No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world TheOldRepublic @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

Is there a A/MX records tutorial?

Currently I'm running a few servers at my home and I own a domain. I'd like to access those servers from outside my network (right now that happens through a VPN) but I don't know anything about A records and MX records and as I understand, that's what's needed to do this. So would there be a tutorial that explains this like I'm 5 years old?

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A (and AAAA) records store your IP address, while MX record stores a domain for email servers to use.
- So if I want to go to www.mydomain.com/pihole to go to my pi-hole instance, I would create an A record containing the internal IP of pi-hole and an MX one to configure the subdomain (www.mydomain.com/pihole), is that correct?
  
  No, the MX recourd is only for emails, and for the paths (like in your example), it's handled by your server.
  
  Also, the subdomains are subdomain.yourdomain.com.

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