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Questions tagged [a-record]

An A record is a type of DNS record that maps a name to an IP address. For example, the A record for serverfault.com is 64.34.119.12

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Unable To See Changes To A Record

Ok I need some advice on what to do next to solve this issue. Over a week ago I changed the A records for my domain to point to my new vps. Now a week later no matter what I try I cannot see the domain on my home PCs, I can however see it when I use…
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Is it fine to have NS and A record for the host name

I just registered a domain on Route 53 and the record set didn't have an A record for the hostname (assume it example.com). It just had an NS record for "example.com", listing the nameservers. Although, there was an A record for www.example.com. The…
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Pointing sub-domain on Google domains to Wordpress running on Digital Ocean?

I want a sub-domain on my google domains to point to blog.mydomain.example. Currently, it points to DNS at the root domain to Github pages. I want that to remain the same, but the blog subdomain to point to my wordpress running on digital ocean.…
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Website not being found for certain users. Possible A Record issue?

Over the last month my website https://www.storehouseno9.com has sporadically not been found by various users trying to get to my site. I've only experienced this issue once or twice, but it's a consistent issue for many of my users, and I cant seem…
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Pointing users self registered domains to my IP address, now change to name servers

I have a platform I made for my own use with the idea of potentially opening it out to a wider audience later. It's always been on Linode and will be there initially but I can see myself migrating it to Elastic Beanstalk on AWS if it reaches even a…
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How to setup DNS to connect 2 servers with 1 Domain?

I have 2 Servers: Server 1 IPs: 45.35.56.194 45.35.56.195 Server 2 IPs: 173.254.214.217 173.254.214.218 Each server has different clients, therefore, Server 1 client has nothing to do with Server 2 clients. To my Server 1 clients I gave these…
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how to point my domain name to VPS server

I have domain name registered with crazydomains.com and linux vps server with godaddy. I want to point my domain name to VPS server Ip address. so question is Do i need to setup DNS server using BIND in my VPS ? or Add A…
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Create alias records for subdomains

I have the domain www.mysite.com. This is what I ultimately want to do with it: On the site www.mysite.com, there will be a marketing website for my website/product (I'll call it the "software"), and a registration form. When registering, a…
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Subdomain resolving to 2 different IP addresses (one unknown)

I have a domain registered with Fasthosts (animesoc.co.uk). I've recently hosted a forum on an external server (with IP address 51.254.128.170), and pointed the subdomain http://forums.animesoc.co.uk/ to this by adding the corresponding A…
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Seperate web/mail server, mailserver won't receive emails

I have a basic set up: VPS Mailserver Domain Management This is my first experience setting up both a VPS and a separate mail server. My mail server won't receive emails. DNS A mail.samholguin.co.uk. 79.170.40.147 3600 A …
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A-Record to point to hosting vs. changing DNS while keeping the mail externally

I currently am dealing with a client whose e-mail is hosted on Google. We are just in the process of taking over their domain, but their current hosting company suggests a different set up than I do and I was wondering if you could tell me some…
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Is it possible to have both A record and URL redirect at same domain ? How to?

Let's assume I have example.org. I want to redirect all request (URL redirect) to google.com But I also want to have a A record on example.org that points to 127.0.0.1 So pinging example.org should ping to 127.0.0.1 but browsing example.org should…
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Redirecting and changing protocol from http to https using CNAME

Hi I bought a domain with dreamhost. example.com. Now I want to redirect it to one of my azure VM at https://example.cloudapp.net. Apparently it needed to change the protocole as well. Based on my research it can't be done using CNAME. Am I missing…
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DNS: why do we need RR type NS with name and not directly IP?

let's assume I search the NS for the domain yeahman.com. I may get an answer TYPE NS that the server for this domain is ns55.yeahman.com. Then I need at the same time a TYPE A entry in the additional section to get the IP of ns55.yeahman.com let's…
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Response time more than doubled after switching from A to CNAME on Heroku

I recently switched my Heroku app DNS setting from using A record at the apex to using CNAME record at www subdomain, because of the scenario outlined in this blog post: http://neilmiddleton.com/the-dangers-of-a-records-and-heroku/ Supposedly, this…
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