How To Change DNS Zones cPanel Flashcards
What is DNS?
Like a letter in the post office, an address or coordinate is needed to locate a website in the world of the Internet. A domain name system, also known as DNS, is the internets answer to the Post Master.
What makes up a DNS Zone?
MX, CNAME, and A Records.
What are Nameservers?
Nameservers, or NS records, are the primary records In DNS That make an IP address answer back to a domain name on a server. If it weren’t for Nameservers, people would need to use IP addresses to pull up websites rather than a domain name, which would make web addresses much harder to remember.
What are A Records?
Address records, or A records, are the other side to Nameservers. Address records point a domain to an IP address on a server, making it resolve to a specific IP address.
What is CNAME records?
Canonical Name Records, or CNAME records, serve as aliases for domain names of another canonical domain name. This normally works best for pointing domains wit a du folder to a subdominant under the same primary domain name.
What are MX Records?
Mail exchange records, or MX Records, are the primary records which direct email for a domain name. These records work in conjunction with DA records and in S records to direct the email received for domain name to the proper mail server. Usually, MX records or prioritized with the number of preference that will indicate which mail servers should be used when there are several listed.
What are PTR records?
Reverse DNS records, also known as pointer or PTR records, are used to resolve IPS to a domain name and vice versa. That means you can make host gator.com point to 10.0.0.1, and make a PTR record so that 10.0.0.1, if checked, would tell you that it belongs to us get it.com. It also allows the receiver of your emails to check for the possible spoof emails which will be treated as spam. Without this record, the receiver must rely on guessing if your email might be spam.
What are TXT records?
Text records, better known as TXT records, or custom records which contain human readable data, TST records are dynamic and can be used for several purposes such as verifying to Maine ownership for services such as Google apps.
What are SRV records?
Service records, also known as SOB records, are used to point one domain to another domain name using a specific destination port. SRV records allow specific services, such as VOIP OR IM, to be directed to a separate location.
What are AAAA records?
And AAA record points to it the main or subdomain to in IPv6 address in the same way that in a record does: however, A record use IPv4 addresses only. Currently, host gator does not support IPv6 addresses.
What do name servers do?
Assist in finding the server incorrect in this zone for domain in order to get the information on the other DNS zone records.
NS records listed in the DNS zone must match the name servers being used. True or false?
True
TXT records are custom records which contain machine-readable data. TXT records must be formatted according to whichever technology you’re trying to use. True or false?
True
How to change DNS zones; shared?
With cPanel, uses her granted access to make some DNS changes from within the control panel. Please note that this effect will only work if HostGator’s name servers or private name servers registered with HostGator say PS are being used.
How to change DNS zones; reseller?
With the reseller account, any of the DNS zone records can be added and modified with no restrictions; however, this feature is only available at host gator’s name servers or private name servers registered with those gators IP’s are being used.
