Short answer Step 1: Add a new file CNAME to your GitHub Pages repository containing only one line: your top-level domain name. E.g.: example.com Step 2: [Optional] but highly recommended 2.1: Remove all other top-level records (prefixed with @) of type A from your DNS configuration. 2.2: Remove a CNAME record for the second-level domain … Read more
So, you need to use the concept of port publishing, so that a port from your container is accessible via a port from your host. Using this, you can can setup a simple proxy_pass from an Nginx that will redirect users.mycompany.com to myhost:1337 (assuming that you published your port to 1337) So, if you want … Read more
DNS caching occurs at multiple levels: Application asks local system, which asks locally configured resolving DNS server, which asks authoritative DNS servers. Caching by Application varies. I’ve found for Firefox that quitting and restarting works. The relevant settings in about:config are network.dnsCacheEntries and network.dnsCacheExpiration, which can be set to 0 in order to disable caching. … Read more
The loopback adapter is always up. ifconfig lo0 alias 172.16.123.1 will add an alias IP 172.16.123.1 to the loopback adapter ifconfig lo0 -alias 172.16.123.1 will remove it
server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server; server_name “”; return 444; } You need to specify default_server parameter so that all non available server requests goes to this server block which throws 444 error. 444 : CONNECTION CLOSED WITHOUT RESPONSE ref: https://httpstatuses.com/444
The mechanisms you describe (A and CNAME records vs. 301 redirects) are part of two different protocols (DNS and HTTP). A and CNAME records have nothing to do with which site your HTTP server serves for different requests. Let’s look at two different DNS configurations: Configuration 1 (CNAME record) Host | Type | Data —————–+——-+————- … Read more
In the dnsmasq.conf file, add the line address=/.domain.tld/192.168.0.1 But use the IP you actually want as that end bit
I’m not sure of exact directions for NameCheap but the general way to redirect a subdomain to the Heroku app would be to add a CNAME record to the subdomain. To redirect the root domain you will need to set a CNAME like functionality at the zone apex. Subdomain blog.cheese.com would have a CNAME record … Read more
As far as I know, a forced update like this is not directly possible. You might be able to reduce the DNS downtime by reducing the TTL (Time-To-Live) value of the entries before changing them, if your name server service provider allows that. Here’s a guide for less painful DNS changes. A fair warning, though … Read more