DNS Records

Overview

Closte support following DNS record types:

    • A
    • AAAA
    • CNAME
    • MX
    • PTR
    • SRV
    • TXT
    • CAA.

A DNS record always has 3 parameters, that is a hostname, TTL and value/s. After any DNS record change, you may need to wait a few hours for the DNS propagation.

How to add or edit a DNS record

Go to DNS->DNS Zone page and click on the Add Record or edit button on some existing record. In the examples section below, you can also find how to add any DNS record that our system warns you.

Add new DNS record

Hostname for all type of records

Some services may ask you to add ‘@’ character as a hostname known as naked domain hostname but in our system adding a record with ‘@’ or empty hostname is the same use case.

TTL for all type of records

Time-to-live is an optional field with 14400 seconds (4 hours) as the default value.

A record

  • Value Format: IPv4 address, for example, 127.0.0.01
  • Can have multiple values: Yes

AAAA record

  • Value Format: IPv6 address, for example, 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334
  • Can have multiple values: Yes

CNAME record

  • Value Format: hostname, for example, closte.com
  • Can have multiple values: No

MX record

  • Value Format: priority & hostname, for example, 5 mail.closte.com
  • Can have multiple values: Yes

PTR record

  • Value Format: hostname, for example, closte.com
  • Can have multiple values: Yes

SRV record

  • Value Format: priority weight port SIP, for example, 0 0 5061 sip.closte.com.
  • Can have multiple values: Yes

TXT record

  • Value Format: value
  • Can have multiple values: Yes

CAA record

  • Value Format: flag tag “value”, for example, 0 issue “letsencrypt.org”
  • Can have multiple values: Yes

Examples

Naked domain hostname

Hostname: wp-cdn.net
Type: A
Value: 127.0.0.1
TTL: 14400

WWW hostname

Hostname: www.wp-cdn.net
Type: A
Value: 127.0.0.1
TTL: 14400

Wildcard hostname

Hostname: *.wp-cdn.net
Type: A
Value: 127.0.0.1
TTL: 14400

SPF record

Hostname: wp-cdn.net
Type: TXT
Value: v=spf1 a mx include:wp-smtp.closte.com ~all
TTL: 14400

DKIM record

Hostname: pic._domainkey.wp-cdn.net
Type: TXT
Value: Copy
TTL: 14400

MX records

Hostname: wp-cdn.net
Type: MX
Value: priority: 1, server: aspmx.l.google.com
Value: priority: 5, server: alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Value: priority: 5, server: alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
Value: priority: 10, server: alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
Value: priority: 10, server: alt4.aspmx.l.google.com
TTL: 14400

Known error messages

  1. Duplicate or invalid value: Either you are trying to add DNS record that already exists or the value/s are not the right formats.
  2. Adding a very long value: This usually happens, for example when you are trying to add DKIM validation record with a very long value, more than 255 characters, that need to be split into multiple smaller than 255 characters strings.

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