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What is an A Record?
An A-record (address record) maps a hostname to an
IP Address.
For example you may want to add an A-record for the hostname "www" and IP address 217.28.124.132 so
that www.yourdomain.com resolves to the IP address 217.28.124.132 where your website is hosted.
What is an MX record?
An MX record comprises a FQDN and a priority. The priority is simply a number which is used to choose which
mail server to use if multiple MX records exist for a domain name. A mail server trying to send an email to you
will always try the lowest number priority first.
Additionally an MX record has a host name to allow email addresses with subdomains. The hostname is
usually left blank to specify the mail server for the domain name on its own.
If you have a mail server at mail.somemailserver.com and you want to add this for your domain name
mydomain.com, you would add an MX record with a blank hostname, an FQDN of mail.somemailserver.com,
and a priority, e.g. 10.
This record would mean that any emails addressed to @mydomain.com would be delivered to the server at
mail.somemailserver.com.
If you had a backup mail server that you only wanted mail delivered to in case of a problem with your main
mail server, you would add another MX record with an FQDN of mail.someothermailserver.com and a higher
priority number( e.g. 20.)
This record would mean that any emails that were addressed to @mydomain.com which could not be delivered
to the server at mail.somemailserver.com would be delivered to the server at mail.someothermailserver.com.
Adding a hostname into the MX record simply means that you are specifying the mail servers for a subdomain.
For example adding an MX record for hostname "london", FQDN mail.mylondonmailserver.com with priority 10
would mean that any emails addressed to @london.mydomain.com would be delivered to the mail server
mail.mylondonmailserver.com. It would not affect any emails addressed to @mydomain.com.
decide that you want your own name server (myns.mydomain.com), for which you have already added an Arecord, to look after the DNS for a subdomain on your domain: extranet.mydomain.com.
To do this, you would add an NS record for hostname/Zone "extranet" with the name server address
"myns.mydomain.com". If someone therefore wants any DNS information about extranet.mydomain.com, our
Domainmonster.com name servers will send them in the direction of the server at myns.mydomain.com.