using the iTunes app. The app then went blank and became stuck in a holding pattern, as if it were trying to ...
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Configure a SPF rule on Ubuntu
Where I can create/insert the SPF rules to allow a external server to authenticate and send e-mails using the domain name of my server running Ubuntu?
I need to insert this rule:
v=spf1 ip4:111.111....
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Cisco VPN Client interrupts connectivity to my LDAP server
I run an LDAP server on my home network to store accounts, automount entries, etc. I spent a lot of time getting the LDAP server configured properly for OS X clients, and everything seems to work, ...
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Windows DNS resolution
I can't connect to a server in my domain
C:\Users\evil>nslookup winserver
Server: m0n0wall.local
Address: 192.168.123.254
Name: winserver
Address: 192.168.123.246
this is ok, nslookup ...
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DNS servers cached and won't go away
I'm having an odd problem that probably has a simple solution that I'm missing. I switched our wireless router to different DNS servers (google's public DNS in lieu of our ISPs). In the router ...
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How to display DNS cache in Ubuntu 9.04 running Firefox?
How to display DNS cache in Ubuntu 9.04 running Firefox?
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Snow Leopard doesn't like dnsmasq?
My Macbook running Snow Leopard cannot resolve some hosts on my local network (which has a local DNS server). Running nslookup and dig works (they get the expected address from the expected server). ...
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Mac internet speed
I'm trying to diagnose some internet speed issues on my MacBook. It's happening everywhere I use the internet -- at home (Comcast), at work, at my favorite cigar store. (All are wireless.)
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Intermittent DNS failures after upgrading to Snow Leopard
After a fairly painless upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard, I was able to download a few things. Then I started having difficulty connecting to multiple sites. Network service would come back from ...
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Is it possible to have a single IP for a VM in different networks?
I am learning about DNS administration in Linux. And I do it in my office and home. In office my IP range is 10.x.x.x/21 whereas in my home, my IP range is 192.x.x.x/24. Since I am learning DNS by ...
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Speed up bind queries by forcing cache
I have a BIND server on Debian and would like to know what are the options that could allow me to cache domain requests so that served queries are stored in RAM for a while without having to ...
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Why can’t I seem to access the website hosted on my domain using Apache and Route 53?
I installed Apache on my EC2 instance to serve my website. I bought the domain for the website from GoDaddy.
To serve the website on AWS hosted EC2 instance, I created a hosted zone in Route53 for the ...
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macOS cannot access custom .local domain
I have a custom DNS server using Adguard Home. Router is configured to use Adguard Home as the DNS server and a lot of .local domain names are defined there. Eg. media.local.
All my Windows, Android, ...
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Xfinity router WiFi DNS not refreshed?
I setup a new domain name. It's active and working from:
Mobile Network
Wired ethernet connection
Other WiFi (not mine)
using a VPN
It is NOT working from:
Xfinity WiFi without a VPN
My Xfinity ...
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Is this diagram of a recursive DNS query accurate?
I am reviewing DNS concepts and came across this diagram
This diagram of a DNS recursive query seems inaccurate to me. From my understanding of DNS, the root name servers, the TLD name servers and ...
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Disconnecting a mail washer and emails bouncing
A few days ago suddenly all incoming emails for several domains on my Centos 7.x server were being bounced and still are; outgoing email was and is still working. We suspect a cPanel update might be ...
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Is it possible to have a DNS NS record point to a domain from outside the queried nameserver's domain?
For example, say you lookup ns records for df.uba.ar by querying uba.ar's nameserver, say ns.uba.ar.
Can a record from that query refer you to the nameserver of df.uba.ar at an address completely ...
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Is DNS-over-HTTPS(DOH) depended on at least one regular DNS query via UDP port 53 to function?
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Operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android), but also browsers (Firefox, Brave, Edge, etc.) have ways to use DOH.
DNS-over-HTTPS works by the system talking to an endpoint like '...
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how do you do find out what domain an ip address is associated with?
When I do:
ping www.google.com
it comes back with a response
PING www.google.com (172.253.122.147): 56 data bytes
So this means www.google.com resolves to 172.253.122.147.
What command(s) can I run ...
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Is DNS hacking for unit testing code with HTTP connections possible or sensible?
Is there a sensible way to hijack DNS in a limited way to mock outgoing HTTP connections, with a local test server?
The idea is that the code would execute just the same way it normally would, but the ...
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How can a faulty DNS entry in the router's RA cause WiFi disconnections on a phone?
I have a home network with a router provided by the ISP (Free in France). This router supports IPv6 and broadcasts RA which includes the DNS to use. It also offers DHCP services and forwards DNS ...
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Plesk Obsidian: How to set up a sub-domain on a different Plesk server
We have a Plesk server with the parent Domain, the Plesk main domain runs fine.
We have a new PlesK Obsidian server specifically for holding a specific subdomain of the main domain. This is a ...
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2 email servers for single domain, one for sending and other for receiving
Is it possible to have 2 email servers for domain. One for sending and other for receiving
Let's say I have a domain xyz.com, I set a email server with mx record so that any email destined for domain ...
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Dynamic DNS NAT for IPv4 and AAAA for IPv6 - is it possible?
I have a router named alice, and servers named bob and charlie. I want to be able to use IPv6 to go directly to alice, bob, or charlie, and I want IPv4 to continue to work, giving me alice's address ...
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pfSense host DNS resolver not working in guest VM (Ubuntu or NixOS)
I was recommended to move this to superuser from servervault, hopefully it's appropriate for here.
I'm a hobbyist / tinkerer using bhyve (in pfSense running on a physical machine) to start up a Linux ...
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Arch Linux Domain resolution stopped working
After a system upgrade (pacman -Syu) today, no domain names can be looked up. Networking is working fine, I can "ping 8.8.8.8" and ping "1.1.1.1" which are my DNS servers. However, ...
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