Recommended resource to understand Internet conventions IPs, CNAMES, *, MX etc
- by Petras
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:
Plus I was told I had to complete zones at my domain host:
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?