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| Name | <blank> | DNS Name |
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| Type | A | Record type. List is alphabetical, see below for common uses | |
| Status | Active | Active/Disabled. Lets you disable a record. The DNS server will not serve a disabled entry, but leave it visible in the portal if you need to re-enable later. | |
| TTL | 4 Hours (14400 seconds) | Time to Live. Amount of time this record should be cached on Recursive DNS servers before rechecking with Authoritative servers. Leave as default unless this is a special case. | |
| Data | <blank> | The value to return, "destination". If the Data field contains a name, you must use the fully-qualified domain name. e.g. if you point 'maple.example.com' to the CNAME 'bacon.example.com', the Data field must contain 'bacon.example.com.' | |
| Comment | <blank> | Comment to yourself, e.g. "ticket 1234". The comment field will not be used as DNS data, and is only visible in portal. |
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Forward Zones
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Forward zones are listed on the " | Hosted DomainsZones" tab See DNS: Record Types for details about specific record types (A, NS, MX, etc). |
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Fill in the Name, Type, and Data fields Status, TTL, Comment fields are optional. We recommend keeping the TTL set to 4 hours (14400 seconds) unless you know you need a different value. |
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You will get a warning at the top Make further additions or changes if desired |
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 under the yellow warning to apply all changes you've madeConfirm changes by pressing
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Reverse (PTR) Zones
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IPv4 reverse zones are listed on the " | Hosted Domains Zones in-addr.arpa" tab. These will only appear if you own or have delegated IPv4 space. IPv4 reverse zones are listed in a reverse format per RFC1035 Sec 3.5. A zone called "30.20.10.in-addr-arpa" handles data for 10.20.30.0/24. |
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Set "name" to the last number in the IP address, which is 1 in this example (this will create 10.20.30.1) For data, enter the full domain name, www.example.com in this example Note that PTR records require a trailing period (.) character. If you do not enter one, it will be automatically added. |
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IPv6 reverse zones are listed on the "Hosted Domains Zones ip6.arpa" tab. These will only appear if you own or have delegated IPv6 space. IPv6 reverse zones are defined in rfc3152 and use a reverse format. 0.e.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa is for 2001:4e0::/32. |
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Set the Name to the full ipv6 address. For data, enter the full domain name, www.example.com in this example Note that PTR records require a trailing period (.) character. If you do not enter one, it will be automatically added. |
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Secondary Zones
If WiscNet's DNS servers are acting as secondary to yours, you may view your zones but cannot make changes in our portal.
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