I bought a new domain (let's call it example.com) from a domain provider (let's call it provider.com).
I would like to point the domain to my server. The thing is that the provider automatically created lots of domain records out of the box:
+------------------+-------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| NAME | RECORD TYPE | VALUE |
+------------------+-------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| ipv6.example.com | AAAA | (IPv6 address) |
| example.com | MX | 10 example.com |
| example.com | A | (IPv6 address) |
| example.com | NS | dns.provider.com dns2.provider.com dns3.provider.com |
| example.com | SOA | dns.provider.com admin.provider.com |
| example.com | TXT | "v=spf1 mx a ptr ~all" |
| mail.example.com | CNAME | example.com |
| ftp.example.com | CNAME | example.com |
| www.example.com | CNAME | example.com |
| *.example.com | CNAME | example.com |
+------------------+-------------+------------------------------------------------------+
What I originally wanted to do, was to add a new A
record and 2 CNAME
records for www and subdomains. But with all the records the provider set, I'm not sure which records to touch now.
Generally speaking: which records do I need to change and which not?
More specifically: I assume that I still want to update the A
record to the IPv4 of my server. But what with the AAAA
/ MX
/ NS
/ SOA
records?
And further: what with the mail
and ftp
subdomain entries?