Questions tagged [domain-name]
A domain name is a string that defines a realm of authority on the Internet, generally representing an Internet Protocol resource.
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How do I find what company an email domain is associated to?
Given an email like this: [email protected] how can I identify that this email was sent from a real company and also which company sent this email?
One thing that I am looking for is a list of email ...
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What is the maximum length of a domain name?
According to domain name specifications RFC 1035:
2.3.4. Size limits
names 255 octets or less
According to the SMTP RFC 5321:
4.5.3.1.2. Domain
The maximum total length of a domain name ...
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Xfinity router WiFi DNS not refreshed?
I setup a new domain name. It's active and working from:
Mobile Network
Wired ethernet connection
Other WiFi (not mine)
using a VPN
It is NOT working from:
Xfinity WiFi without a VPN
My Xfinity ...
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Website loading difficulties after TLD change from .com to .promo
We recently changed the URL of our website from eyevertising.com to bold.promo, and we now hear from a few random customers that they can't access the new website!
The only thing we really did, was ...
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Disable Windows DNS search domain / set to `.`
I use a resolver that responds with records on bare TLDs aka dotless domains - will add some info on why below if you're curious, but it's not related to the issue.
On Linux, it's possible to do so by ...
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Redirect domain name to ip with port number
I need to redirect a domain name or a subdomain to an ip with port that is the 80 port is already used and assigned to another domain or subdomain name i want to run another server in the same ...
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Relay access denied when forwarding email via domain registrar
UPDATE: It turns out that it took several hours for my changes to take effect. So everything's fine now. But I hope this question and answer will be useful for someone.
I have a domain name which I've ...
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Server re-hosted, needs to update new IP address in DNS
Our Centos7 server was relocated to a new building and the IP address changed. Now how do I configure the server so all traffic gets routed to the new IP address?The domain name is still the same. The ...
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home.arpa vs subdomain.home.arpa domain name in my home network
I am planning to give a domain name to a computer on my home network. From my understanding, home.arpa has been officially reserved since 2018 for this use case (RFC 8375). Does this mean that I can ...
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DNS Forwarding or Nameservers
I have a couple of domains registered with one company and then websites hosted with another. One of the domains has nameservers pointing at the web host, the other has DNS forwarding to the same web ...
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"resolvectl dns" gives empty output
I do on my VPS with Ubuntu 22 server (new, clean setup):
root@vm905709:~# resolvectl dns ens3
Link 2 (ens3):
root@vm905709:~#
(BTW, I did it on the same VPS with Debian and it was the same.)
And ...
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How to properly register subdomains
tl;dr: What's the proper way to make a domain point to an IP and a subdomain point to another? Any additional records required besides two A records?
I'm working on an e-commerce that used to live in ...
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Why is DNStwist showing a domain available but online check shows taken?
For example, when using the software DNStwist to enumerate domain name "dege.com", it shows "degee.com" available, but when using several web domain availability sites, those sites ...
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Is it against spec to set a nameserver at the registrar to a CNAME alias?
I came up against an issue where some DNS providers were not getting data from our authoritative DNS server. Using a site like dnschecker.org, I was seeing something like 30% of the nodes reporting ...
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Migrating a hosted Web-Server to a home-based sever (inlcuding Domain Name and SSL)
Up to now I was using a hosted server with a static IP address, and own SSL certificate and an own domain.
My server hosting company has provided me with an interface, in which I entered some entries ...
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