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How do I create CNAME records in AWS if the domain is hosted elsewhere?

I have a domain that is hosted from a provider other than AWS. I cannot input the CNAME entries that I need there because I'm using custom nameservers: ns-743.awsdns-28.net ns-1077.awsdns-06.org ns-...
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AWS Elastic beanstalk cname with and without www

So, I've got a website running in Elastic beanstalk on AWS and I have a custom domain name which points to it, which is managed in Route 53. When I set up the custom domain initially, I just looked ...
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How to redirect an old subdomain with Route53

I've redirected an old subdomain blog.mysite.com to my homepage mysite.com with a CNAME record in Route53, but.... it doesn't work. I get no server response at all. Is there something I'm doing wrong? ...
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Best way to redirect root domain ("apex domain") to another location

This question is a continuation of Using Route53 to point apex/root domain to Heroku application Right now I have my domain abc.com registered with Route53. I am using a ddns service to point it to a ...
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A CNAME pointing to 2 different A Records set up with Primary/Secondary Failover Routing?

Considering records like: host.example.com as a CNAME to: host01.example.com and host02.example.com (on two separate records). I want to set up those A records to be with a Failover routing policy. ...
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AWS Amplify SSL configuration pending

I am setting up AWS Amplify to build, deploy and host one of my application written in Angular. Everything is working with Amplify domain. Now I am trying to configure a custom domain to Amplify, but ...
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Sub domain with digitalocean + Amazon Route + Hostgator

I have two domains, www.domain1.com and www.domain2.net. www.domain1.com is hosted by digitalocean www.domain2.net is hosted by hostgator shared plan. (website hosting) The zone file of www.domain1....
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How to get subdomain in Route 53 to resolve to Internet-facing Elastic Load Balancer?

I own a domain, call it doggos.lol that uses Route 53 for DNS. I want to create a subdomain elb.doggos.lol that resolves to the public DNS of an ELB. I created a CNAME to route elb.doggos.lol to an ...
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Registrar CNAME to route53 hosted zone to ephemeral ELBs

I have a domain "blabla.com" with some registrar. I have a number of ELBs to serve the traffic but their domain names change constantly. I would like to route the blabla.com traffic to the ELBs from ...
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Routing to a different AWS region using Route 53

I have a domain : example.com hosted in AWS using Route 53 It has the following Record set A: Alias AAAA: Alias MX: [..] NS: [..] SOA [..] CNAME: *.example.com The Alias is pointed to an elastic ...
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Propagate new DNS records faster

Does setting the refresh time in an SOA record make newly created DNS records "propagate" faster? (I understand the term propagate is technically inaccurate) I'm making many new DNS records (A ...
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Problems migrating GoDaddy record sets to AWS Route 53

I've migrated a domain name from GoDaddy to AWS's Route 53. The problem I'm having is that emails are not being delivered to the email exchange. Everything else seems to be working just fine. I've ...
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Pointing domain to AWS Classic ELB DNS Name without using Amazon route 53

I have a domain example.com. I want to point this domain to my AWS internet-facing classic ELB public DNS (my-elb-123456789.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com) without using Amazon Route 53. How should i ...
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How do I setup a "subdomain empty" DNS CNAME?

I am hosting a webserver with about 200 domains. The DNS records of those domains are a simple CNAME record of the form: *.domain1.com. CNAME myhostingserver.mydomain.com. *.domain2.com. CNAME ...
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Sender address rejected: Domain not found - after Route 53 (Amazon AWS) changes

We had been getting these messages when customers try sending us emails. This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY. YOU DO NOT NEED ...
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Best way to point client's domain to my server

I am creating a landing page creation and hosting service. My clients will be able to link their domain to their account. I am using AWS and Route 53. I'm considering two potential systems: Having ...
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CNAME in Route 53 - Redirect www to non-www not working

I'm hosting web application on AWS with Nginx 1.6.3 and django 1.7.6 I'd like to redirect www.mydomain.com to mydomain.com through Route 53 In other words, showing mydomain.com/foo on address bar ...
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How to set up a CNAME DNS record that will be corresponding to an external website (using Amazon AWS) [closed]

I created an instance of Ubuntu on EC2 and added the DNSs from goddady. I have a page which I want to create an "Alias CNAME" to it. So when entering dashboard.example.com - instead of having this ...
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Why use CNAME in Route 53+S3 combination

I have been going through Amazon's docs on using Route 53 in conjunction with S3 to serve static websites. The strategy they show is to do: example.com A -> alias to s3-website-eu-west-1....
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Can I point my zone apex (example.com versus www.example.com) at my website hosted on an another cloud platform (not Amazon)?

I'm stuck with a problem I guess many of you suffered before and I'm trying to solve it my way without moving from Amazon Route 53 DNS services to another DNS provider. I host two applications in two ...
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Server not available at new Route53 CNAME

I have a static website (www.example.com) hosted through AWS S3 and Route53. The customer registered their DNS through GoDaddy; www.example.com traffic works great. On that static website is a "...
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Performance penalty when using CNAME

We are using the current CNAME record for a server, i.e. foo.example.com => CNAME => server1.example.com server1.example.com => CNAME => ec2-34-142-138-31.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-...
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Avoiding downtime while switching CNAMEs with AWS's Route53

I'm trying to make a seamless transition from Heroku to AWS. Currently, DNS is being handled by Route53, with a CNAME record sending traffic to the heroku SSL subdomain. I need to change this to an A ...
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DNS setup: CNAME vs wildcard for SaaS

So I'm new to actually caring about how DNS's actually work, as opposed to plugging stuff in and troubleshooting. I have an application that will display different information depending on what domain ...
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How long does it take for a Route 53 CNAME to work?

I have set up a CNAME in Amazon's Route 53 to point to another server. This is a new CNAME for a new subdomain pointing to an existing domain name. With other DNS providers that I've worked with, new ...
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How to resolve issue... Amazon ec2, elastic IP setup with Route 53 not working?

In this post it says its best to use CNAME only for Ec2 / route 53 setup: EC2/Route53: How do I assign my new domain name to an instance?. However, I added: *.mysite.org. CNAME ec2-174-129-38-xxx....
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