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Common DNS record types you may use when Managing DNS Records

Example NameTypeExample DataDescription
wwwA10.20.30.1

Address, converts a name to an

IP The

IP. The web interface will automatically add

a trailing period

the zone name.

This will

cause www

cause www.example.

com to

com to resolve to 10.20.30.1

ipv6AAAA2001:db8::1

IPv6 Address record.

This will

cause ipv6

cause ipv6.example.

com to

com to also resolve to 2001:db8::1

www2CNAMEwww.example.com.

Canonical Name - Alias one name to another, www2 will resolve to whatever ip www does.

No

 The web interface will automatically add a trailing period

added

(.)

This will cause www2.example.com to resolve to the same IP

as www

as www.example.com

@mail

Note: You must use the fully-qualified domain name in the Data field.

@MX10 mail.google.com.

Mail Exchange record. Requires a priority, 10 in this example. The web interface will pop up a window asking for this.

@ is the root of the domain, this will tell Email servers that mail for example.com lives at a server called "mail.google.com".

@NSns1.wiscnet.net.

Nameserver record, leave these alone if hosting with WiscNet. They should either be dns.uw-mad/dns.uw-mil OR ns1/ns2.wiscnet.net.

@ is the root of the domain, this will cause example.com to have a nameserver of "ns1.wiscnet.net".

baconTXT"Bacon ipsum dolor.."

Text record. Commonly used

for 

for Sender Policy Framework, DKIM, DMARC. The web interface will automatically add

commentsThis example 

quotation marks.

This example will respond with a string of text for bacon.example.com

1PTRwww.example.com.

IPv4 pointer record. Converts an IPv4 address to a name. The web interface will automatically add the trailing period (.)

In the zone, 30.20.10.in-addr-arpa, this will cause 10.20.30.1 to resolve to "www.example.com"

2001:db8::1PTRipv6.example.com.

IPv6 pointer record. Converts an IPv6 address to a name. The web interface will automatically add the trailing period (.)

In the zone, 8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa, this will cause 2001:db8::1 to resolve to "ipv6.example.com"