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Is there a good and free web-based service, that lets me see all DNS-records (A, MX, SOA etc) for a given domain?
Edit: added requirement "free".
Started by Kjensen on
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Additionally,....
I just tried http://www.digdns.org/dig-dns and http record types.
A Google search will turn up lots.
Mxtoolbox.com also is good for MX record lookup, but they tend of layout better.
DNSStuff.com has some good tools.
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Say you own a abcd.com and you only want to use it to send and receive email via bob@abcd.com . You don't want to provide any kind of website.
Can you set up the DNS records to include an "MX" record and no "A" record?
Is this enough for sending and receiving...
Started by frou on
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Strictly speaking, mail.otherdomain.com should....
As long as the name.
For example: example.com can have a MX record pointing at mail.otherdomain.com .
As long as the system pointed at by the MX record has an A record itself, then yes.
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Lets say I have a webserver, called 'www'. www.example.com resolves to the IP address of that machine. Then I wanna make some virtual hosts, and DNS records for them, like webmail.example.com.
For 'webmail', should I put in an A record with www's IP address...
Started by Rory McCann on
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When a request maps to a CNAME, it needs to then look... .
Using a CNAME effectively doubles the lookups on the DNS server.
As a separate domain with there own set of DNS records (makes it easier later on if they need to be split out.
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I had my personal site at freehostia and now i have shifted to some other server. It has been close to a week, and ofcourse as the NameServers changed for the new host, i made the required changes with domain-register-company, for my domain.
Now when ...
Started by Vivek Sharma on
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While my problem was with....
How long a DNS record is cached typically depends on the TTL.
Try checking what are answers for dns are using is caching the old result.
One week sounds quite long.
Depends on dns ttl record.
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What happens when I change a Name Server record or an A record in the Zone file or the DNS settings?
I don't really understand how the internet and DNS works. I am inundated with terms I don't understand when trying to read about it on wikipedia. I don't have a computer science background.
When changing a Name Server record from ns1.oldserver.com to ...
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The record gets DNS client knows the IP addresses of the root servers - these are a set of servers (I think it's 13 www.domain.com, and get back the actual....
Find a book such as DNS: What It Is and What It Does - For Dummies useful.
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Can a DNS record point to an address like my.domain.com/subdir1
Started by Hannes de Jager on
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You're looking for a HTTP redirect....
CNAME records can only point to DNS records.
DNS records only map IP addresses to hostnames so in a word, no
You could, however, use a hostname server software, not DNS.
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I know it's valid to have a DNS A record that's a wildcard (e.g. *.mysite.com). Is it possible/valid/advised to have a wildcard CNAME record?
Started by Ben Mills on
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In termsFar as I remember you can(ish) sorta do this, but then that CNAME can't be used by any other record for convenience when you are....
For example, GoDaddy won't let you set up a wildcard in a CNAME record.
By all DNS providers.
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HI
Does anyone know how its possible to retrieve the DNS records for a domain.
I have been using php and this function: dns_get_record to do this so far but have realised that this command gets cached DNS records and therefore not the up to date information...
Started by Adam on
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If you do need that, find or write a DNS resolver.
Do you really need that? DNS records start making recursive ones), with no real gain.
The simplest solution would be to use Net_DNS PEAR Package.
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I wish to have someone point and resolve their domain to my web server to begin serving their pages.
Is it enough to have the person set only the NS1 and NS2 records to my name server, or must they also set the A Record as well?
Thanks
Started by Dr. DOT on
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However this may also have some administrative overhead zonefile in order to maintain ... .
There are two distinct options:
They can continue hosting DNS for the domain and point the A record and you can configure the A record at will.
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How do I get the DNS records for a zone in python? I'm looking for data similar to the output of dig .
Started by Dave Forgac on
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Try the dnspython library:
http://www.dnspython.org/ You can see some examples here:
http://www.dnspython.org/examples.html Your other option is pydns but the last release is as of 2008 so dnspython is probably a better bet (I only mention this in case... .
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