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HOW TO USE FREENOM DNS SERVICE

If you want to add your own A, MX, CNAME or other DNS records, you can: and of course at no charge.

STEP 1

For this, you first and foremost need to set the name servers for your domain to the name servers of Freenom.

You do this by:

Go to My Domains Click on Manage Domain Click on Management Tools Click on Nameservers Select Use default nameservers

Press Change Nameservers DONE!

STEP 2

Now you can setup your DNS records, by going to the Manage Freenom DNS area.

You do this by: Go to My Domains Click on Manage Domain Manage Freenom DNS

Now you can enter a variety of different DNS records, including A, MX and CNAME records.

Extra remarks:

• You can use the 'name' field blank if you want to assign a DNS record (like A record) to your entire domain

• For MX records, you need to add a priority. Simply type in '10' (without quotes) in that field if you only have one mail exchange (MX) server for your domain.

It will take normally up to 30 minutes before name server changes are distributed within our DNS servers.

Thank you for using Freenom

Freenom Support

[treasuretron]

When I input a blank CNAME record to na-west1.surge.sh I get the error Error occured: CNAME records should have a name set!

I tried setting an A record to 45.55.110.124 but am getting project not found on surge.

The silly thing is, I already have 2 freenom domains hosted successfully on surge and they have a blank CNAME pointed at na-west1.surge.sh. I'm not sure how I did it though!

[AvMu]

Following as directed in Extra remarks.

--> name field left blank while adding (A record) works fine. --xx--> name field populated with [my domain name] and with priority 10 throws error

Error occured: CNAME records should have a name set!

fixed it by leaving the name field blank and adding [my domain name] in values with priority 10 help sourced from here