DNS Help

The Hosts form works just like a switchboard. You can specify where third-level names (also called, "hosts") for your domain name "yourdomain.com" are directed to. In the "Host Name" column, enter your third-level domain, for example "www" would indicate "www.yourdomain.com" and "home" would indicate "home.yourdomain.com". You can even use "ftp" to indicate "ftp.yourdomain.com". Also, if you would like to allow users to access your site with simply "yourdomain.com", then either leave the field blank or type an "@". NOTE: If "@" is used for Host Name, then Record Type can not be "CNAME". The following chart describes acceptable values for each "Record Type":

Record Type Valid entries for Address field A(Address):  Must be the IP address of a web server, for example "209.19.56.15" MXE(Mail Easy):  Must be the IP address of a mail server, for example "209.19.56.20" MX(Mail):  Can be either a host name under this domain name (for example, "mail3") or the name of a mail server (for example, "mail.yahoo.com."). NOTE: When using a mail server name, it should end with a period ".". (If you forget the period and we recognize the TLD, we will automatically insert one.) CNAME(Alias):  Can be either a host name under this domain name (for example, "www") or another domain name (for example, "www.yahoo.com."). NOTE: When using a domain name, it should end with a period ".". (If you forget the period and we recognize the TLD, we will automatically insert one.) URL Redirect  URL Frame:  For URL Redirect and URL Frame, this field should contain a full URL address, for example "http://dir.yahoo.com/arts/humanities/" AAAA (IPv6 Address) Record:  An AAAA (or "quad-A") record is similar to an A record, except that it maps a hostname to an IPv6 address. An A record specifies an IPv4 address, which is currently the dominant Internet Protocol version. In 1998 the IETF designated IPv6 as the successor to version 4 mainly for its much larger amount of available addresses, which provides flexibility in allocated addresses and routing traffic and prevents address exhaustion as more and more hosts are connecting to the Internet and available IPv4 addresses are running out. IPv6 addresses are normally written as eight groups of four hexadecimal digits, where each group is separated by a colon. Example IPv6 format: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 To shorted the writing and presentation of addresses, several simplifications to the notation are permitted. * Any leading zeros in a group may be omitted; thus, the example becomes: 2001:db8:85a3:0:0:8a2e:370:7334 * One or any number of consecutive groups of 0 value may be replaced with two colons (::): 2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334

NOTE: The MX Pref column only applies to the MX Record Type. For all other Record Types, this field is ignored. NOTE: Use the "@" in the Address column to mean "yourdomain.com". NOTE: If you run out of lines, submit the form and come back to this page, more blank lines will automatically appear.