DNS

Records, TTL and propagation — what changes when, and what caches it.

In this category 5 articles

• What each DNS record does

  The eight record types you can add, in the order you are likely to need them.

• Forward a domain to another address

  Sending one name to another site — what DNS can do, what it cannot, and which of the two you need.

• Start using our DNS

  Three steps, in an order that matters: build the zone, check it, then point the domain at it.

• Choosing a TTL

  The number that decides how long the internet remembers an answer you have already changed.

• DNSSEC, and whether you need it

  It signs the answers so a resolver can tell a real one from a forged one. What that fixes, and what it does not.

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