DNS Issues

Ziycon

Having issues setting up some DNS entries, below is what I have to date.

example.com A 192.168.0.1
web01.example.com A 192.168.0.2

www.example.com CNAME web01.example.com
mail.example.com CNAME example.com

example.com MX example.com

If I tracert www.example.com is comes up as 192.168.0.2 which is correct but when I tracert example.com it comes up as 192.168.0.1.

I need to keep the MX record as is.

All HTTP and HTTPS traffic should got to 192.168.0.2 but at present only www.example.com is, anyone any suggestions?

Singer

It sounds like you need to set the A record for example.com to 192.168.0.2 (currently 192.168.0.1)

Ziycon

Singer wrote: »

It sounds like you need to set the A record for example.com to 192.168.0.2 (currently 192.168.0.1)

That would then break the MX record, which I want to keep as is.

Singer

Ziycon wrote: »

That would then break the MX record, which I want to keep as is.

Create something like mail.example.com and point the MX at that.

mneylon

The MX record can be *anything* - it doesn't have to even include the domain name for which it's being used.

So you can safely create:
thing.domain.tld as an A record
then set it as MX record for the domain you're having issues with

Ziycon

Got it sorted, thanks for the help folks.