I'm new at this and want to make sure I'm understanding A records completely. If I change the A record for my domain name, traffic for that domain name will be redirected to the new IP address, correct? We have a Google hosted domain and a ShowIt website. We are building a landing page on MailChimp. MailChimp's instructions say to change our domain A records and CNAME. If I follow these directions, then ALL traffic would go to the landing page instead of the ShowIt site... right?
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There seems to be a misunderstanding of what an A record is. There isn’t “The A Record.” There are multiple A records, usually, for any domain. If your domain is example.com then there may be multiple A records, one for each of “www.example.com”, “mail.example.com”, “mailchimp.example.com” or whatever. A CNAME is just an alias that points to another A record. – Appleoddity Mar 15 '22 at 03:15