Recommended resource to understand Internet conventions IPs, CNAMES, *, MX etc

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Published on 2010-05-27T05:50:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 6:02 UTC
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I am a programmer who has been creating websites for many years in shared hosting environments.

To make the website live, I logged into where the domain was hosted and updated the name servers. Sometimes I didn’t want POP email so I changed an A record.

I never really understood what this meant but it worked.

Now we have a dedicated server and I have to fill out all this to make it live:

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Plus I was told I had to complete zones at my domain host:

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I would really like to know what all this means.

What is a * record

What is an @

How does the internet work regarding all these conventions?

Is there a good approachable book on this topic?

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