Gandi A Records. Can't point citybuilder.microflow.io at our bare IP.

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Gandi A Records. Can't point citybuilder.microflow.io at our bare IP. #74

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Morningstar88 commented 7 years ago

https://wiki.gandi.net/en/dns/zone/a-record

You have two options for editing your zone file: normal and expert.
In normal mode (recommended for beginners), your zone file will be shown with each resource record on its own line
Click the pencil icon to edit the corresponding line, or click “Add” to add a new record. -You will be presented with a form with the following fields: Type, TTL, Name, Value...
When you're done, be sure to click Submit. You will see this message: "The record has been successfuly added.:."
Then, you must click “Activate this version”: You'll receive a confirmation message that the zone file's version has been changed. Now, you just have to wait about three hours for your changes to propagate.

https://wiki.gandi.net/en/dns/zone/edit

Morningstar88 commented 7 years ago

How to edit a domain's zone file

1. Go to the domain's management page

Go to your domain's management page and look down to the “Zone files” area that is on the bottom right-hand side of the page.

Create a copy of the zone file (if necessary)

If zone file is not editable

Morningstar88 commented 7 years ago

Difference between A Records and CName

http://www.noip.com/blog/2011/07/11/what-is-the-difference-between-a-cname-record-a-record-and-redirect/

A Record

An A record is the actual record. The name is resolved to the corresponding IP address.

An example of this is www.no-ip.com resolves to 204.16.252.112

CName

An example of this is:

www.no-ip.com to www.noip.com

Morningstar88 commented 7 years ago

Name Servers

https://wiki.gandi.net/en/domains/management/using-gandi-dns

If you want to use Gandi's DNS, click on “Modify servers”. This will bring up the following:

https://wiki.gandi.net/_media/en/domains/management/change2gandidns-2-en.png

a.dns.gandi.net

b.dns.gandi.net

c.dns.gandi.net

To quickly switch to using Gandi's DNS servers, click on “Use Gandi's nameservers,”. The form will change to be pre-filled with our DNS and you will be offered the possibility of choosing a pre-existing zone file by using the dropdown menu.

Morningstar88 commented 7 years ago

Changing a Zone File

If you want to change the zonefile from the one that your domain is currently using to another one that is in your zone file portfolio, you can do this online.

Morningstar88 commented 7 years ago

How to Set Up a Subdomain

A subdomain is a subordinate space of any domain. i.e. blog.example.com or citybuilder.microflow.io

How to Make a Subdomain

Make a zone file entry

Tell the name servers that a subdomain exists.
Where to find the associated subdomain.

Let's say you want to “point” www.example.com to a Gandi Simple Hosting server. To do this, you'll need to add an entry in your DNS zone file similar to this one.

www 10800 IN CNAME gpaas1.dc0.gandi.net.

Don't forget the dot or it will not work.

And perhaps you have a mobile phone website hosted by Wix and you need a ”m” subdomain, then you just add a line like:

m 10800 IN A 216.139.213.144

Create an A Record

Learn how to edit the zone file first:

https://wiki.gandi.net/en/dns/zone/edit