Record Types Explanation
| Record Type | Type Explanation | Requirements for Record Value Formats |
|---|---|---|
| A record | Points a domain name to an IPv4 address, and supports wildcard resolution. | Dotted decimal IPv4 address, such as 192.168.1.2. Multiple input is supported. |
| CNAME record | Points a domain name to another domain name, achieving the same access effect as the pointed domain name. | Domain name format. Supports English characters (case insensitive), numbers, ”.”, ”-” and other characters |
| MX record | Establishes an email service. Points to the domain name of the mail server. | Format is: [priority] [host-name]. Priority’s value range is 0-65,535. The smaller the value, the higher the priority; host-name is a domain name, corresponding to the address of the mail server |
| TXT record | Can be filled in arbitrarily, or left blank. Generally used for some verification records, such as: doing SPF (anti-spam mail) records | Text length does not exceed 255 bytes |
| AAAA record | Points a domain name to an IPv6 address, and supports wildcard resolution. | IPv6 address, such as ff03:0:0:0:0:0:0:c1. Supports the addition of multiple |
| SRV record | Will be added when adding service records of servers. Records what services are provided by a certain server. | The format is [priority] [weight] [port] [host-name]. Piority’s value range is 0-65,535; weight’s value range is 1-65,535; port is the service port number, with a value range of 0-65,535; host-name is a domain name. Supports newline entry of multiple, such as “1 1 5,000 aserver.test.com |
| PTR record | Implements reverse resolution from IP to domain names | Domain name format. Supports English characters (not case sensitive), numbers, ”.”, ”-” and other characters |