DNS Help Needed

[matty005]

I need help with some DNS.

What is:

Serial Number
refresh
retry
expire
minimum ttl

What do i need for the NS and A records? How many NS and A records do i need?

Is NS mydomain nameservers and is A my IPs? What is MX??? And CNAME???

I already have DNS setup,but it doesnt work.

Thanks.:-)

[Super Wolves]

NS - the name to where you point your doman to.

MX - the name of the server that holds all your e-mail

CNAME - if you want to point a sub-domain to a different IP address EX: "this.domain.com" -> "192.168.57.100" and "other.domain.com" -> "255.255.246.134"

[Boby]

Hello,

Every time you follow a link or type in the name of a web site, such as www.asystemsusa.com, that name must be translated into an IP address on the Internet. This translation is done by the domain name service. A DNS server is a program that participates in the task of providing this sevice.

Some DNS servers respond to queries from web browsers and other programs, make further inquiries, and return IP addresses, such as 203.115.229.175, which is the current IP address of www.asystemsusa.com. Other DNS servers have primary responsibility for answering DNS inquiries about names within a particular domain, such as the asystemsusa.com domain.

Every time a new domain is registered, a DNS server must be configured to give out address information for that domain, so that users can actually find web sites in that domain. In most cases, web hosting companies provide this service for the domains that they host; it is rare for webmasters to run their own DNS servers.

[amz]

Go to http://www.dnsreport.com/ and run your (or any) address ....

The report that comes back will explain a lot of answers to the questions
that you ask including how those settings should be set.

I recommend you do a few searches on Google for DNS tutorials or
BIND manuals to get a basic understanding of DNS servers.

Hope the helps ...

[Decker]

Try google for 'DNS tutorial' and look for a basic/starter one.

DNS is relatively simple but has a lot of little quirks and is very literal about what you can enter.