Domains & DNS
Registrars, DNS records, propagation, DNSSEC and e-mail authentication records.
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- SPF, DKIM, DMARC... All Set, And ICloud Mail STILL Says Spam
- SPF, DKIM, DMARC... All Set, And Gmail STILL Says Spam
- The Clients .io Domain Vanished From The Internet After Turning On DNSSEC. Did I Break It?
- Pointing My Domain At A CDN: Www Is Fine, Apex Loads The Old Site
- THE APEX DOMAIN MYSTERY: WITHOUT WWW IT REDIRECTS TO AN AD PAGE
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts panic mode. our shops new .com is our main sales channel and since moving to a new host nobody can reach it. On my friend's computer it shows NXDOMAIN, on my phone using mobile data it sometimes loads. i flushed DNS on…
im literally losing my mind here genuine question from someone who's been doing websites for a while but never thought hard about DNS. For an onilne shop, is running my own nameservers actually worth it? i hear arguments about uptime, speed, control and lock…
so i was messing around with some dnssec records on my production domain trying to haredn teh security a bit, and suddenly my site just... vanished from the web. it is literally returning an NXDOMAIN or a validation error depending on which resolver i check.…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts A few observations. say u have a domain that sends mail from two places: a hosted mailbox service and a web app using a transactional email API. deliverability is poor. Theres…
soooo i just updated my a records for my gaming site and now everything is just crashing. i keep getting this weird error on my browser and im literally panicking cuz im supposed to go live tonight!! i tried flushing my dns and even restarted the router but…
guys pls help moved my site to a website builder this weekend. www.mydomain loads perfectly. but type teh domain without www and it shows a parked page. the host's docs say to add a CNAME for the root domain, but a budget registrar refuses and says a CNAME…
ok weird one panic mode. the client's .io domain is our main sales channel and since renewing it a day late nobody can reach it. On my phone on Wi Fi it shows NXDOMAIN, on my phone using mobile data it sometimes loads. I flushed DNS on my computer, nothing…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts fun problem! i'm deploying a site to a hosting platform that tells me to cretae a CNAME pointing to something like myproject.platform.example, that works fine for www, but my DNS provider refuses to create a CNAME on the…
hmmmm ok say youre migrating a site and u update teh A record, but half ur users keep hitting the old box for hours. the record at the provider is definately correct. ive duoble checked teh record in the providers…
guys pls help hi! I just pointed my domain at a new host. on my phone over mobile data the site loads fine. on my laptop: I have a client demo in an hour and I cant even open my own site on teh machine Im presenting from. is the domain broken or is it just…
hmmmm ok simple goal: exmaple.com and www.example.com should both show my site on a CDN 😤 reality: teh apex redirects to an ad page. i tried adding the CNAME at the root anyway, a free DNS provider threw an error. i tried a URL forward but that seems to…
Genuine question from someone whos been doing websites for a while but never thought hard about DNS. For a side project, is using the hosts nameservers actually worth it? 😅 i hear argmuents about uptime, speed, control and lock in, but i cant tell which…
yesterday i finsihed turning on DNSSEC for our shops new .com. felt proud of myself. this mroning i opened the site and got this: it says teh servers IP address could not be found, DNS PROBE FINISHED NXDOMAIN. same thing on the office network. the registrar…
Not my first domain, but this one has me stumped 🔥 After switching nameservers, the clients .io domain stopepd resolving completely. the zone at my DNS porvider has the A record, the www recrod, everything. online checkers from different locations disagree…
hmmmm ok I've followed three different guides and I'm more confused than before. Messages from the newsletter tool keep getting flagged by Gmail. Our DNS panel has a TXT record for SPF, another one someone added later, plus a DMARC record copied from a blog…
ok so im setting up DNS for a side project and keep going back and forth on running my own nameservers lol some ppl say its the obvious best practice, others say it adds complexity for no real gain. ive had one bad experience in the past where a host held my…
so annoyed rn moved my site to a website builder this weekend, www.mydomain loads perfectly... but type the domain without www and it redirects to an ad page. The hosts docs say to add a CNAME for the root domain, but my hosts zone editor refuses and says a…
genuine question from someone whos been doing websites for a while but never thought hard about DNS 😂 for a small business site, is using teh hosts nameesrvers actually worth it? 🤷 i hear arguments about uptime, speed, control and lock in, but i cant tell…
hmmmm ok genuine question from someone whos been doing websites for a while but never thought hard about DNS. for an online shop, is splitting registrar and DNS provider actually worth it?? i hear arguments about uptime, speed, control and lock in, but i…
Ive followed three different guides and Im more confused than before. Messages from password reset emails keep getting flagged by Outlook.com. our DNS panel has a TXT record for SPF, another one someone added later, plus a DMARC record copied from a blog…
ok weird one not my first domain, but this one has me stumped. After turning on DNSSEC, teh client's .io domain stopped reoslving completely. the zone at my DNS provider has the A record, teh www record, everything. online checkers from different locations…
hmmmm ok yesterday i finished turning on DNSSEC for teh clients .io domain. felt proud of myslef. this morning i opened teh site and got this: It says the sevrers IP address could not be found, DNS PROBE FINISHED NXDOMAIN. Same thing on every device at home…
ok weird one we just realized that my new business mailbox has been landing in spam for who knows how long. A customer on iCloud Mail mentioned it casually and my stomach dropped. i went into our DNS and there is an SPF record, and i think DKIM was set up…
we just realized that invoice emails from teh shop has been landing in spam for who knows how long. A customer on Outlook.com mentioned it casually and my stomach dropped. I went into our DNS and there is an SPF record, and I think DKIM was set up when we…
guys pls help my analytics showed a strange drop and when I checked, the bare domain throws a certificate warning. the www version is fine. I'm using the default DNS editor and pointing teh site at a git based pages host. I think there's still an old A…
