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Windows Server 2012: Adding A, MX, and CNAME records

Windows Server 2012: Adding A, MX, and CNAME records

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Windows Server 2012: Adding A, MX, and CNAME records

- [Voiceover] Ok, so in the previous video, we put together our Forward Zone and our Reverse Zone. So, if you're jumping directly to this video, and you don't know how we got our zones, it was in the last movie. We're going to go into our landonhotels.com zone, and I'm just going to right-click on that folder. And we're going to create a new host. That's going to be a new A Record, right here. We're not going to create the AAAA, just going to create the A Record. And we're going to use the name mail, because the mail server is one of the first ones we set up on the other zone, why not do that. So we're going to type mail, and when we do, it completes the fully qualified domain name version of that name, right below here, as you can see highlighted in blue. And we're just going to put in the IP address. Because that's properly formatted, it is what it's supposed to be. They're giving us that fantastic preview, I mean, we can see that it's actually got the dot at the end of it, it's…

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