{"id":672,"date":"2019-03-12T10:19:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/?p=672"},"modified":"2019-03-12T10:20:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:20:36","slug":"dns-records-and-godaddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/miscellaneous\/dns-records-and-godaddy\/","title":{"rendered":"DNS Records and Godaddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why Godaddy have to make things difficult by trying to be simple (different).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Whenever the main domain needs to be referred @ is needed and a must. I had used &#8220;domian.com.&#8221; but it didn&#8217;t work &#8211; the DNS records were not propagating<\/li>\n<li>Where there is a subdomain, the domain should not be a part of the Host Entry &#8211; that is a must. For example &#8211; &#8220;<em>mail.domain.com.&#8221;<\/em> should be written as &#8220;<em>mail<\/em>&#8221; only.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly when referring to the main domain @ is needed<\/li>\n<li>For reference below are some examples<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<pre class='wp-code-highlight prettyprint'>a \t@ \t17x.xxx.xxx.xx5\r\na \tmail \t17x.xxx.xxx.xx5\r\ncname \twww \t@\r\nmx \t@ \tmail.gxxxxxxxxxxxxxl.com (Priority: 10)\r\ntxt \t@ \tv=spf1 mx a ~all\r\ntxt \t_dmarc \tv=DMARC1; p=quarantine  # the <em>quarantine<\/em> or <em>reject<\/em> is needed.\r\ntxt \tdefault._domainkey \tv=DKIM1; t=s; p=MIxxxxxxxxxxxxw0xxQE\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It needs the name of two nameservers with the same domain name for setting custom Nameservers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why Godaddy have to make things difficult by trying to be simple (different). Whenever the main domain needs to be referred @ is needed and a must. I had used &#8220;domian.com.&#8221; but it didn&#8217;t work &#8211; the DNS records were not propagating Where there is a subdomain, the domain should not&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/miscellaneous\/dns-records-and-godaddy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DNS Records and Godaddy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,170,167,168,169,171],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-dkim","tag-dmarc","tag-dns-records","tag-dns-settings","tag-godaddy","tag-spf","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolkataonweb.com\/code-bank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}