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Computer cannot resolve Firebase domain

I am currently debugging a chrome extension that I wrote, which uses Google Firebase for its authentication and its realtime database. Now, the extension is already distributed to a number of people, ...
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Can I look up DNS A records through ldap?

I am trying to gather our domain controllers host A records remotely. I am able to use ldapsearch to gather lots of info about the schema, computers, and users. But I cant seem to find where the A ...
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Join Computer to Domain in Windows

I'm a little confused, I've been playing around with a home lab, and I am looking to add a laptop to the domain that I have created for test purposes. I have been reading some articles, and some of ...
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Why does it take couple of seconds for DNS resolver to find .local domain specified in etc/hosts

(Running Windows 7) This is one of the entries I have in my Windows' etc/hosts file 127.0.0.1 localhost mysite.mike mysite.local First I noticed that my browser takes always 2.01-2.04s (so 2 seconds)...
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Error when joining domain with Windows Server 2012 r2

In our office we have two servers and dozen workstations. Our main server has AD and it is DC (Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials). All of our workstations are connected to domain. Then we have ...
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New to Active Domain/Windows DNS, using pfSense resolver for external DNS and routing?

I have some questions about setting up Active Domain with pfSense. I'm pretty new to this and I haven't found any posts specifically dealing with these questions, and I've been scouring for hours. ...
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Windows DNS and Domain Controller - difference between physical and remote log-on

Windows Domain environment. Windows XP machine. I tried logging on to a domain-joined computer at the computer itself and I got an error saying it could not find domain controller. I then jumped on ...
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connecting to a domain controller / when logging into computer

When I am login into my computer, I can see that it is joined to a domain -> company.local So I am thinking well, company.local will be resolvable by an internal DNS to a domain controller's IP, so ...
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dns domains, active directory domains and domain controller

I know these are big topics but i am just several questions i wish to clarify. q1) are dns internet domains and active directory domains referring to the same thing or are related ? Reason for ...
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DNS server failure issue. Is it forward zone?

The problem is the following: I am using Windows 2012 server as my DNS server. I have a default gateway ( 192.168.1.1 ) and the DNS server set up (on 192.168.1.200 ). My default gateway is also my ...
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How to set DNS entry with no domain in local network?

I would like to refer local network computers with short DNS names, without full multilevel path. What is required for it? Probably I need to know terminology or something. I wish to configure both ...
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Domain name lookup as another domain name

In Windows (8.1) hosts file contains mappings of IP addresses to host names. For example: 127.0.0.1 example.domain.net What I want to achieve is to map a domain name to another domain name ...
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How to run a dns server on a home network?

I have a typical home network. Cable modem connects to router, everything else connects to that router. I have manually assigned IP addresses to MAC addresses of the various devices that connect to ...
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Can't ping devices by IP address for devices allocated IPs by DHCP

I have a home network with a Trendnet wireless router and a Windows Domain. The Domain Controller/DNS server is a Windows 2000 Server and is configured to forward queries to DNS servers provided by ...
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