I recently moved my website to a shared hosting solution at asmallorange.com, but I had to set my domain to use their provided nameservers in order for the site to properly resolve. I was determined to keep control of the domain's DNS but I could find no way to make my top level domain resolve to the shared location which was in the for...
I want to find out all the subdomains of a given domain. I found a hint which tells me to dig the authoritative Nameserver with the following option: dig @ns1.foo.bar some_domain.com axfr But this never works. Has anyone a better idea/approach ...
I've noticed that several service providers are operating DNS services for their clients' domains with NS names set for the zone and returned by the authoritative name server (in authority section / NS & SOA records) that don't match the NS names returned by the upstream server (e.g. TLD servers) and which were used for the lookup. Exam...
Hello, I am building a VPN application where I need to set DNS server programmatically. I am changing NameServer parameter in the registry (in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces) to prepend a name server to the list of existing entries. Once I do this, if I try to look up a host name using ns...
My nameserver isn't working properly, and I can't figure out why. When I do a 'whois cfconsulting.ca', it shows the correct nameservers, with ns1.signupsystems.com being the primary. If you do a "dig @ns1.signupsystems.com cfconsulting.ca" you get the right IP. But if you just do an 'nslookup cfconsulting.ca' it fails. I'm baffled. ...
When looking at SOA (Service Oriented Architectures) the main problems seems to be distributing a services load across multiple hosts and then managing these hosts (taking hosts off line or adding new hosts) When one service talks to another it should not need to know any host information (at the application level). Rather the SOA Envir...