Comment on What to do after getting a domain name?
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 6 days ago
Do you have a static IP? Just point your domain to that. I only have A- MX- and CNAME-record. A is for the numerical IP. MX is for mail, I don’t use it. CNAME is for subdomains afaics (currently only contains www).
All fields are comma-separated lists.
NS stuff is for if you’re running a nameserver and I never even looked into it.
tburkhol@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
A records return the numerical address of a name.
CNAME returns a different name for a name. Basically ‘synonym’ so the maintainer only has to change the one master, A record when the IP address changes. Convenient to use CNAME to point www.example.com to example.com, but you can use it just as well to point example.com at my.private.host.xyz You can even chain multiple CNAMEs to make it easier to manage a complex backend structure while presenting a simple address to users.