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What Is a DNS Zone File, and How Do You Read One?

What Is a DNS Zone File, and How Do You Read One?

Every DNS dashboard, from your registrar's simple record list to a cloud provider's API, is ultimately a friendly front end for the same thing: a **z

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What Is the Difference Between a DNS Zone and a Domain?

What Is the Difference Between a DNS Zone and a Domain?

People use "domain" and "zone" interchangeably all the time, and for a single small website that is mostly harmless: you own example.com, your DNS

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What Is a DNS Zone Transfer (AXFR vs IXFR)?

What Is a DNS Zone Transfer (AXFR vs IXFR)?

Every domain should be served by at least two authoritative nameservers, ideally on different networks, so that one failure does not take your site a

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What Is the Difference Between Authoritative and Recursive DNS Servers?

What Is the Difference Between Authoritative and Recursive DNS Servers?

When someone says "the DNS server," they could mean two completely different machines doing two completely different jobs. One kind of server holds t

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What Are Root Name Servers, and How Many Are There?

What Are Root Name Servers, and How Many Are There?

Every DNS lookup that isn't already cached starts in the same place: the root. Before a resolver can find the servers for example.com, it needs to

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What Are TLD Name Servers, and What Role Do They Play?

What Are TLD Name Servers, and What Role Do They Play?

When you change your domain's nameservers at your registrar, nothing visible happens on your DNS host, and nothing changes on your website. Yet withi

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