Category Archives: DNS

How to add CNAME Record through domain control panel

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Tom

The first thing you’ll need to do to add a CNAME Record is to make sure that you are using HostOnNet.com’s default nameservers (ns1.hostonnet.com, ns2.hostonnet.com, ns3.hostonnet.com and ns4.hostonnet.com). If you don’t know how to do this, refer the tutorial here

How to add a MX Record in cPanel using DNS Zone Editor?

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Mini Soji

Log in to the your cPanel. In the “Domains” section, click on the “Zone Editor” Icon. Select the domain where you need to change the MX records and then click on +MX Record. Enter the Priority and Destination settings into

What is a CNAME record?

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Mini Soji

The CNAME record is also known as canonical name record. It is used for specifying that a domain name is an alias for another domain, the “canonical” domain. The CNAME Record is used only for subdomains. You can’t add any

Flush Cache with Google Public DNS

Posted on February 14, 2017 by admin

I have been using Google Public DNS as my DNS revolvers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 Since google have peering with most ISP, it did work very well so far. When is using ISP provided DNS servers, it used it go down once

How to Change Document Root of Website Using .htaccess

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Annie

By default the document root of website on a cPanel server is /home/username/public_html . At the time anyone search a domain from there own end the site displays the index page from default location. That means from public_html folder. Here

Using host command

Posted on October 16, 2011 by admin

host command is used for dns lookup To see MX records used by hostonnet.com, run Example To see MX and A records, run Example

Public DNS Servers

Posted on June 4, 2009 by admin

if your ISP have problem with DNS, you can use public dns for name resolution. Google Public DNS (Recommended) 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ Level 3 Communications 4.2.2.2 4.2.2.4 4.2.2.6 OpenDNS.com 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 To add DNS server, take property of your LAN

Open DNS servers

Posted on February 13, 2007 by flashweb

When check domain at dnsreport, it show warning ERROR: One or more of your nameservers reports that it is an open DNS server. This can be fixed by editing /etc/named.conf The default “options” will be options { directory “/var/named”; dump-file

lame server resolving

Posted on February 2, 2007 by flashweb

On Cpanel server, found following error on /var/log/messages Jan 29 15:15:50 server36 named[17870]: lame server resolving ‘bizhat.com’ (in ‘bizhat.com’?): 216.32.86.26#53 The problem is caused by some one pointing the domain to the server, but the account is not present in

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