DNS Templates

DNS templates are associated with services and used to provision DNS records. Control Panel provides you different DNS templates which you can modify according to your needs. To view/setup DNS templates you have to navigate to the following path:

Navigation: Home » Service Director » DNS Manager » DNS Templates

Note: Existing DNS templates can be modified by simply clicking on Edit link.

Click on Add DNS Template button to create a new DNS template.

Template Title: Title or name for the designated template.
Name: Name of the node to which this record pertains.

Record Type: Select the type of resource record such as NS, A, MX, CName, SRV etc.

NS: Name Server records (NS) state the authoritative name servers for the given domain.
A: Address records (A) that map the name of a machine to its numeric IP address.
MX: MX (Mail eXchanger) resource record identifies the mail server that is responsible for handling e-mails for a given domain name.

MX record must point to hosts defined by A records.
MX record cannot point to IP addresses.

CName: A CNAME record or Canonical Name record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that specifies that the domain name is an alias of another, canonical domain name.

TXT: Text information associated with a domain.

SRV: A Service record (SRV record) is a specification of data in the Domain Name System defining the location, i.e. the hostname and port number, of servers for specified services.

Class: A 16 bit value which defines the protocol family or an instance of the protocol. The normal value is IN = Internet protocol.
Host: Specify IP Address of server where service is provisioned or actual domain name using customization keys.

Click Save button to update changes.