Good day, Google recently transfered all my domain names to Squarespace. And now I’m having troubles with redirecting them. I suspect it’s something to do with A and CNAME records, but don’t have enough knowledge to figure this out on my own. When Google was taking care of things, it was fairly easy to redirect … Read More “Google to Squarespace Domain Transfer DNS Records” »

Hi! I don’t get an error that’d really help me here. Found out the emails of one of my domains aren’t working, no MX entries. When I want to add them, it gives me an error “use the mail tab”, okay. So, I want to use the mail tab and go with “use [hoster] mailserver” … Read More “Can’t add MX entry or use my hoster’s mailservers” »

Im trying to connect my root domain to the website I hosted on Netlify. Netlify Support says that in order to save the google workspace emails I have to transfer my existing DNS to Netlify DNS. But Im not so sure about exactly what to transfer. Obviously the MX and CNAME records. But what about … Read More “Transferring Google DNS to Netlify” »

Could someone explain the difference between Unbound+blocklists and the rest of the ad blockers like technitium, pihole and unbound? I have unbound set up on OPNsense and I’m able to use the blocklists I choose, and there are some cool statistics, so I don’t see a benefit of the others here., all of which I’ve … Read More “How to understand Unbound’s description, “Unbound is a validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver”” »

Hey all I manage an on prem domain where all dns is handled by the two domain controllers- with forwarders set up. It all works fine. I have been asked to update another company network which is in a workgroup, they have a mix of win 7, win 8, win 10 machines and no dns … Read More “Updating a workgroup, DNS” »

I have a domain example.com and I have multiple subdomains: prod.example.com nonprod.example.com qa.nonprod.example.com dev.nonprod.example.com stage.nonprod.example.com Each domain/subdomain has it’s own set of nameservers and has DNSSEC enabled. So for example dev.nonprod.example.com has it’s DS Keys registered to nonprod.example.com I want to disable DNSSEC so that I can safely transfer example.com to a new registrar. What’s … Read More “Multiple layers of DNSSEC how do i disable it?” »

So, I’ve got a weird one. I have an ASUS RT-AX88U, stock firmware. I had setup quad9 and I am using DoT through my WAN settings. I had performed a few checks after configuring it and verified it was all up and running. I haven’t touched DNS, or anything really, since then. I will mention … Read More “Quad9 reverts to local ISP DNS” »

Hi everyone, I am trying to write up a small python tool that checks the SPF, MX and DKIM records of a domain and deduce whether they have a certain email provider setup or not like Google or MSFT. Although I am checking the DKIM requirements like MX Toolbox, but I would also like to … Read More “Are SPF and MX records enough to deduce provider?” »

Right so I’m not a DNS guy, and looking help from the gurus here. I have a server on-premises in charge of domain example.com, and then create cloud.example.com and delegate it to Route53 in split view. People in charge of the dns server say they cannot forward the requests for cloud.example.com to Route53 because the … Read More “DNS forwarding after delegating subdomain” »

Just to begin, all of these machines i am using run in VM’s only and only operate over a VLAN with no internet acces at all and im wanting to do this for educational purposes only. I understand how DNS works but i want to learn all about it as im a noob at it, … Read More “How do i set these up to work properly?” »