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5d3ICANN publishes its Woke Manifesto. Here’s my hot take
ICANN s antics rarely surprise me after close to a quarter-century of coverage, but today it s published what I can only describe as its Woke Manifesto and while reading through it this afternoon I pretty much peeled my...
5d3Parking a URL within the same server
I originally posted this on r/cpanel but I haven’t gotten anything. I’m hoping this sub can help since this is potentially a DNS issue. I have a WHM/cPanel server (myserver.com) that hosts the website and DNS for...
6d3When to Edit DNS Records?
Hello everyone, apologies but I am new to domain management. Recently, a member of our team disconnected our website domain from the platform that hosted the site. I went to reconnect the domain but the IP addresses and...
6d3cloudflare or opendns family?
cloudflare or opendns family? which one is better? submitted by /u/O2M0 [link] [comments]
6d4DKIM/ SPF/ DMAC help
Hi all, I'd value any thoughts on what needs fixing - I don't think it's much at my end. But perhaps...we have a Office 365 distribution list. One particular external sender has issues with Yahoo recipients...
7d5PowerDNS Autosecondary Queries Itself Instead Of Primary
I have an autoprimary/autosecondary pair configured. AXFRs function properly, but automatic provisioning is failing. On the secondary, I ran pdnsutil add-autoprimary ip.address.of.primary ns2.domain.com accountname...
7d3Alibaba, Name.com among new RDRS opt-ins
Eleven registrars representing millions of domain names signed up to support ICANN s Registration Data Request Service last month. One registrar dropped out. One of Chinese tech giant Alibaba s registrars was among the...
7d3.my domains to be sold globally next month
The .my namespace is to be opened up to international registrants next month under a deal between the Malaysian registry and Caymans-based Internet Naming Co, according to INCO s CEO. Shayan Rostam said that MYNIC will...
7d4Is there anyway to block an mdm using a dns?
If not is there anyway to stop information from going to the main server submitted by /u/Historical-Fruit7833 [link] [comments]
7d5How Are PTR Records Actually Used in Email Deliverability?
I've heard conflicting ideas; that a simultaneous A record and PTR record is checked to see if there's a match; that it is actually the HELO that is compared to the PTR record; that the receiving server simply checks...
7d3Help With PTR Record
I'm on a shared hosting plan. Sharing an IP / servername 1.2.3.4 / hosting.examplehost.net - My domain is example.com There is a PTR record, that I cannot change, that has a value of hosting.examplehost.net and...
8d4DNS Service to create a network-wide ad and domain...
I want to build a solution that uses powerDNS/Blocky (or any other DNS) to create a network-wide ad and domain blocking service for multiple customers (tenants). Here's the breakdown: Multi-tenancy: I need to...
8d4URGENT About to yank my hair out over GoDaddy domain...
I've never experienced this and need urgent help as GD and SS aren't helping me at all. I connected a GoDaddy domain (which was previously connected to a Wordpress site) to a Squarespace site last Friday. But any DNS...
8d5DNS requests to .x69 and .xbf domain
Hello, Checking my PiHole today I noticed a couple of strange DNS requests going to the following domains:...
8d5are DNS resolvers running on the ISP server?
Hello, I read a bit about both and am unsure where DNS resolvers usually are implemented. Does anyone know with validated source? submitted by /u/DramaticEducator6276 [link] [comments]
9d4Getting TAI time on a Debian machine
It should work by default but, apparently, on some operating systems like Debian, it does not: to get the TAI time, you need a small configuration change. I document it here for myself or for people which will use a...
9d6The times, they change
I mentioned the other day how sad it is that so many links end in 404 after a short while, and I got a reply that it might be 410. Actually, it’s also often a 301. Be that as it may, and to distance myself as much as...
9d3Notes to self on directing a gpg-agent into a podman...
Directing an SSH agent socket (UNIX domain socket) into a podman container, is as easy as 1-2-mount, so I erroneously assumed that doing similarly for GPG would be as easy. It wasn’t, at least for me. I rose at 06:00...
9d7The Swiss can register .swiss domains from next week
The Swiss government is relaxing the registration rules for its .swiss gTLD so that regular people will be able to register names there from next week. Previously available only to registered legal entities in...
9d5.ai up to 425,000 domains
The .ai registry has provided its latest, sporadic update to its registration numbers, showing that Anguilla s ccTLD continues to be wildly popular compared to the country s size. It s grown from 353,928 domains on...
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