[Answered] A And Cname Records, Why Some Do Not Work?

[yami]

Hi

 

I hope I am posting in right place.

 

Playing with my cpanel, I was wondering why some of A and CNAME recods looks like working and some not?

 

For example when I try A Record webdisk.yami.us or cpanel.yami.us in browser they redirect to webdisk and cpanel.

 

When I try A Record whm.yami.us, it redirects somewhere that I cannot loging with my heliohost username/password and I have no idea what is it!

 

And finally when I try A Record webmail.yami.us it goes nowhere!

 

I woulf appreciate if someone helps me to understand these stuff

[Shinryuu]

Users don't have access to WHM, that's WebHost Manager, which is the administrative side of cPanel. Webmail would redirect to a cPanel-based email login page, but in your case mail is being handled by Microsoft's hotmail/outlook servers.

[yami]

Honestly I returned to my own mailserver on my host. Microsoft one was not looking like to get OK! Anyway I just need one mail address and it does not matter that much...

 

Would you tell me what is the difference between:

 

a CNAME Record that I made (mail.yami.us) which takes me to my mail server (whether it is microsoft or heliohost) and an A Record (webmail.yami.us) which goes no where when I try it???

 

Sorry if I ask more than what member are supposed to.

[Shinryuu]

It's good to know how DNS works since it's how the internet, as we know it, works. We had an interesting question involving DNS usage just weeks after I joined, the user thenasked about a DNS tutorial when everything got working how he wanted it. Hope it helps.