Networking DNS

Web Hosting can be a little ackward, many web providers have vendor-specific methods of setting up a website.

• purchase a domain with a domain-name registrar
• configure the DNS nameservers used by your registrar
• configure the DNS records registered with the nameserver

Documentation

digitalocean tutorial

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/dns/how-to/manage-records/

Tutorials

Encrypted DNS

https://www.nsa.gov/News-Features/Feature-Stories/Article-View/Article/2471956/nsa-recommends-how-enterprises-can-securely-adopt-encrypted-dns/

DNS Services

208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220

opendns

DNS Records

A	ipv4	address-space before domain (ipv4). @ indicates no pre-address space	http://test.domain.com
AAAA	ipv6	address-space before domain (ipv6). @ indicates no pre-address space	http://test.domain.com
CNAME	subdomain-aliases	By default, your address is http(s):// only. if you want users to be able to reach your site using www, you'll need to create a CNAME record.	http://www.domain.com
NS	DNS server to use	Indicates a DNS server that is aware of your webserver. your domain-name-registrar may provide this, or if you are using a webservice like digitalocean, they may provide their own DNS servers. (after changing NS records, you'll need to wait up to 72 hours for updates to propagate across all nameservers).
MX	email
TXT
SRV

Notes

dns basics

hosting a website with DNS

mdns