How to change Aname ?

james2002 · Jun 21, 2009

I have been asked by a domainer to change "Aname " of my domain to test the unique visitors himself.

He gave the number like 234.234.23.23 (example) .

I don't know how to change it. How is it different from ns1... or ns2.... etc...?

tonyfloyd · Jun 21, 2009

thru your registrar....u need to remove the nameservers u currently have for those domains...and use their dns with the "A" name and the ip they gave u.....

easy solution...call your registrar..

james2002 · Jun 21, 2009

How is it more important compared with name servers like ns1 or ns2 ?

south · Jun 21, 2009

james2002 said:
How is it more important compared with name servers like ns1 or ns2 ?

Actually it is done at the dns server. In a nutshell, and I might be slightly off here: An A record is a name record for your domain. You can have multiple A records, such as mail.domain.com, subdomain.domain.com, etc. You also can have other types of records, such as MX (mail exchanger for email servers), PTR (Reverse DNS pointer record), etc. By pointing the A record, this would allow you to send the web traffic to the testers server without necessarily having to point your email, subdomains, etc to them.