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Configuring DNS on the User Interface Access Configure > DNS > Servers to create or delete virtual DNS servers and records.To add a new DNS server, click the Create button.To add a new DNS record, from the Configure DNS Records page, click the Add Record button in the lower right portion of the screen.

The 'canonical name' (CNAME) record is used in lieu of an A record, when a domain or subdomain is an alias of another domain. All CNAME records must point to a domain, never to an IP address.

What is a DNS record? DNS records (aka zone files) are instructions that live in authoritative DNS servers and provide information about a domain including what IP address is associated with that domain and how to handle requests for that domain.

What is a DNS A record? The "A" stands for "address" and this is the most fundamental type of DNS record: it indicates the IP address of a given domain. For example, if you pull the DNS records of cloudflare.com, the A record currently returns an IP address of: 104.17. 210.9. A records only hold IPv4 addresses.

An A record maps a domain to the physical IP address of the computer hosting that domain. Internet traffic uses the A record to find the computer hosting your domain's DNS settings. The value of an A record is always an IP address, and multiple A records can be configured for one domain name.

Difference Between A and CNAME An A Record maps a hostname to one or more IP addresses, while the CNAME record maps a hostname to another hostname.

The major advantage of using CNAME is that if we change the IP address of one A record then any CNAME record pointing to that host will also changed. Like if we have a website with highcloud.com then this domain name is hooked up to an A-record which translates the domain name to the appropriate IP address 1.2.