The Linode Manager includes a comprehensive DNS management interface. To get started with our DNS Manager, make sure your domain name is set to use our DNS servers. You will need to use your domain name registrar's interface for setting the name servers for your domain to the following entries:
Please allow up to 24 hours for DNS changes to propagate through the Internet, although it may happen much faster. You can use the whois utility from a shell prompt to see if your domain's record has been updated with our nameservers. Once your domain is reporting our nameservers as authoritative, you may log into the Linode Manager and click the "DNS Manager" tab. You'll see an empty zone list:
Click "Add a new domain zone" to begin setting up your domain in our DNS:
Enter the SOA email address (use administrative contact email address for your domain) and accept the default choices for the remaining options:
Several DNS records will be automatically created for your domain. These include a default entry for your domain, A records for "www" and "mail", and an MX record directing mail delivery to "mail.yourdomain.com".
You may now add more records as needed. If you wanted to host a store on your site, you might create an A record for it by clicking on "Add a new A/AAAA Record" and filling in the required fields:
This concludes basic DNS configuration for your domain. If desired, you may also use the Network tab in the Linode Manager to set the reverse DNS entry for your Linode's IP address:
Your entry must be represented by an A record or CNAME in DNS, as shown here:
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Submitted by Kishore on Tuesday, February 16 2010 at 16:04:10 GMT
This information is perfect. Just what I needed. Thanks!
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Submitted by Anonymous Visitor on Wednesday, March 24 2010 at 21:56:31 GMT
I don't see anything about SRV records? Are they supported by linode DNS?
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Submitted by Phil Paradis on Thursday, March 25 2010 at 17:45:00 GMT
@travis - SRV records are supported, although we don't specifically cover them in this document. This should be added in the near future.
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Submitted by Mike on Thursday, April 29 2010 at 02:25:40 GMT
Is there an API for adding / modifying DNS records?
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Submitted by Stan Schwertly on Thursday, May 13 2010 at 09:40:18 GMT
Hi Mike,
Yes, you can read more about our API at: http://www.linode.com/api/index.cfm You'll be particularly interested in our "Domain" and "Domain.Resource" method categories. |
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