Hi, frontend dev here. I registered a domain with Hover, and I just set up an A record to point to my host. My question: is there ever a reason to delete the A records that were automatically set by Hover when I registered the domain? This is what my configuration looks like: Type Host … Read More “Curious: is there ever a reason to delete preset A records?” »

I am searching for relevant information about DNS. I am aware about “google”, “ddg” and other search engines but I would like to get good, curated information from the redditors. What do I search: * History – of DNS. * Basics – What is DNS, how does it work? * Extended – Things like Slave … Read More “Everything about DNS – your help needed” »

I’m trying to set up some way to have clients set their DNS to my webserver so a subdomain of their site will point to my site (a SaaS). I can do it normally but with my host (WPEngine) I have to manually add their domains. Is there a way (or service) to do such … Read More “DNS Config Question” »

This may be a dumb question and is in part related to DNS and IP as well. When typing a domain name in the address bar, it is resolved with an IP address. My googling is not strong enough for me to understand how it resolves subpages. The subpages have to be under the same … Read More “DNS resolution to subpages” »

Does anyone see resolution issues, perhaps from the East Coast for DNS lookups? I am getting some reports from various places. I know its not a lot of information at the moment, I hope to be able to share more information shortly. submitted by /u/rhawk301 [link] [comments] Powered by WPeMatico

We were researching a domain that shows nameservers of ns1.vm which shouldn’t be valid, yet a website comes up (iawptraining.com). securitytrails.com show that there are 491 hosts pointing to this name server: https://securitytrails.com/list/ns/ns1.vm How is this working? .vm isn’t a valid TLD. 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2 return a result for an A record, but Cloudflare does … Read More “Riddle me this: ns1.vm (491 domains point to this name server)” »

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Heya, Switched from Google’s 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 to Cloudflares new 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 DNS. Went from 300mbits down to ~150mbits down. Is this possibly due to me still using Googles IPv6 DNS as well? Everyone is saying Cloudflares is better… submitted by /u/ferwindjacks [link] [comments] Powered by WPeMatico

I currently have 2 websites that can be accessed by: website1.com website2.com Is it possible to create a DNS record that will allow users to access website1.com by navigating to website2.com/website1 without a redirect and making it look like the user is on website2.com’s website? I tried creating a CNAME record: Host: website2.com/website1 Value: website.com … Read More “Is it possible to create a DNS entry that will have a page point to another instance?” »

I have a domain name registered with Namesilo and I would like to point it towards my home address where I am hosting my web server. Unfortunately, this public address is not static. I thought to register with a dynamic DNS provider, and use it to map it with my public IP address. That way, … Read More “Domain name to public IP address with dynamic DNS” »