ebook - DNS administration
The SliceManager DNS panel allows for powerful management of your domains' DNS records with the easy to use interface.
Learn how to add DNS zones and configure individual A, CNAME and MX records along with much more.
Latest Version
Any changes to the DNS administration process will be shown in the latest ebook version:
DNS Administration - v1.0.1.pdf
Please see below for a changelog between versions.
Changelog
v1.0.1 - April 2008
Fixed a broken link
v1.0 - April 2008
Initial ebook release
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Article Comments:
katy lavallee commented Fri Apr 18 15:42:24 UTC 2008 ago:
I'm accustomed to having more than one domain point to my server's IP and being able to assign A record subdomains by domain + IP.
It seems with Slicehost I would have to use CNAME records for subdomains if I have more than one domain pointing to one slice's IP. Is this correct?
PickledOnion commented Fri Apr 18 17:59:42 UTC 2008 ago:
Hi Katy,
I must admit I don't understand your question.
You can have as many A records and as many zones as you want pointing to your Slice IP - I am not sure why you would think you can't?
Can you clarify what you mean?
PickledOnion
katy lavallee commented Fri Apr 18 22:20:25 UTC 2008 ago:
In the screenshot where you are setting up a subdomain, there's no place to enter the domain which the subdomain applies to. There's only a place for subdomain and IP. So, I assumed you could only set it up for one domain. If you have multiple domains, how would you specify which domain the subdomain applies to?
PickledOnion commented Fri Apr 18 22:29:15 UTC 2008 ago:
Hi Katy,
Each domain has a DNS zone (see page 4 - creating a DNS zone).
Once a DNS zone has been created it is for that domain name only. So you can add the subdomain 'www' or 'blog' and it is for the DNS zone (i.e. for that domain) only.
Adding a second domain would require a second DNS zone to be created. Any DNS records in that DNS zone would relate to that zone (domain) only.
Adding a third domain requires a third zone, etc.
So each DNS zone can have 'www' defined and all pointing to the same IP address (your Slice) but each 'www' relates to that zone (i.e. that domain name) only.
I hope that helps but the basic premise is that a DNS zone has the records for a single domain - it holds the DNS records for that domain only.
PickledOnion
Jeff O'Hara commented Fri Jun 20 03:34:32 UTC 2008 ago:
You may want to update the domain e-book and switch domain.com to example.com as stated in RFC 2606. See http://example.com for a link to rfc 2606. You shouldn't use other people's domains in documentation, that is what example.com is reserved for.
Just my 2 cents :)