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dns nameservers purchased domain name VPS [duplicate]

I have a purchased a domain name from a registrar. I am running a VPS. Ubuntu 12.04. Setting up LAMP was no problem. But I can only access the VPS via the IP at the moment since I have no active DNS ...
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what does “@” mean in bind zone file?

usually after $TTL and $ORIGIN there is a line starting with @ and IN zone name then email address of admin, what does @ mean here and in the next entries?
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meaning of this ps aux output

I wanted to be sure if I am running named. So did following: ps aux | grep named root 6613 0.0 0.0 13588 920 pts/2 S+ 23:12 0:00 grep --color=auto named what this output ...
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dump cache of bind dns

when I do rndc dumpdb then this file has no new cache dumped (18.04 was yesterday, I don't know how I did this dump) and looks like: > ; ; Start view _default ; ; ; Cache dump of view '_default' ...
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Unable to update because of bind issue on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

How can I completly uninstall Bind 9 on Ubuntu. Its causing issues with keeping the server up to date as shown. **root@cp11:~# apt-get upgrade** Reading package lists... Done Building ...
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Bindgraph is creating blank graphs

.... on my 11.04 VPS with a basic Ubuntu installation. Another server (physical) with 12.04 does not display this issue. The software versions of bind9 & rrdtool are slightly different. Both ...
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Multiple domains names being appended for each DNS query

I found an odd problem with a Ubuntu 12.04 server. It seems that multiple domains are being appended to each DNS query, resulting in our bind server bind being flooded. For example, we have the ...
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Why won't bind9 start with Samba 4 AD DC? [closed]

I followed this guide to install Samba 4 as an Active Directory Domain Controller and got stuck on starting bind9. Here are some important configuration files and logs. tail /var/log/syslog: Mar 2 ...
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Weird BIND9 Behavior

This problem has been bothering me for 2 days and hope you guys can give me some advice. I try to set up outlook.com as my mail service. And of course it require me to update my MX record to point to ...
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Bind9 - openssl problem

when I try to start bind9; simply fail because of chroot & openssl /etc/init.d/bind9 start log messages; Feb 17 08:26:27 ISTVS2024 named[2440]: initializing DST: openssl failure Feb 17 ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 and bind9 not responding to queries

I'm trying to set up an authoritative DNS server with bind9 (9.8.1-P1) on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04) and I am encountering some problems. External problem When trying to check ...
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How do I prevent directories mounted with 'bind' from appearing on 'Devices' on nautilus?

I have these lines in the fstab # binds /media/DataNtfs/Music /home/can/Music none rw,bind /media/DataNtfs/Pictures /home/can/Pictures none ...
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DNS A records Ubuntu server

This may sounds very easy to do but I'm a little confused in the process. I've registered a domain e.g. example.com and want to point it to my server with IP e.g. 111.111.111.111 I've made ...
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How can I use bind9 to use my own custom domain in my LAN?

I'm new to DNS and making a DNS server. I've read through the bind9 server how to (at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIND9ServerHowto) and several tutorials online on setting up a bind9 server in ...
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RNDC Sync Failed - could not set file modification time of /etc/bind/slave

I have setup transfer to IPs & master/slave directories/files Added /etc/bind/rndc.key file with the same pass-phrase on both master/slave Permission items inside /etc/bind/slave are -rw-r--r-- ...
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binding back/forward to mouse buttons

I have a basic logitech mouse with 5 buttons: left, right, wheel left, wheel, wheel right. I used to use wheel left and right for going back and forward in my browser or navigator. Now this doesn't ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Bind DLZ

When compiling Bind with DLZ support it does not want to compile bind9/bind9-9.8.1.dfsg.P1/debian/rules configure: configure-stamp configure-stamp: dh_testdir ./configure ...
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how to setup my isp provided static ip

I purchased a static IP address from my ISP I am running ubuntu server 12.04 x64 with webmin installed I want to point a purchased domain name (and also a free .tk domain) at my server. Every time ...
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Unable to access my domain (BIND9 issue)

I successfully run BIND9 for using domain name over the local network (BIND9 installed in 192.168.0.74) but when I added WAN for adding the Internet to all the network, all the PCs became unable to ...
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Average Number of Domains Supported by BIND DNS Server

How many DNS domains does BIND DNS Server support on Ubuntu 12.04 Server? Using an Amazon EC2 micro instance.
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Package version updates policy

Not sure if here it's the right place to ask, if not - please point me to the right direction. Let's say there's a package, for the sake of real-world example - bind9. In Precise and in Quantal it's ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 + Eclipse 64 bits key binding error

The text is quite extense so, this is just a part of it: !SESSION 2012-11-23 10:15:52.442 ----------------------------------------------- eclipse.buildId=I20120608-1200 java.version=1.7.0_09 ...
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dig @server doesn't work

I have Ubuntu 12.04 with BIND9, working just as a caching server (forwarding to 8.8.8.8). When I use, for example, dig +norecurse @l.root-servers.net www.uniroma1.it, I obtain the following output: ...
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BIND9 server not responding to external queries

I have set up a BIND server on my dedicated box which I want to host a nameserver for my domain on. When I use dig @202.169.196.59 nzserver.co.nz locally on the server I get the following response... ...
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Having problems getting Samba4 and Bind9 working together because of apparmor

So I've been following the Samba4 HOWTO, which has gone reasonably well. The issue I'm having is I can't get BIND9 to restart when the samba configuration is included in /etc/bind/named.conf.local: ...
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Unable to install bind9 on ubuntu 12.04

I cant install the bind server I was trying to do clean rap cache and update. This is what I get after running the apt-get install bind8 / apt-get install -f bind9 : Reading package lists... Done ...
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Configuring a DNS Server like OpenDNS [closed]

I want to configure a bind server that responds with a zone file even if this zone file was not created earlier. Basically I need a parking DNS server that every responds to every domain name (just ...
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How to hide bind mounts in nautilus?

