What is the DNS management?
With the DNS management (DNS stands for Domain Name System) you can assign a domain to an IP address.
For example, the domain “meinetestdomain.de” is assigned the IP address 1.2.3.4. Due to the fact that the DNS administration is available to you for every domain which you obtain via Plambee.de web hosting, you can, for example, obtain your domain from us and link it to the web space/server of another provider.
Attention: Incorrect DNS entries can disrupt the function of your website and your e-mail account. Please find out beforehand what exactly you want to change and how. Of course, the support team will be happy to help you.
This is how you can make settings
- Log in to your customer account
- Please select “Domains” in the menu or click on “Domains” in your account statistics.
- You will now be taken to a page where all your domains are listed. Please click on “Manage” here
- On the next page, please scroll down and click the button “DNS Management”.
- Now you are in the DNS management, where you can create so-called records or zones. In the Name field, please enter the record name, e.g. the subdomain. Please note that www is also only a subdomain. In the Name field, please enter only the record name, e.g. blog . Please without “.”, just blog. With the field “Registration type” you select the record type. For a normal subdomain this is an “A” (IPv4) or “AAAA” (IPv6). You can see an explanation of the individual types below. In the Address field, please enter the destination address. For an A or AAAA record, this would be the IP address of your target server. The Priority field is only required for mx records.
- After you have entered all records, simply click on “Save changes”. The entries are then sent to the name servers and created there.
If you want to remove existing entries, please click on the corresponding icon.
Please note that it may take several hours for changes to be made in the DNS worldwide. This is due to the DNS system itself, unfortunately we cannot speed up this process.
Record types
In the DNS administration, different record types are available. You can find out what they are good for here:
A-Record
With an A Resource Record, an IPv4 address is assigned to a DNS name. The record name (i.e. the subdomain) is entered in the Name field and the IPv4 address in the Address field. The Priority field remains empty.
AAAA-Record
With an A Resource Record, an IPv6 address is assigned to a DNS name. The record name (i.e. the subdomain) is entered in the Name field and the IPv6 address in the Address field. The Priority field remains empty.
MX-Record
The MX Record is an entry that refers exclusively to the e-mail service. Here you leave the “Name” field blank and enter the mail server in the address field. E.g.: mail.testdomain.de . However, there must be an A record named Mail for testdomain.de. In the Priority field, please enter the priority as a number. The default value is 10, but if you have a second mail server for your domain, it would be given the value 20, for example. The entry with the lower value is preferred.
CNAME
A CNAME is intended to assign another name to a domain. For example, you can assign a CNAME to your Plambee.de subdomain so that your free subdomain can be reached via your domain and is also displayed to visitors in the address bar. The advantage of CNAMES is that you don’t have to do anything if the IP of the server changes. With an A record, you would have to change the IP address at the right time. To create a CNAME, enter e.g. www in the name field. The destination address, i.e. the unwanted address you want to replace, belongs in the address field.
TXT
With a TXT record, a freely definable text can be stored in a DNS zone. This record is used, for example, for Google site verification.
SRV
With an SRV record, you can define which services should be accessible under your domain. SRV records are often used for protocols such as XMPP, SIP or LDAP, but also for Office 365.