How Do I Update A Network Solutions A Record?
How to Update an A Record
- Log in to Account Manger
- Within Account Manager, use the drop down under My Domain Names to choose the domain you’d like to manage and click the Go button
- In the green box, select Change Where Domain Points
- Select Advanced DNS
- Click the Continue button
- If the domain name was not previously pointed to Network Solutions® nameservers (DNS) you will receive a page with messaging regarding this change. If you’d like to continue, click the Move Nameservers to Network Solutions® button
- In the IP Address (A Records) section, click Edit A Records
- Your current A records are listed in editable form, and any Network Solutions® service that is associated with the A record is listed below the Numeric IP text box
- The first three hosts listed are the most common hosts used with domain names:
- www : Points to the specified IP address when Internet users enter an address
- @ (none) : Points to the specified IP address when a user enters just the domain name without anything before it
- * (All Others) : Points any unassociated host for a domain name to the specified IP address, similar to a catch-all feature that could be used for any misspelled host names
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