DNS Record Types Explained
August 26th, 2011
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A Record
The majority of DNS records are “A” records. A records allow for you to point different sections of your domain to different IP addresses or servers. For example, this would be useful for having “www.domain.com” point to your web server’s IP address and “mail.domain.com” point to your mail server’s IP address. Each record includes a “Host Name” value and a corresponding IP Address. Read more…
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