DNS & Hosting...

Calzor Suzay · 16 Nov 2009 at 16:55

Can anyone help...

I have registered a domain name with provider A who allows me to do full DNS, Cname, MX record changes etc.
I have a hosting company provider B who I can store a gazillion web pages on etc.

I've configured provider A MX records to go google and the cname entries for google apps but how and what do I do to point Provider A domain name to Provider B hosting?

daz · 16 Nov 2009 at 16:59

You'll need to point the www. A record (and probably the root A record, assuming nothing else is depending on it) to the IP address of the server your site is on (provider B's server).

Calzor Suzay · 16 Nov 2009 at 17:19

Thanks for the quick answer

On Provider A under A records I have
Host Name [enter something here].mydomainname.com
IP Address [enter something here]

On Provider B I poked around the control panel and found Website IP: 11.22.33.44

So on Provider A under the Host Name [enter something here] box I put "www" without quotes and under IP Address I put 11.22.33.44

daz · 16 Nov 2009 at 17:26

Yep - that will point www.yourdomain.com -> 11.22.33.44.

You might want to put a root record in though (you might need to ask your DNS provider about this, different systems have different ways of adding root records) so that people can visit http://yourdomain.com (no www) and still get your website.

Calzor Suzay · 16 Nov 2009 at 17:34

I see what you mean by a root record now, I just tried and I can leave the host name box empty so technically this should work for that.

Time will tell as it updates DNS etc, but hopefully it'll work and thanks

suarve · 16 Nov 2009 at 22:28

daz said:
You'll need to point the www. A record (and probably the root A record, assuming nothing else is depending on it) to the IP address of the server your site is on (provider B's server).

Totally random question, but are you the Darren from tsohost?