Domain Name System (DNS) is a service that provides the resolution of host names to IP addresses.

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Define custom DNS server when looking up host

I'm having trouble with my current web host's DNS server which doesn't correctly resolve IP addresses for Baidu. shell_exec('host -W 2 180.76.5.168'); shell_exec('nslookup 180.76.5.168'); Is there ...
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CentOS VPS - Pointing my Domain name to the VPS static IP

I am a Linux Newbie. I have a VPS with CentOS installed at my ISP and I am managing it remotely. Up to this point, I have had shared webhosting on a Linux machine at my ISP where I had CPANEL ...
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Solaris 11 nslookup reverses ip

From (Solaris 11.1 with current patches, m4000 128GB) syslog: Jun 17 10:06:14 sun-m4k-03 sendmail[4993]: [ID 702911 mail.warning] gethostbyaddr(10.128.4.50) failed: 1 The ip is valid from the ...
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Always look up non-FQDN domains as .example.com?

When I connect to the company OpenVPN they don't push their DNS to my computer, which means I have to type the FQDN for the hosts I e.g. SSH and HTTP to. Question Is it possible to configure my ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 resolver setup

When investigating how the DNS setup of my os (Ubuntu 12.04) works, I came to some questions I could not really find on the web. So what I observed was, that ubuntu uses Dnsmasq as a DNS resolver. ...
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How can I be sure that access to my home server from my home network is not done via Internet?

As advised in this question: Network file-sharing between Linux and Android, I have decided to use ownCloud to store files on my home cloud server. However, my needs have changed a bit. I want to be ...
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Why `host` and `nslookup` on Solaris 10 resolves hostnames while `ping` and `telnet` does not?

/etc/resolv.conf contains a nameserver that is alive (as reported by the ping command) host or nslookup is able to resolve google.com $ host google.com google.com has address 74.125.228.3 google.com ...
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Configuring DNS resolver failover timeout

We have all of our systems set up to do internal DNS to a local name server and a secondary name server so that in the event the local DNS server is down they should go over the WAN to the secondary ...
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Ubuntu server cannot access the Internet: appears DNS related

This is a Drupal website running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on Linode. The server is just a website. It is not a DNS server or anything else. Here are my issues. It seems they are all related to DNS issues. ...
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Looking up a local domain name without specifying the local DNS server

I've set up a local domain name by creating a zone (by following the steps in this tutorial). Why I look the domain using dig, I get the right results when using the following command: dig ...
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Apache subdomain can not be resolved

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName domain.no-ip.org ServerAlias www.domain.no-ip.org DocumentRoot /var/www/main ErrorLog ...
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Postfix: 554 5.7.1 Relay Access Denied

My Problem is this: I can send E-Mails from my E-Mail ([email protected]) to my other Emails like @gmail @web @gmx ... But when I try to send a E-Mail from GMail to [email protected] I have the ...
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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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Why is dnsmasq putting my router IP in /etc/resolv.conf instead of 127.0.0.1?

I'm having DNS resolution issues in various contexts which appear to trace back to my networking configuration. I'm running just the dnsmasq-base installation of dnsmasq on two Linux installations ...
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Why is resolv.conf spelled without the 'e'? [duplicate]

A curiosity question which google has been unable to answer for me: Why is 'resolv.conf' spelled without the trailing 'e'? I'm sure there's a valid historical reason going back to the early days of ...
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Fedora 18: can't resolve hosts

My Fedora 18 machine is having problems with resolving hosts: Could not resolve host: ...; No address associated with hostname] HTTP error on [https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens], ...
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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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How can I configure dnsmasq to resolve based on the source of the request?

I'm trying to get SiriProxy to work whenever I'm connected to my home network by setting up dnsmasq on my router running the Tomato firmware to send all requests to the Apple Siri server to my local ...
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perform ping test to change dns

I wrote this script to check if my dns server works fine or not, and if not change it. but it gives out error ./dns-ping.sh: line 15: ((: 3 < : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "< ...
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Could not resolve host error

I'm using Arch Linux and I have a dynamic ip address with the use of dhcpcd. I can access websites through the google chrome but the problem is that I get 'could not resolve host' error when I run ...
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Host lookup that respects /etc/hosts

Utilities like host and dig let you see the IP address corresponding to the host name. There is also the getent utility that can be used to query /etc/hosts or other NSS databases. I am looking for ...
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Can DNS identify hostnames dynamically if they're statically configured?

I've got a small environment of ~40 VMs with static IPs on 12 servers, it would be dandy if I could refer to each VM by name. We have a lot of VMs come and go, so maintaining one static list is a ...
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Ubuntu: How to configure DNS servers in /etc/network/interfaces correctly for resolvconf?

