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- 7045-USDF-6989
- Date Created
- Thu, 29th Nov 2012
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DNS
Question
What is DNS?
Answer
DNS is the phone book of the internet, it tells your computer how to access websites.
A DNS entry is comprised of multiple parts, the three main pieces are A records, MX records, and CNAME records. A records are for websites themselves, MX records are for email servers, and CNAME records are for aliases.
To change your DNS settings in your own QWK.net control panel please follow these steps.
Select Domains from the main page of your QWK.net control panel.
Select the domain name you wish to edit DNS for.
Click the Edit link next to 'DNS Configuration'.
From here you can add and remove DNS entries.
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