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Here's what I've got:
1. domain name registered with GoDaddy (mywebsite.com)
2. website hosted through Amazon EC2
3. email goes through gmail
Can someone explain to me how registrars, nameservers, and DNS records are connected?
- I register a domain name with GoDaddy. GoDaddy is the registrar.
- The nameservers are from GoDaddy.
- The GoDaddy DNS Zone file configures how the GoDaddy nameservers respond to requests from browsers, right?
- Inside the zone file:
A(Host): points "mywebsite.com" to the IP address of the Amazon instance that's hosting the website contents.
CName: configures where the subdomains go.
ex. The "www" subdomain gets forwarded to mywebsite.com
ex. The "ftp" subdomain also gets forwarded to mywebsite.com
MX: really fuzzy on this, if someone sends an email to "name@mywebsite.com" the MX entry determines which servers handle this request, right? So I need to configure these to point to Google's servers.
Moved from Programming to Networking -- Programming Moderator Ken g6
1. domain name registered with GoDaddy (mywebsite.com)
2. website hosted through Amazon EC2
3. email goes through gmail
Can someone explain to me how registrars, nameservers, and DNS records are connected?
- I register a domain name with GoDaddy. GoDaddy is the registrar.
- The nameservers are from GoDaddy.
- The GoDaddy DNS Zone file configures how the GoDaddy nameservers respond to requests from browsers, right?
- Inside the zone file:
A(Host): points "mywebsite.com" to the IP address of the Amazon instance that's hosting the website contents.
CName: configures where the subdomains go.
ex. The "www" subdomain gets forwarded to mywebsite.com
ex. The "ftp" subdomain also gets forwarded to mywebsite.com
MX: really fuzzy on this, if someone sends an email to "name@mywebsite.com" the MX entry determines which servers handle this request, right? So I need to configure these to point to Google's servers.
Moved from Programming to Networking -- Programming Moderator Ken g6
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