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Add CAA DNS record to your domains

  • Post author:Editorial Staff
  • Post published:February 14, 2020
  • Post category:Server/Internet
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CAA is an IETF standard that controls which certificate authorities (CAs) can issue certificates for your domain. Certificate authorities (CAs) will check first the CAA record for the domain. If the record does not matches the specific values for that…

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How to flush the DNS cache

  • Post author:Editorial Staff
  • Post published:June 7, 2017
  • Post category:Internet
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After you change the nameservers for your site, you will want to clear the DNS cache. Notice that clearing the Windows OS/Chrome cache after you've changed the nameservers for your site, doesn't guarantee that your site will load from the…

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Add a DMARC record to your domain in cPanel

  • Post author:Editorial Staff
  • Post published:May 26, 2017
  • Post category:cPanel
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What is DMARC? According to dmarc.org : DMARC, which stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance”, is an email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol. It builds on the widely deployed SPF and DKIM protocols, adding linkage to the author…

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What you can do with the cPanel Track DNS tools

  • Post author:Editorial Staff
  • Post published:May 6, 2017
  • Post category:cPanel
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cPanel Track DNS option consists of two tools: Domain Lookup and Trace Route. Domain lookup will tell you the IP of the domain and more information about the DNS of the domain. To use the cPanel Domain Lookup: We assume you've…

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How to check if a domain is on the server

  • Post author:Editorial Staff
  • Post published:March 20, 2017
  • Post category:WHM
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Do you have a lot of domains and you want to quickly check if a domain exists on the server? Just run the shell command: grep yourdomain /etc/userdomains root@web [~]# grep demo.plothost.com /etc/userdomains demo.plothost.com: plothost root@web [~]# In this case,…

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Partial DNS resolver failure – how to fix

  • Post author:Editorial Staff
  • Post published:March 14, 2017
  • Post category:cPanel
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You came here probably because you are receiving email messages from cPanel with a subject: "[yourhostcom] ⚠ Partial DNS resolver failure".  Such emails look like: Partial DNS resolver issue email This indicates an issue with the DNS resolvers from the…

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