All examples I have seen of configurations (/etc/network/interfaces) showed that you configure an interface and then underneath that gave the dns-* lines such as: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static ...
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How to setup whatever.localhost.dev to resolve into 127.0.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04?

I'm running Ubunut 12.04 I want *localhost.dev to point to 127.0.0.1. Ubuntu 12.04 comes with dnsmasq-base installed with network-manager. But there is no /etc/dnsmasq.conf. So I installed the ...
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How do Apache2 VirtualHosts get resolved?

As I understand it, when you request a url from a website using your browser, it asks the DNS server that the OS is pointing at if it knows the ip address that relates to the dns-name of the server; ...
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Firefox unable to access domains defined in /etc/hosts if Network Manager is disconnected from a network

For developing web sites, I define test domains in /etc/hosts : 127.0.0.1 example.org I can then access example.org in the browsers. However I when the Network Manager is not connected to any ...
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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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Method to perform DNS lookup step very quickly during wget

When I download any document from internet using wget. It shows maximum amount of time consumed in getaddrinfo(). I know getaddrinfo() used for DNS lookup. Tell me any method, so that this time is ...
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How to flush local DNS cache in CentOS

(I am aware that googling this question gives me tons of stuff, but literally none worked) I'm looking for a way to flush the local DNS cache on a Centos 6 system, it is not running any DNS server or ...
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No DNS on Debian wifi after unplugging the DNS cable

I have installed wheezy Release Candidate 1 to my old laptop (Benq Joybook A52) right now, and I have some problem with my wireless card (Atheros 5006). It can actually see the wireless networks, I ...
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Setup of DNS zone with secure zone updates

OS: Linux Mint Can someone please details the steps or point to the right material to achieve the below. run a dns server with a zone for a local domain? able to add dynamic entries to the dns zone ...
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How to detect particular system call called or not in a whole workflow?

EDIT No. 1 My task is mirroring , i.e., copying updated data from master server to all mirrors, by using rsync and rsh. But during rsync and rsh, I found some delay. My thinking is , the reason for ...
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Incoming/Outgoing seperation for VPN

My situation is that I want all my outgoing connections from my Debian server to pass through a commercial VPN service I've subscribed to, but I still want to run public-accessible services on this ...
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Server returning 'Not Found' for “www.host.com” but not “host.com”

My server is returning the correct paths for all of my domains as long as they are not prefixed with www. The following is one of my domains in it's simplest form: <VirtualHost *:80> ...
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Command/scripts to check the Reverse DNS Lookup time

I am working on a project in which one master communicates with numbers of slaves. For that it has to make connection with hosts in network. But sometimes it hangs. I think that the reason behind is ...
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DNS cache for wget

I want wget to use a global DNS cache, not just in memory for the current instance. The wget manual mentions --no-dns-cache Turn off caching of DNS lookups. Normally, Wget remembers the IP ...
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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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How to make dns resolve faster

I changed name server of one domain. Then I flush dns root@host [~]# /etc/init.d/named restart Stopping named: [ OK ] Starting named: ...
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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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Why is sendmail appending my hostname to unknown destination domain?

I am testing the handling of mail bouncing. When I send a test email to a bad domain, for example: [email protected], I get the following error in my log: SYSERR(root): ...
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Alternative to DNS for internal servers

I am setting up my first network at work. All the servers are running CentOS 6.3 and have statically assigned IP addresses. For example: server1 192.168.0.101 server2 192.168.0.102 I want to be ...
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How to test DNS speed?

I am using google open DNS now. I want to test it's speed. How can I? I can ping and see that it gets faster. I need some faster way.
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Name Lookup takes a long time

I was using a script that uses curl. Quite often curl fail. The error is name lookup timed out I tried to ping google.com and and other sites. Indeed dns (or whatever do the translation from domain ...
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Rebuilding sendmail on FreeBSD application server after adding new activedirectory domain controller to network

In the process of adding a new ActiveDirectory domain controller to our network, we decided to rename the domain from "domain.local" to "domain.priv." I scoured all parts of our application server for ...
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Adding multiple sites at once to forward-zone of Unbound?

The usual format for Unbound forward-zone is forward-zone: name: "imap.gmail.com" forward-addr: 8.8.8.8 #googleDNS forward-addr: 8.8.4.4 #googleDNS for example. Is it possible to add multiple ...
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Opendns setup failed. How to fix it?

I have problems trying to configure OpenDNS. I have contacted OpenDNS support but they did not answer. I cannot access websites like Twitter and Facebook. I tried welcome.opendns.com (did not ...
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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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understanding DNS in ubuntu 12.04

I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed, and also use unbound and usually use openDNS as my DNS server. When I run dig google.com say I get SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1). What exactly is this thing listening ...
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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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Make nslookup use specific interface

On my computer I have two network cards. Both are using different Internet Providers service. Both Internet service provider have different DNS server and their IP address are known to me. I want to ...

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