DNS records management: A, MX, CNAME records
With each registered domain, we offer (free of charge) DNS records management. This means that in our control panel you will be able to easily update A, MX, CNAME records.
A records are the most used records for DNS. They associate domains and sub-domains to a specific IP. Examples:
sales.mydomain.com → 192.168.11.45
mail.mydomain.com → 201.11.22.99
mydomain.com → 128.64.32.16
To manage your A records, click on “A records”. Here you will be able to add new A records, as well as editing or deleting those which already exist. To create an A record, click on “Add A record”. Insert the sub-domain and respective IP.
Example: If you want the subdomain sales.mydomain.com to be associated to the IP 100.200.30.40, you should write "sales" in Subdomain, and "100.200.30.40" in the IP field.
Note: Subdomain @ is used to specify an IP for the domain itself, i.e, sub-domain @.mydomain.com is the same as mydomain.com. It is recommended that there should always be an IP for @.
You can also specify an A record for subdomain *. This is a wildcard which allows you to setup an IP for all subdomains which do not have an A record on their own. For example, if you setup an A record for *.mydomain.com, then all sub-domain, like someword.mydomain.com, will work with the IP address you setup for the wildcard's A record.
MX records allow configuring the e-mail exchange servers that are to be used for routing the e-mail messages. There can be many MX records per domain, each one with its own priority. This priority defines the order in which the email servers will be used in case of any malfunction.
Example: If domain mydomain.com has MX records configured with the priority defined between brackets, as follows:
mail.mailserver.com (5)
pop3.mailserver.com (10)
When someone sends an email to the account [email protected], this email will be sent through mail.mailserver.com first (higher priority), and in case of failure, it will retry through pop3.mailserver.com (lower priority).
To manage your MX records click on “MX records”. Here you will be able to add new MX records, as well as editing or deleting those which already exist. To create an MX record, click on “Add MX record”. Insert address of the mail server (ex: mail.mailserver.com) and select the desired priority from the drop down menu.
