# DNS Settings, MX Records, CName, etc | webally.co.za

By

Charl Cronje

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Published 2022-06-07

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The server where your domain's DNS Records are hosted, they usually look something like this:

• ns11.domaincontrol.com
• ns12.domaincontrol.com

or

jeff.ns.cloudflare.com anne.ns.cloudflare.com

These records a few fields

• IP Address
• Domain Name
• TTL - Time to live (How long the records will stay cached)

So basically for each domain there is a correspondingly IP Address for the server it is pointing to

This stands for mail Exchange Records, there are 2 - 5 Records for these

They can look something like this for Google Suite for example:

• aspmx.l.google.com
• alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
• alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
• alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
• alt4.aspmx.l.google.com

There are also a few fields

• TTL (Time to live)
• Name
• IP Address
• Priority

• The cname records are redirects
• Wildcard * is the wildcard and you can point
• *.devserv.com to devserv.com, all undefined sub-domains will point to the main domain

This can be any data, can be used to verify the domain

• MX Toolbox