Peplink Balance_One Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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name to edit. Press

to remove a domain name.

16.3.4 Creating DNS Records

To create new DNS records for a domain, perform the following steps:

From

Network>Inbound Access>DNS Settings

, click

New Domain Name

in the

Domain Name

field.

Then click on the newly created domain name and the following screen will be displayed:

This page is for defining the domain’s

SOA, NS, MX, CNAME, A, TXT, and SRV records. Seven tables

are presented in this page for defining the five types of records.

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16.3.5 SOA Records

Click on the

icon to choose whether to use the pre-defined Default SOA Record and NS Records. If

the option

Use Default SOA and NS Records

is selected, any changes made in the Default SOA/NS

Records will be applied to this domain automatically. Otherwise, select the option

Customize SOA

Record

for this domain to customize this domain's SOA and NS records.

This table displays the current SOA record. When the option

Customize SOA Record for this domain

is

selected, you can click the link

Click here to define SOA record

to create or click on the

Name Server

field to edit the SOA record.

In the SOA record, you have to fill out the fields

Name Server, Name Server IP Address (optional), Email,

Refresh, Retry, Expire, Min Time, and TTL

.

Default values are set for SOA and NS records,



Name Server IP Address (optional):

This is the IP address of the authoritative name server. If

the Balance is the authoritative name server of the domain, this field's value should be the WAN

connection's name server IP address that is registered in the DNS registrar. If this field is entered,

a corresponding A record for the name server will be created automatically. If it is left blank, the

A record for the name server must be created manually.



E-mail

: Defines the E-mail address of the person responsible for this zone.

Note: Format should

be mailbox-name.domain.com, e.g. hostmaster.example.com.

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

Refresh

: Indicates the length of time (in seconds) when the slave will try to refresh the zone from

the master.



Retry

: Defines the duration (in seconds) between retries if the slave (secondary) fails to contact

the master and the R

efresh

(above) has expired.



Expire

: Indicates the time (in seconds) when the zone data is no longer authoritative. This option

applies to Slave DNS servers only.



Min Time

: Is the negative caching time which defines the time (in seconds) after an error record

is cached.



TTL (Time-to-Live)

:

Defines the duration (in seconds) that the record may be cached.

16.3.6 NS Records

The NS Record table shows the NS servers and TTL that correspond to the domain.

The NS record of the name server defined in the SOA record is automatically added here.

To add a new NS record, click the New

NS Records

button in the

NS Records

box. Then the table will

expand to look like the following:

When creating an NS record for the domain itself (not a sub-domain), the

Host

field should be left blank.

Enter a name server host name and its IP address into the corresponding boxes. The host name can be a

non-FQDN (fully qualified domain name) (please be sure that a corresponding A record is created). Click

the

button on the right to finish and to add other Name Servers.

Click the

Save

button to save your changes.

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16.3.7 MX Records

The MX Record table shows the domain’s MX records.

To add a new MX record, click the

New MX

Records

button in the

MX Records

box.

Then the table will expand to look like the following:

When creating an MX record for the domain itself (not a sub-domain), the

Host

field should be left blank.

For each record,

Priority

and

Mail Server

name must be entered.

Priority

typically ranges from 10 to

100.

Smaller numbers have a higher a priority.

After finishing adding MX records, click the

Save

button.

16.3.8 CNAME Records

The CNAME Record table shows

the domain’s

CNAME records. To add a new CNAME record, click the

New CNAME Records

button in the

CNAME Record

box. Then the table will expand to look like the

following:

When creating a CNAME record for the domain itself (not a sub-domain), the Host field should be left

blank.

The wildcard character “*”is supported in the

Host

field. The Reference of ".

domain.name

" will be

returned for every name ending with ".

domain.name

" except names that have their own records.

The

TTL

field tells the time to live of the record in external DNS caches.

16.3.9 A Records

This table shows the A records of the domain name.

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To add an A record, click the

New A Record

button. The following screen will appear:

A record may be automatically added for the SOA records with a Name Server IP Address provided.

A Record

Host Name

This field specifies the A record of this sub-domain to be served by the Peplink Balance.

The wildcard character “*” is supported. The IP addresses of

“

*.domain.name

"

will be

returned for every name ending with

"

.domain.name

"

except names that have their own

records.

TTL

This setting specifies the time to live of this record in external DNS caches.

In order to reflect any dynamic changes on the IP addresses in case of link failure and

recovery, this value should be set to a smaller value.

E.g. 5 secs, 60 secs, etc.

Priority

This option specifies the priority of different connections.

Select the

Default

option to apply the

Default Connection Priority

(refer to the table

shown on the main DNS Settings page) to an A record. To customize priorities, choose

the

Custom

option and a priority selection table will be shown at the bottom.

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