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Whats a CNAME record?

April 26, 2017cname record

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Whats a CNAME record?

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You should use a CNAME record whenever you want associate a new subdomain to an already existing A record; i.e. you can make “www.somedomain.tld” to “somedomain.tld”, which should already have been assigned an IP with an A record. This allows you to have as many subdomains as you wish without having to specify the IP for every record. Use a CNAME if you have more services pointing to the same IP. This way you will have to update only one record in the convenience of a change of IP address. Example of a CNAME record: “stuff.everybox.com CNAME www.everybox.com” where ‘www.everybox.com’ is an A record listing an IP address, and ‘stuff.everybox.com’ points to ‘www.everybox.com’. It will NOT allow you to foward a domain to a specific web page. Use a webhop for that. Port numbers can be changed with webhops, as well; CNAMEs cannot change the HTTP default of 80 to any other port number. Do not use CNAME defined hostnames in MX records.