Tag: DNS

Setting up your own private nameservers on a cPanel server has many benefits, most importantly enabling all of cPanel’s built-in DNS tools which can make DNS changes much easier.

Are you unable to connect to your server to send and receive email, log into cPanel or WHM, or make an FTP or SSH connection?

Using Liquid Web’s name servers to manage DNS for your domains has never been easier. You can quickly add your domain to our nameservers using your my.liquidweb.com account.

Many times when a website is “down,” it is unable to be found by DNS. If you are trying to troubleshoot DNS errors, or trying to understand a DNS error you have encountered, this is right where you should be.

MX (Mail eXchanger) records are like an address for your domain’s email. The MX record tells the rest of the internet where to send your email.

Traceroute is an application that traces the path data takes from one computer to another. Basically a traceroute is a map that shows what stops or locations that data must pass through in order to go from one computer to another.

The dig command is a command that is used for querying DNS name servers for information about host addresses, mail exchanges, name servers, and related information.