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There are two sides of DNSSEC - Signing and Validation; together, they provide an increased level...

 The DNS configuration must be updated at your domain registrar for your domain to resolve DNS...

To set a reverse DNS (rDNS or PTR) entry for a cloud server, you first need to log into Cloud...

To set up a domain name, you need to do two things. First, you need to purchase a domain name...

When you purchased a server plan from us and upon logging in to your control panel and when you...

A CNAME (Canonical Name) record, is an alias for another DNS record. It refers to another full...

301 Redirect This is a HTTP response code. For URL forwarding, it indicates a permanent move of...

Google Apps provides a common example of using MX Records for email delivery. When you create a...

Changing name servers usually takes longer to propagate than making changes to DNS records. it...

If your account is active, records you add to a domain will be available within seconds from any...

A good tool that you can use to check DNSSEC is located at...

About SPF Record An SPF record is a type of Domain Name Service (DNS) record that identifies...

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SellCloud configures your server to listen on all interfaces, so if your server has multiple IP...

Using subdomains with Sellcloud is exactly the same as using any other domain name. If you want...

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DNS is normally used to point a domain name to an IP address. For example, you would use an A...

Login in to your control panel Click on your services -> your server Then...

For non mail servers rDNS or PTR records aren't important. Historically, PTR records prevented...

All our name servers have IPv6 addresses and respond to queries over IPv6.Alert: For Control...

A record Points a domain/hostname to a specified IPv4 direction. Set your domain to its location....

Check that you're using a fresh DNS cache Every DNS record lookup is cached by default up to the...

Name server propagation delay If you recently pointed the domain to DNSimple and the domain...

The Start of Authority, or SOA, record is a mandatory record in all zone files. It must be the...

Zone files are the way that name servers store information about the domains they know about....

The AAAA Record points your hostname to an IPv6 address. The record AAAA specifies IP address...

CAA records are used to specify which Certificate Authorities (CAs) are allowed to issue SSL/TLS...

DNSSEC is short for Domain Name System Security Extensions. It is a set of extensions that add...

Every domain has with its relevant Authority (governing registration body of Domain Names),...

If you have to get one DNS record right, the reverse DNS record, also know as a PTR record, is...

The top-level domain (TLD), sometimes called the internet domain extension, is the very last...

The A Record points your hostname to an IP address. The record A specifies IP address (IPv4) for...

CNAME stands for Canonical Name. CNAME records can be used to alias one name to another. For...

DKIM stands for DomainKeys Identified Email. It provides a way to validate that an organization...

A fully qualified domain name, often called FQDN, is what we call an absolute domain name....

An MX-record (Mail eXchange-record) is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS)....

PTR records are used for the Reverse DNS (Domain Name System) lookup. Using the IP address you...

In the above scenario, we referred to a "requester". What is the requester in this situation? In...

As we said, DNS is, at its core, a hierarchical system. At the top of this system is what are...

A TXT record is a resource record used to provide the ability to associate text with a zone. This...

Normal DNS queries determine the unknown IP address for a known host name. This is required, for...

A subject related to hosts are subdomains. DNS works in a hierarchy. TLDs can have many domains...

A zone file is a representation of your domain’s zone in a text file. The text file follows the...

An ALIAS record is a virtual record type we created to provide CNAME-like behavior on apex...

What’s an SOA record? An SOA record is a Start of Authority. Every domain must have a Start of...

SPF is an email authentication protocol that allows the admin of the domain to define the list of...

An SPF record is a Sender Policy Framework record. It’s used to indicate to mail exchanges which...

SRV records help with service discovery. For example, SRV records are used in Internet Telephony...

The A and CNAME records are the two common ways to map a host name (“name”) to one or more IP...

The standard time-to-live (TTL) for records added to DNSimple is 30 mins. Through the web...