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Can't get BIND and NS to work properly [closed]
I just got myself an unmanaged Dedicated VPS from OVH and I don't have a prior experience of setting up servers or DNS servers but I followed a couple of tuts and installed webmin and created NS Zones ...
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I want to expose “easy” URL's for machines on a home network. Is custom DNS/BIND the answer?
I recently convinced my room mates to cut the cord and go cable free, and they've found it pretty great so far. I'm in the process of setting up a pretty sweet, mostly automated home theater setup ...
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Bind DNS rate-limit and values for responses-per-second and window
In my DNS server's named.conf I see
rate-limit {
responses-per-second 5;
window 5;
};
What does this actually mean? And can it cause DNS clients problems?
Is this ...
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centos 6, hostname won't resolve, dns issue, loop detected
I've searched everywhere and tried all the suggestions that I've seen, but I just can't get this to work now (it was working before). This is the first time I've ever installed a test server that I ...
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“Fake” DNS for a single host
I am running a bind9 dns server at my home network, serving for all my internal servers in my domain local / 192.168.x.x - one of those, extweb.local 192.168.1.33 is also visible from the internet as ...
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Configuring ssh fingerprints on dns to replace known_hosts fails
The SSHFP records were generated on the ssh server as follows and then added to the zone in bind:
$ ssh-keygen -r www.test.us.
www.test.us. IN SSHFP 1 1 ad04dfaf343a93beeb939eed1612168f7eadbed7
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In a recursive dns query what happens ttl = 0?
in name resolution (current version of bind), what happens when a recursive answer reaches ttl 0 on the return trip?
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dig @nameserver doesn't work
I have Ubuntu 12.04 with BIND9, working just as a caching server (forwarding to 8.8.8.8).
When I use, for example, dig +norecurse @l.root-servers.net www.uniroma1.it, I obtain the following output
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possible spots to configure BIND-DNS forwarders
i'm investigating our BIND's configuration and can not figure out how it is aware of it's next name server to ask for some domain he's not authorative server for...
e.g. home domain is ...
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BIND server doesn't recognize my zone properly
I'm pretty new to BIND so I was hoping maybe someone can help me understand why I can't resolve. What is wrong?
named.conf
options {
listen-on port 53 { localhost; 10.30.0.10; };
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Creating a new TLD for private network
I want to setup a new TLD (foo.) for my the private network so that I can host some child domains which will be accessible from within the network. For this purpose I have setup a DNS server ...
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bind9named binary missing - not starting
I have just compiles and installed BIND 9.9.1-P1 on Debian 6.0 as the version in the repositories is too old for Samba4, and am getting the said error. I have been looking for source for named, but ...
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How can I reset or lower the serial used in BIND DNS server's “SOA” record?
I use BIND as my DNS server at home. For my SOA record (start of authority) I always use a serial in the recommended format
YYYYMMDD##
where ## is the counter for changes on that day.
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How to create reverse-lookup file for BIND that points to some networks?
I am try to create a reverse-lookup file in BIND, but I need it to point to many networks not just one.
I have three networks that connected to the same bind server, 192.168.3 and 192.168.4 and ...
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How to configure a catch-all CNAME on Ubuntu Linux using BIND 9
I'm trying to set up APE server on my local system. I'm using Ubuntu and BIND and I need to set up a catch-all CNAME record.
What would be required for this?
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How to let `named` (bind9) forward certain domains to a different nameserver?
In dnsmasq, it's possible to forward domains to different nameservers. How can I do that in named?
server=/foo.com/10.0.10.1
server=/vpn.foo.com/8.8.8.8
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unable to start named service
Whenever I try to run the named service, I get the following even though my permissions and folder ownership is all fine:
[root@f13 ~]# service named start
Starting named:
Error in named ...
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Do rndc keys expire after a year?
Yesterday, I noticed an error in a bind zone file, and after correcting it, I tried to restart bind9, but the service refused to stop, displaying this error:
rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: ...
