E2E CloudE2E DNS keeps your domain’s records on E2E’s nameservers. You add a domain you already own, add its records, and then point the domain to E2E’s nameservers at your domain registrar. From then on, the records you add in MyAccount are the answers the internet gets for your domain. Buy the domain from a registrar first; E2E hosts domains and does not register or sell them.
DNS is also where you set reverse DNS for your servers: the name an IP address returns when someone looks the address up. A mail server needs it, and you can set it yourself.
You find DNS in MyAccount under Network. Its list page is Manage DNS.
What you can do
Section titled “What you can do”- Add a domain, and see the records E2E creates for it.
- Point your domain to E2E nameservers at your registrar, after you copy over the records it already uses.
- Add a DNS record: an A, AAAA, or CNAME record.
- Set up email records: MX, SPF, and DKIM, with reverse DNS for your mail server.
- Add an SRV record for a service on a known port.
- Edit a DNS record: its value or its TTL.
- Delete a DNS record.
- Delete a domain and every record in it.
- Check your domain with Diagnostics: whether it points to E2E, and whether its TTLs are set well.
- Download a zone file of the domain’s records.
- Set up reverse DNS for a node’s public IP or a reserved IP.
The two lists
Section titled “The two lists”- Manage DNS lists your domains, with Domain Name and IP Address. Open a domain to read and change its records, see it as a zone file, and run Diagnostics on it.
- Manage Reverse DNS lists each address you can set reverse DNS for, with its current name.
A domain’s name is shown with a dot at the end, such as example.com.. The dot marks a complete
name, and it is part of how DNS writes every name.
Nameservers
Section titled “Nameservers”E2E’s two nameservers are:
ns50.e2enetworks.net.inns51.e2enetworks.net.inTo see them in MyAccount, click Nameservers on Manage DNS. Set these two at your registrar in place of the domain’s current nameservers; see Point your domain to E2E nameservers.
Record types
Section titled “Record types”In MyAccount you can add these six record types:
| Type | Use it for |
|---|---|
| A | A name that points to an IPv4 address, such as your website on a node |
| AAAA | A name that points to an IPv6 address |
| CNAME | A name that is an alias for another name, such as shop.example.com for a store |
| MX | The mail servers that receive email for the domain, each with a priority |
| TXT | Text that other services read: SPF and DKIM for email, and domain verification |
| SRV | The server and port for a service, such as a SIP or chat service |
The domain’s SOA and NS records are created for you when you add the domain, and they stay as they are.
Reverse DNS
Section titled “Reverse DNS”Every E2E public IP has a default reverse name, set by E2E. To make an address return your own name,
such as mail.example.com, add a custom reverse DNS record on Manage Reverse DNS. You can do
this for the public IPs of your nodes and for your reserved IPs, IPv4 only. The name first needs an
A record that points to the address, at E2E or at any other DNS provider. See
Set up reverse DNS.
Troubleshooting DNS explains when support sets it for you
instead.
Where to start
Section titled “Where to start”To add your first domain and point it to E2E, follow Get started with DNS. For fixes, see Troubleshooting DNS; for short answers, see DNS FAQ.