Q. Is there an additional fee for Managed DNS?
A. No, our managed DNS is included into the price of a domain name.
Q. How do I access Managed DNS?
A. From within your Domain Manager choose "Zone Records" from the left hand navigation.
Q:What are the zone’s SOA settings?
A:SOA settings are set at:
Refresh: 10001
Retry: 7200
Expire: 2419200
Default TTL: 86400
Q:Can the SOA settings be modified?
A. No. SOA settings are not editable.
Q. What does your DNS control panel look like?
A. Click here
Q. Can I demo your DNS?
A. Yes, log in at https://www.wsmdomains.com/manage.html
Domain: demodns.com
User/ demoit
Pass/ demoit
Once logged in, choose Name Servers DNS from the side navigation, scroll to the second section "ADVANCED DNS MANAGEMENT TOOLS", click on the link to start building zone records.
Q. What are SPF records?
A. SPF is Sender Policy Framework SPF fights return-path address forgery and makes it easier to identify spoofs. For more information, visit http://spf.pobox.com/
Q. How do I create an SPF record.
A. Click here.
DNS - EXAMPLES
A Records ( we've created a pull down menu for common record terms)
Each of these records maps a host name to an IP address.
Example:
Host Name |
Machine IP Address
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| *.dnscomet.com |
216.248.194.6. |
| mail.dnscomet.com |
216.248.194.15. |
| news.dnscomet.com |
216.248.194.8. |
- Host Name - Contains the domain name or sub domain used to access your IP address.
- IP Address - indicates the machine address or service the host is mapped to.
In the example above, the *.(wildcard) will map everything to your IP address, this is commonly what is needed for a website. The example above also shows two sub domains; mail.dnscomet.com and news.dnscomet.com which go to separate IP addresses.
If you have a web site, use the first 2 drop down box entries. - Or - add another host name entry with the empty field.
Sub domain (hostname) examples:
www.yourdomain.com
mail.yourdomain.com
webmail.yourdomain.com
employee-portal.yourdomain.com
TTL (time to live) on all records is set to 10800. (3 hours) |
MX Records ( we've created a pull down menu for common record terms)
These records tell mail servers where to deliver mail. MX records contain the host name, or domain, which appears in the e-mail address, (myaddress@dnscomet.com) and the location of the Mail Exchanger on the server where the mail should be delivered. (mail.dnscomet.com. accepts mail for myaddress@dnscomet.com)
Example:
Host Name |
Mail Exchanger
(A Record) |
Preference |
| dnscomet.com |
mail.dnscomet.com. |
10 |
| dnscomet.com |
mail2.dnscomet.com. |
20 |
- Host Name - Contains the domain name, or records that are used for the entire domain.
- Mail Exchanger -This tells the server where to deliver the mail. Remember, you need an A record in place. Mail is directed to the mail exchangers defined by these records.
- Preference for the mail exchanger - The lower the number the higher the preference. In the example record above, the mailserver will first try mail.dnscomet first. (Pref. of 10). If the mail server with highest value (preference) is inaccessible the mail will be delivered to the mail server next in precedence. (Pref. of 20)
If your e-mail server is configured properly it can queue mail for another system.
For example, if the server mail.dnscomet.com. is unavailable then mail2.dnscomet.com. mail will be queued until mail.dnscomet.com. is ready to accept mail again. At that time mail2.dnscomet.com will send its queued mail to mail.dnscomet.com.
Note: Contact your system administrator to make certain your mail server is configured correctly. Establishing a DNS record is only one part of successful domain resolution.
Managed DNS Name Servers:
Once you have created your DNS record, you will need to update your name servers to:
NS1.MDNSSERVICE.COM
NS2.MDNSSERVICE.COM
NS3.MDNSSERVICE.COM
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