Managing your DNS Records Using Power DNS in MyExeculink

Follow these steps to manage your DNS records in MyExeculink:

• Access your domain via MyExeculink 
• Click on services and then click on “Domain Management”  
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• Click on the domain that is managed by Execulink (i.e. Name servers points to Execulink name servers).
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• Click on Manage DNS and you should be able to see the domain zone file as represented in the below picture. Note: Shown domain zone file is Execulink’s test domain’s default zone file. 
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Note: You cannot EDIT/ADD Name Servers. To do so, please follow the steps here.

Adding/Updating DNS Record 

• Record Name: Could include things such as root domain or a subdomain.  
  • If adding DNS record for the subdomain, enter @ 
  • If adding subdomain, enter the for example, in www.example.com, WWW is the subdomain and should be entered here. 

• Record Type: Select from the dropdown list of options:
  • A
  • AAAA
  • CNAME
  • TXT
  • MX
  • SRV

• TTL (Time to Live): Select the value from dropdown menu, Default value is “1 hour ~ 3600 Seconds”
  • 1 min ~ 60 Seconds
  • 5 min ~ 300 Seconds
  • 30 min ~ 1800 Seconds
  • 1 hour ~ 3600 Seconds
  • 24 hours ~ 86,400 Seconds
• Content: The unique information for the DNS record such as an IP address/plain text, or a string of characters in quotes.
  • For detailed information regarding formatting, please click here for support articles. 

• Click on “Add DNS Record” 
  • Example after simply adding a record:
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• You should be able to EDIT/DELETE the existing DNS records as per your convenience. 
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  • Once the changes are made, click “save” to save the changes. 

Downloading DNS Zone File 

• Click on “Export DNS” in the middle right corner and it should download the zone file in .txt format. 
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Search the DNS Record 

• In case there are ample DNS records, you can simply search the DNS record via the search tool. 
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DNS Management History

• To view your history of a domain name, click on “history” on the left corner and expand. 

• As seen in the above picture you can see “failed” and “success” DNS entries. 

• Click on “view” to check out detailed output.