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What is the DNS Control Panel?

April 26, 2017CONTROL DNS panel

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What is the DNS Control Panel?

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The DNS Control Panel allows you to create address and mail records for your domain. 46. What is an address record? An address record has two fields: a host name field, and an IP address field. The host name field can be something like www or mail. So if someone typed www.yourdomain.com into a browser, they would be taken to the IP address associated with that record. This IP address would be wherever your site is located at. 47. What is a mail record? A mail record determines where any mail sent to your domain goes. A mail record has two fields: a host name field, and an address field. 48. Can the address field for the mail record contain an IP address? No. This field must contain the name of the mailserver that you want your mail to go to. 49. I have mail.mydomainname.com in the address field of my mail record, but I am not receiving my mail. What is wrong? You will need an address record with the host name mail. This address record will need to have the IP address of your mailserver