Useful tips:
– Some service providers use different markings, most common is ”@”. That means you should add your domain name in the ”name” field. This can’t be left to blank. If your need to add record using ”www”, it will shown as ”www.yourdomain.fi” in the zone editor.
– Please note: records update usually in 1-2 hours, but some times this can take several hours depending on your network or browsers cache. TTL (time to live) tells what is the lifespan of the record in seconds. Most common is 3600 which means 1 hour and usually you don’t need to modify this.
Zone settings:
1. Go to ”Zone Editor” that you will see in control panel
2. Click on ”Manage”
3. You will see all your current settings. If you want to modify existing record, click on the ”Edit”.
4. If you want to add new record, click on ”Add record” and you can choose the type of record you want to add.
Different record types:
A-record:
With A-record you can point your domain or subdomain to another service, using their IP address. For example our IP is 31.217.196.220. This will affect only your website.
If your website provider has multiple A-records, you should add all of them. If there’s only one A-record, you can modify the one default record that your domain has already.
MX-record:
MX-record will determine your email service. Some providers, for example gSuite, will have multiple records and you will need to add them all.
– Name: you domain, for example mydomain.fi
– Priority: The server with the lowest priority number will be the primary email server, usually this is 0 (zero).
– Destination: The destination of the server where your mail services are.
CNAME-record:
CNAME-record can be added only to subdomains (for example www.yourdomain.fi) and this can point either to domain or subdomain, but not to IP address. By default you will have our www-record that points to your primary domain.
TXT-record:
With TXT-record you can for example verify your domain to Google. Also SPF-record is added as TXT.
SRV-record:
SRV-records are used for Office365-service. Example how to add Office365-services record:
– Name: _sip._tls. (after this your domain will be automatically added)
– Priority: 100
– Weight: 1
– Port: 443
– Target: sipdir.online.lync.com
