Changing a DNS Record's Information
To change a DNS record's information:
- On the site administrator Home page, in the Microsoft DNS area, click list zones. The list of zones is displayed.
- On the zones list, select the zone whose DNS records you want to change, then click list records. The list of records is displayed.
- On the records list, select the record whose information you want to change, then click edit.
- On the edit form, change any of the following fields depending on the type of record you want to change.
- Host (A) Record:
- Alias (CNAME) Record:
- Mail Exchanger (MX) record:
- mail domain. The name of the domain for which the record is being created.
- mail server. The mail server name that maps to the specified domain name.
- mail server priority. A number to designate mail priority among mail servers. The lower the number in the mail server priority field, the higher the priority. If there are two mail servers with the same priority, one of them is randomly chosen.
- Name Server (NS) record:
- name server zone. The name of the sub-domain for which the record is being created.
- fully qualified name of name server. The host name of the DNS server that is authoritative for this sub-domain.
- Click save.