DNS Manager - Guides

Basics

• Create a Domain: Instructions for adding your domain to Linode’s DNS Manager.

• Manage Domains: View, edit, and manage domains on your account.

• Manage DNS Records: View, edit, and manage DNS records on your domains.

• Configure Your Domain’s Authoritative Name Servers: To use Linode’s DNS Manager for your domain, you must configure the authoritative name server’s on your domain’s registrar.

Additional Management

• Incoming DNS Zone Transfers (Import a Domain): Transfer DNS records from an external DNS service to the Linode DNS Manager, including how to operate a secondary DNS service on Linode through AXFR transfers from an external primary DNS service.

• Outgoing DNS Zone Transfers Domain: Transfer DNS records to another DNS service, including how to maintain a primary DNS service on Linode while supporting AXFR transfers to an external secondary DNS service.

DNS Record Types

• A and AAAA Records

• CNAME Records

• MX Records

• TXT Records

• NS Records

• SOA Record

• SRV Records

• CAA Records

Going Further

• Overview of DNS and DNS Records

• Troubleshooting DNS Records

• Common DNS Configurations

• Configure rDNS (Reverse DNS) on a Compute Instance

Advanced Topics

• Previewing Websites Without DNS

• How to Set Up Cloudflare with Linode

• Use dig to Perform Manual DNS Queries