DNS

Setting up DNS

The DNS page allows you to setup domains and dns records to be hosted on our nameservers.
This service is limited to A/CNAME/MX/TXT records. If you need more complicated name services you may want to consider running DNS inside of your VPS.

Note: Domain data is published every 5 minutes. Our nameservers are ns1.quantact.com and ns2.quantact.com.

To setup Forward DNS:

To add a new domain, i.e. "test.com", type test.com into the box that is left of the New Domain button. This will create the new domain, so that you may begin populating it with records.

Select the newly created domain, or an existing domain in the domain select box, then begin filling out the fields for the domain record.

A Records:

Fill in Hostname, select A as type, and fill in the IP address in Value. I.e www.test.com A 1.2.3.4 Then click Add New Record.

CNAME Records:

Fill in Hostname for the desired alias, select CNAME as type, and fill in the referenced hostname in Value. I.e www.test.com CNAME test.com You may also use *, i.e. *.test.com CNAME test.com, or use subdomains. Then click Add New Record.

MX Records:

Fill in Hostname for the desired A record, select MX as type, enter an MX value, and fill in the mail domain in Value. I.e mail.test.com MX 10 test.com Make sure there is an A record for mx hostname, as in mail.test.com A 1.2.3.4. Then click Add New Record.

TXT Records:

Fill in Hostname/etc. for the record, select TXT as type, and fill in the TXT record in Value.

I.e test.com TXT v=spf1 +a +mx -all

Then click Add New Record.

Records may be updated or deleted by clicking on their links in the bottom list.

Next is the Reverse DNS Records area. The assigned IP address from Quantact is listed for your VPS. In the field next to that you need to input the hostname of your record.

Setting up for Google:

A popular setup for MX uses Google mail. When setting up your MX records to work with Google, you want them to look like this in your DNS zone file:

test.com.        IN      MX      5        ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
test.com.        IN      MX      5        ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
test.com.        IN      MX      1        ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
test.com.        IN      MX      10       ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
test.com.        IN      MX      10       ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
test.com.        IN      MX      10       ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
test.com.        IN      MX      10       ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.

The system automatically adds a . at the end, so put this value in the QCP record:
ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM (no trailing . at the end)
instead of:
ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.