What is a DNS A record?

ClouDNS
1 min readJul 6, 2020

The A Record points your hostname to an IP address. The record A specifies IP address (IPv4) for given host. This is one of the most frequently used records in the DNS Zones.
The dns A record has the following look in your ClouDNS Control Panel:

How to add it?

Go to your Control Panel and click on “Add new record”. Type, as follow:
Type: A
TTL: 1 Hour
Host:
Points to: ip.of.your.website

Support of A records

ClouDNS provides full support for A records for all our dns services including:

How to start managing A records for your domain name?

  1. Open free account from here — free forever
  2. Verify your e-mail address
  3. Log into your control panel
  4. Create new Master DNS from the [add new] button — read more here
  5. Add the A records you need as it is described in this article

Originally published at https://www.cloudns.net.

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Written by ClouDNS

ClouDNS is one of the biggest providers of global Managed DNS services, including GeoDNS, Anycast DNS and DDoS protected DNS.

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