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| author | Luke Smith <Luke Smith> | 2022-06-25 10:56:36 -0400 |
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| committer | Luke Smith <Luke Smith> | 2022-06-25 10:56:36 -0400 |
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diff --git a/dns.html b/dns.html deleted file mode 100644 index 9dc09c4..0000000 --- a/dns.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,129 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html lang=en> - <head> - <title>Connect Your Domain and Server with DNS Records – LandChad.net</title> - <meta charset="utf-8"/> - <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> - <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='style.css'> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> - <link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title='Land Chad RSS' href='/rss.xml'> - </head> -<body> - <header><h1>Connect Your Domain and Server with DNS Records</h1></header> - <nav></nav> - <main> - - <h2>The Gist</h2> - <p>Now that we have a <a href=domain.html>domain</a> and a <a href="server.html">server</a>, we can connect the two using DNS records. - DNS (domain name system) records are usually put into your registrar and direct people looking up your website to the server where your website and other things will be. - </p> - - <p> - Get your IPv4/IPv6 addresses from Vultr and put them into A/AAAA records on Epik. - Simple process, takes a minute, but here's a guide with a million images just so you know. - </p> - - <h2>Open up your Registrar</h2> - - <p> - As before, we will be using <a href="https://www.epik.com/?affid=we2ro7sa6">Epik</a> as a registrar and <a href="https://www.vultr.com/?ref=8384069-6G">Vultr</a> as a server host. - Go ahead and log into your accounts on both. - Open up Epik, or your registrar, and click on your domain and then a choice for "DNS records." - This is the screen you'll want to see on Epik. - </p> - - <a href=pix/dns-epik.png><img src="pix/dns-epik.png" alt="Blank Epik DNS records"></a> - - <p> - Note that we are on the "External Hosts (A, AAAA)" tab by default. - Epik sometimes adds records to this page once you buy a domain. - If they did, you can go ahead and delete them so they look clean like the picture above. - </p> - - <p> - <strong>All we have to do now is get our IP addresses from Vultr and add new DNS records that will send connections to our server.</strong> - </p> - - <p> - Keep the Epik tab open and open Vultr and we will copy-and-paste our IP addresses in. - </p> - - <h2>Find your server's IP addresses</h2> - - <p> - Looking at your server in the Vultr menu, you should see a number next to it. - Mine here is <code>104.238.126.105</code> as you can see below the server name (which I have named <code>landchad.net</code> after the domain I will soon attach to it). - That is my <strong>IPv4</strong> address. - </p> - <a href=pix/dns-ipv4.png><img src="pix/dns-ipv4.png" alt="See the IPv4 address?"></a> - - - <p> - Copy your IPv4 address and - on Epik, click the "Add Record" record button and add two A entries pasting in your IPv4 address like I've done for mine here. - </p> - - <a href=pix/dns-ipv4-done.png><img src="pix/dns-ipv4-done.png" alt="IPv4 complete"></a> - - <p> - I add two entries. - One has nothing written in the "Host" section. This will direct connections to <code>landchad.net</code> over IPv4 to our IP address. - The second has a <code>*</code> in the "Host" section. - This will direct connections to all possible subdomains to the right place too, - I mean <code>mail.landchad.net</code> or <code>blog.landchad.net</code> and any other subdomain we might want to add later. - </p> - - - <p> - Now let's get our IPv6 address, which is a little more hidden for some reason. - IPv6 is important because we are running out of IPv4 addresses, so it is highly important to allow connections via IPv6 as it will be standard in the future. - Anyway, now back on Vultr, click on the server name. - </p> - - <p>On the server settings, <strong>click on settings</strong> - and we will see we are on a submenu labeled "IPv4" where we see our IPv4 address again. - </p> - - <a href=pix/dns-vultr.png><img src="pix/dns-vultr.png" alt="Looking for the IPv6"></a> - - <p> - Now just click on the <strong>IPv6</strong> submenu to reveal your IPv6 address. - </p> - - <a href=pix/dns-ipv6.png><img src="pix/dns-ipv6.png" alt="The IPv6 address"></a> - - <p> - That ugly looking sequence of numbers and letters with colons in between (<code>2001:19f0:5:ccc:5400:03ff:fe58:324a</code>) is my <strong>IPv6</strong> address. - Yours will look something like it. - Now let's put it into Epik. - This time, be sure to select to put in AAAA records as below: - </p> - - <a href=pix/dns-ipv6-done.png><img src="pix/dns-ipv6-done.png" alt="IPv6 complete"></a> - - <p> - Now just click "Save Changes." - It might take a minute for the DNS settings to propagate across the internet. - </p> - - <h2>Test it out!</h2> - - <p> - Now we should have our domain name directing to our new server. - We can check by pinging our domain name, check this out: - </p> - - <img src="pix/dns-ping.png" alt="Pinging landchad.net"> - - <p> - As you can see, our ping to <code>landchad.net</code> is now being directed to <code>104.238.128.105</code>. - That means we have successfully set up our DNS records! - You can also run the command <code>host</code> if you have it, which will list both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for a domain name. - </p> - - <span class=prev><a href="server.html">Previous: Get a server.</a></span> - <span class=next><a href="nginx.html">Next: Setting up the Webserver</a></span> - </main> - <footer><a href="https://landchad.net">LandChad.net</a></br>Because Everyone should be an Internet LandChad.</br><a href="index.html"><li><img src="pix/chad.gif" alt="chad"></li></a><a href="rss.xml"><li><img src="pix/rss.svg" alt="RSS"></li></a><a href="donate-bitcoin.html"><li><img src="pix/btc.svg" alt="BTC"></li></a><a href="donate-monero.html"><li><img src="pix/xmr.svg" alt="XMR"></li></a><a href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/landchad"><li><img src="pix/git.svg" alt="Github"></li></a></footer> -</body> -</html> |