Full range of DNS records?

joej

Does the DNS feature here actually offer a full range of DNS management? or is it just limited to the opalstack centric domain/hosting?

I changed the NS records for my existing domain to the Opalstack NS servers.
But, the range of choices to manage my domain records here seems very limited.

E.g., I'd like to add a CNAME for XXXX in MyDomainHostedAtOpalstack.com to point to someArecord.somewhereElse.com. But ... the UI won't let me enter the XXXX and the target machine A-record-or-FQDN

sean

joej Our dashboard lets you create and manage the following record types:

A
AAAA
CNAME
MX
TXT
SRV

You can create CNAME records for subdomains like www.domain.com but not on apex domains like domain.com. The reasons for this are explained better than I can explain them at:

joej

sean
Thanks but that was not the question.
I read your answer as: No, opalstack dns management only dickers with records related to the local VPN/shared-host you have

The question was:
Can I manage actual, real, proper DNS records?

I just pointed my WHOLE domain to OS' NS servers. Why can't I add "static.joesdomain.com" CNAME pointing to my AWS buckets? or "stream.joesdomain.com" CNAME to "joes.streamingvideo.com" ?

Solution = don't point your DNS records/mgmt to opalstack. Manually configure an external DNS provider to deal with the MX, SRV, TXT, CNAME records ... and ? also mirror the needed records at opalstack? ro its reverse proxy knows how to point the name to the VPN you're paying for ?? <--- thats a question

sean

joej Thanks but that was not the question.

Sorry, my bad. You mentioned "MyDomainHostedAtOpalstack.com" (ie an apex domain) as your example and I mistakenly assumed that was the problem you were running into.

joej Why can't I add "static.joesdomain.com" CNAME pointing to my AWS buckets? or "stream.joesdomain.com" CNAME to "joes.streamingvideo.com" ?

You should be able to do that here as documented, eg:

Add static.joesdomain.com as a new domain at https://my.opalstack.com/domains/.
Click the edit icon for static.joesdomain.com.
Click "Add DNS Record" in the top right corner. A form will pop up.
Select CNAME as the record type and enter the rest of your CNAME details.
Click the green button to save the record.

If you're seeing an error message that says you can't do this then please email support @ opalstack.com to let us know the actual domain you're referring to and we'll then able to sort it out.

joej Solution = don't point your DNS records/mgmt to opalstack. Manually configure an external DNS provider to deal with the MX, SRV, TXT, CNAME records ... and ? also mirror the needed records at opalstack? ro its reverse proxy knows how to point the name to the VPN you're paying for ?? <--- thats a question

If you're using external NS then there's no need to mirror your DNS records here. The only DNS records that matter are those that are published by your domain's NS.

joej

sean

Add Record, CNAME gives the "Type:CNAME, Content:____, TTL:3600" choices (form).
Adding "leopard" doesn't work.
Adding "leopard.joesdomain.com" does work.
But, still no way to point that leopard.joesdomain.com to the target FQDN.

Specifically, we have machines on a Spectrum Internet business link (few statics). So, the ip resolves to 071-067-nnn-nnn.biz.spectrum.com

How to get leopard.joesdomain.com pointed to 071-067-nnn-nnn.biz.spectrum.com?

joej

Sweet! -- I'll try that now!
Thanks

sean

joej It seems to me like you're clicking the edit icon on "joesdomain.com" and then trying to add the CNAME to that. That is not what I described.

Try this:

Go to https://my.opalstack.com/domains/.
Click "Add your domain" at the top right.
Add leopard.joesdomain.com as a completely new domain.
Click the edit icon for leopard.joesdomain.com.
Click "Add DNS Record" in the top right corner. A form will pop up.
Select CNAME as the record type.
Enter 071-067-nnn-nnn.biz.spectrum.com as the CNAME content.
Click the green button on the form to save the record.

joej

I'll try moving another of my domains over to opalstack, to also test with.