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Good day!

I have a problem with configuring DNS record at my hosting. I'm on Resseler level.

We register our domenname DG.kz and hosting to it.
But now it only works on http://www.dg.kz, and not working at http://dg.kz without subdomains.

What I have to do to solve this problem?

Thank you.
 
Seems to be working for me. Try refreshing in your browser.
 
We maked DNS records:

@.dg.kz and *.dg.kz by advice from Internet-sources.

What record is correct? And what is mean?

Thank you.
 
Thank you. I don't have a problem now. But I also want to know about what correct way to make http://dg.kz work properly.

Next time when I register additional domain I have to configure DNS correctly. Please, give me the answer about previous question. If you know.
 
Now we have a problem with www.dg.kz
Here the listing of our dns

* A 66.246.220.75
@ A 66.246.220.75
dg.kz. A 66.246.220.75
ftp A 66.246.220.75
localhost A 127.0.0.1
mail A 66.246.220.75
pop A 66.246.220.75
www A 66.246.220.75

What is incorrect? And what means records
* A 66.246.220.75
@ A 66.246.220.75 ?
 
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Prometheus said:
And what means records
* A 66.246.220.75
@ A 66.246.220.75 ?

* is a wildcard and means everything within your domain will point to the ip-address you assign to it (test.domain.com, blab.domain.com, sub.domain.com, mail.domain.com, etc.)
@ is the hostname itself. If you're configuring dns settings for "domain.com" @ is a replacement for "domain.com".


Prometheus said:
* A 66.246.220.75
@ A 66.246.220.75
dg.kz. A 66.246.220.75
ftp A 66.246.220.75
localhost A 127.0.0.1
mail A 66.246.220.75
pop A 66.246.220.75
www A 66.246.220.75

If using * you don't need to have @, "dg.kz", ftp, mail, pop and www.

I think this will be enough:
* A 66.246.220.75
localhost A 127.0.0.1
 
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sander said:
If using * you don't need to have @, "dg.kz", ftp, mail, pop and www.
Perhaps not, but perhaps you will.

The wildcard character (the "*") will not refer to any hostname part that's already referenced in the zone.

For example, if you have an MX record or a CNAME record pointing to any of those hostname parts, then the "*" won't include them.

This gets a lot of people into a lot of trouble when setting up DNS.

You should use a proper DNS setup as DA does by default, for new domains.

You should only use the "*" for subdomains not set up by DA.

Otherwise you can expect problems.

Jeff
 
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