==== Tutorial of basic features ====

What we want to achieve in this tutorial: We have a domain name, example.com. We want to define the following records:

  * example.com goes to 127.0.0.1 (A record)
  * www.example.com goes to 127.0.0.1 (A record)
  * *.example.com goes to 127.0.0.2 (catch-all A record)
  * example.com has the Google Apps MX records described [[http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33915|here]]. (MX records)
  * mail.example.com is a CNAME to ghs.google.com (CNAME record)

I am assuming you already [[http://dns2.geoscaling.com/?module=register|created]] your account, you [[http://dns2.geoscaling.com/|logged in]], and you are now staring at the New Domain form.

  * Add the domain name in the New Domain form. Please don't use the one I used (example.com), as you will not be able to create it as it already exists in the system. Pick another one. Your domain or another random test domain.
{{add_example_com.png}}
  * Click the newly added domain to go to the Records Page. You should see an empty records table, and several forms below it.
  * Let's add the record for example.com. Write 127.0.0.1 in the edit box labeled content, then click Add record.
{{add_record_example_com.png}}
  * At this point if you have a proper browser you should see the new record in the records table. To test it, please make a direct request to ns1.geoscaling.com for the IP address of example.com. In Linux you can do this with the following command: //dig example.com @ns1.geoscaling.com//. In Windows you can use //nslookup example.com ns1.geoscaling.com// in a command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd).
{{records_table_example_com.png}}
  * Now let's add the www subdomain: Write www in the "name" text box, and 127.0.0.1 in the "content" box. Click add record.
  * Add the catch-all subdomain: * in the "name" box, 127.0.0.2 in the "content" box. Click add.
  * To add an MX record, set the type of the record to MX, write the MX in the content section (for example //ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.//), and set the priority in the priority section, then click Add.
  * Finally let's add the CNAME record. Set the type to CNAME, and write //ghs.google.com// in the content box. Click add.
  * Done. The final results should look like this:
{{complete_example_com.png}}

**You can edit records by clicking inside the Records table on the element you want to change.**