This video guide contains basic information and procedures for managing DNS records. Detailed information can be found in the full article DNS – Records. The mentioned article about changing an SPF record can be found at the link Emails – SPF Record.
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DNS records are used to route requests to a domain. Thanks to them, visitors can find the website on Webhosting and deliver email to the mailserver. In addition, records can contain various other settings and domain verification.
Before you start setting up DNS records, check with your domain registrar who provides the DNS servers. Setting records on third-party DNS servers does not affect the domain’s functionality in any way.
Before making the actual changes, make sure you have all the details for the changes you are about to make ready. The most important are the names, types, and data of the records you need to enter. You will get them from the provider of the service you are configuring in DNS.
To edit DNS in the VEDOS administration, log in to your customer account and then follow these steps:
- In the navigation bar, click DNS.
- From the list, select the domain for which you want to change the DNS records.
- In the left menu, click DNS records.
For further work with the interface, follow the instructions below for specific record changes.
Most commonly, you configure website records. These are A and AAAA records. If your web provider uses only A records, delete any existing AAAA records with the same name. Simply click the cross icons on the left side of the table, or select these records and click the Delete selected records button below the table.
To edit a record, click the pencil button, update the record data, and confirm with the Edit record button.
For DNS records, it is common to enter one set of A (or AAAA) records without a name, i.e. for the main domain, and one with the * character in the name. These capture all subdomains that are not precisely specified in DNS.
If you want to specify a subdomain, for example because it points to another server, add a new record.
To add a new subdomain record, click the New record button. Fill in the table with:
- Name of the subdomain, for example eshop
- Type, often A, AAAA, or CNAME
- Data from your provider
Confirm the settings by clicking the Save record button.
Add a new record for the main domain in the same way, but leave the Name field empty.
For email, you mainly set MX records. These are usually records without a name that work on the main domain. The data for these records consists of two parts:
- The first part is a number called priority. More important servers have lower numbers.
- The second part is the actual address of the mailserver.
In this example, most messages go through these two servers, while this third one has a higher number and serves as a backup.
If you are moving to another mailhosting provider, you can edit the existing records to the new ones and delete all the remaining ones. If the new provider has more MX records, add additional ones as needed. These records are usually entered without a name.
For proper email functionality, the so-called SPF record is used. It is a record without a name with type TXT, and it contains data provided by your email solution provider. For VEDOS, you can find it, for example, in a separate knowledge base article.
After finishing the changes, click the Apply changes button. Keep in mind that it usually takes several dozen minutes for the changes to propagate. If they do not appear even after an hour, make sure the domain actually uses WEDOS DNS servers, or clear your browser cache and reload the website.