Summary: How do I remove folders mounted via bind or bindfs in /etc/fstab from appearing as devices in nautilus left column, the "places" view? detailed: Hello, I mount various directories from my ...
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fstab missing on Ubuntu 12.04.1

I just installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 and there is no /etc/fstab This must be new in 12.04.1 because I was running 12.04 months ago and it was there. I didn't do an upgrade I did a clean install. Where has ...
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Bind9 problems with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I am having a problem with installing bind9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have installed a Plesk 11 server but DNS service is not running. root@cp11:~# apt-get install bind Reading package lists... Done ...
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Trash folder in the wrong location with bound partitions

My NTFS partition is mounted as follows: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/dos ntfs permissions,locale=en_US.utf8,uid=1000,umask=0 0 0 I bound several folders to my home as follows: /mnt/dos/Books /home/me/Books none ...
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Backing up bind mounted folders

My layout is as follows. LVM Setup: /dev/VG/Documents, /dev/VG/Music, /dev/VG/Pictures, /dev/VG/Music, /dev/VG/Documents, etc.... Each of the LVMs is bind mounted to the corresponding folder name in ...
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Bind typed phrase to F key

I am new to ubuntu and seeing if I can replicate the functionality of AutoHotKey (from windows). I have a series of phrases that I regularly type in various applications. I would like to be able to ...
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Cannot bind Transmission (or any other app) to local IP when connected to VPN

I want all my applications to use VPN connection except for Transmission, which I want to use my eth0 interface. But when I set "bind-address-ipv4":"192.168.250.2" in the settings.jason , Transmission ...
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invalid command name “bind” - When Installing

I want to install Red Suite 4 (search on Google shows this problem is with installing other apps too) on my 64bit machine. I have installed the prerequisite packages: linux32 and ia32-libs (for ...
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Mapping Ctrl-X to Ctrl-A without Xserver on Ubuntu 12.04

Inspired by this article: http://m.linuxjournal.com/content/swap-your-laptop-ipad-linode?page=0,3 I have tried to emulate the set up of an ipad connecting to a ubuntu box hosted by linode. ...
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Why doesn't “su bind” work?

When you do apt-get install bind9, there gets a user bind created. I'm having some trouble with my bind installation. See How can I add file create read write and delete for a specific ...
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How to allow bind in app armor?

Question: I did setup bind9 as described here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12149576#post12149576 Now I have a little problem with apparmor: If I switch it off, it works. If apparmor ...
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How can I add file create read write and delete for a specific user?

Question: I need to give file create, read, write and delete access to /var/log for user bind only. How can I do that, short of allowing read and write and delete access for everybody ?
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How to Disable External DNS recursion?

I know that to disable recursive queries in BIND, I need add the following lines to the options section of /etc/bind/named.conf.options allow-transfer {“none”;}; allow-recursion {“none”;}; recursion ...
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Cannot ping router with a static IP assigned? [closed]

Alright. I am running Ubuntu LTS 12.04 and am trying to configure a local caching/master DNS server so I am using Bind9. First, here are some things via default DHCP: /etc/network/interfaces cat ...
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Ubuntu bind server stops working every few minutes

We have a bind9 DNS server installed on our network running on an Ubuntu system. Normally it works just fine, but every 20 minutes or so, it will stop working for about 3 minutes. Normally if I "dig ...
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What is the named daemon and why is it running?

I want to know why the named daemon is running, do I need it running for my VPS to work properly ? Can I stop or remove it ?
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DHCP is mangling my PTR records in DNS

I originally posted this in LinuxQuestions http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/dhcp-is-mangling-my-ptr-records-in-dns-4175412344/ without much luck, so I'll try here. DHCP is ...
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xvkbd broken with warnings

I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu and I can't run xvkbd properly. I get these errors: $ xvkbd Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type ...
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Bind DNS caching Active Directory doesn't return all MX records

We two Ubuntu boxes set with bind9 and are in user as primary and secondary DNS servers on the network. The problem I facing is that I have MX records setup on AD DNS and dig only returns the top ...
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How To Mount or Bind A Samba Share (Specified By An IP Address) On A Directory? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Correct way of mounting a Windows share From my Ubuntu computer, I can access a network share in Nautilus using the IP address prefixed with "smb://". For example, ...
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How do I create a psuedo-domain through bind on Ubuntu 12.04?

I've done some prerequisite reading on DNS and BIND via O'Reilly's book. My goal is to have a local DNS server (i.e. seldon.foundation) that resolves local names (i.e. *.foundation) but forwards the ...
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Multiple nic, different subnet

Does multiple nic setup with different subnet in Ubuntu actually require some extra steps to work correctly? I can't seem to bind curl/any other apps to one of the nic and make it uses that nic ...
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How to auto-install runlevel control for existing service/daemon?

Need to install a service/daemon (in this case bind9, a DNS service) runlevel control, aka "rc" control (/etc/rc*.d and such). bind9 came pre-installed on my 11.04 system, but without aforementioned ...

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