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Edit DNS Records

DNS stands for Domain Name System and is the lifeline of the internet. Without it, you would not be able to refer to website as simply as for example "http://www.mydomain.com" or email your friend and colleagues as "name@mydomain.com". Computes communicate with each other using IP addresses which consists of lengthy numbers such as "66.28.55.3". Therefore the existence of DNS makes the internet more user-friendly because it shields you from having to remember such lengthy numbers, and refer to any computers using domain names which is definitely easier to remember! You can compare DNS with a very large telephone directory. Of course you can remember some telephone numbers yourself, but remembering millions, or even more, is impossible. That's why there is DNS.

Using our Customer Control Panel you can maintain the DNS for your domain yourself. There are four possibilities for you to add:

First, click on the Domain name you wish to edit.

At the bottom right, click on the 'Edit DNS Record'.

A records
CNAME records
MX records
TXT records
Web Forwarding
Email Forwarding

A records

The main part of DNS is the connection between hostnames and IP addresses. Every pc or server that has a connection with the Internet has an IP address. For instance a webserver can have the IP address 1.2.3.4. This means you either connect to this server by its IP address, 1.2.3.4 or by the hostname, www.abc.com. When you want to add a entry like this in DNS, you have to use type A record, and IP address as the destination.

<hostname>	<type>	<destination>
www.abc.com.	A	1.2.3.4

TXT records

TXT stands for text record and is available and editable online if you are using IP Mirror's nameservers. In addition to storing lines of text to convey additional information about services using the domain name, it is used for Sender Policy Framework (SPF) which is a spam fighting method and uses the TXT-records to define which hosts are permitted to send e-mails for a domain.

For more information on SPF and how to configure the correct TXT record for your domain go here.

<hostname>	<type>	<destination>
abc.com.	TXT	"Your Address as example"

CNAME records

It is also possible to use another hostname as destination. In this case, the type is CNAME (canonical name). You have to make sure that whatever hostname you type in as the destination, that hostname is resolvable to a valid IP address, otherwise it is useless.

<hostname>	<type>	<destination>
abc.com.	CNAME	www.abc.com.

MX records

Another important aspect of Internet nowadays is the use of email. Email also makes use of DNS. The hostname then points to mailservers using the DNS type MX (Mail eXchange). The type MX must indicate the priority value. The lowest priority value tells which server to be used first. If that server for whatever reason is unreachable, the second lowest priority value will be used. One important rule, the destination must never point to a CNAME record, but always point to an A record.

<hostname>	<type>	<destination>	<priority>
abc.com.	MX	mailserver1.abc.com.	10
abc.com.	MX	mailserver2.abc.com.	20

Most users made a common mistake by entering the hostname as "mail.abc.com" with the intention to use email address as "myname@abc.com". If hostname is entered as "mail.abc.com", then the email address will end up as "myname@mail.abc.com".

Web Forwarding

Use webfoward to redirect your own www.yourdomain.name to your desired URL.

Using the 'redirect' type simply redirects one URL to another.
Using the 'cloak' type the host URL will remain in the addressbar of the browser. But visitors are actually seeing the 'redirected to' URL although they do not notice it. Also you will have the options to enter three extra optional settings:

Title :: title field which will be shown at the top of each browser window.
Meta Description :: short description about your website
Meta Keywords :: various keywords regarding your website. These Meta tags are mainly used for search engines.

Email Forwarding

Forward your emailaddress as email@yourdomain.name to whatever email address you prefer. Mail will be delivered almost instantly.

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