A DNS entry for your domain is necessary to make sure that users can access any portion of your site using your domain name. A DNS entry will link a hard-to-remember computer address (for example 192.168.100.1) and link it to a domain (for example, hostsleuth.com). We need to make sure that we have an entry that joins www.hostsleuth.com to the IP address 192.168.100.1. This can be done quite easily, and will require information from your web host and access to your domain registrar's control panel.
When you have completed your purchase of web hosting, your hosting provider will give you some information about how to access the space that they have allotted for you. Generally, you'll get something that looks like this:
IP: 192.168.100.1
You must first make sure that your domain has a DNS name server and that this IP address has been entered into the name server. Many hosts will provide a name server for you as a part of their hosting packages. When your host provides a name server for you, your welcome email will often contain something that looks like this:
NS1: ns57a.hostsleuth.com
NS2: ns57b.hostsleuth.com
Your host must provide at least 2 name servers, and will often provide 3 or 4. You now need to log into your domain registrar account and go to the page which allows you to set your domain's name servers. Enter the values that your host has provided. Once this has been completed, any request for your domain will be forwarded to your host's DNS server, which will convert (in our example) www.hostsleuth.com to 192.168.100.1, which will allow someone using a browser to connect to your host's web server and receive your site's pages.
Keep in mind that all of the numbers and addresses in this example are fictional. You will have to substitute your own name server addresses and your own domain for this to work with your site.
When you have completed your purchase of web hosting, your hosting provider will give you some information about how to access the space that they have allotted for you. Generally, you'll get something that looks like this:
IP: 192.168.100.1
You must first make sure that your domain has a DNS name server and that this IP address has been entered into the name server. Many hosts will provide a name server for you as a part of their hosting packages. When your host provides a name server for you, your welcome email will often contain something that looks like this:
NS1: ns57a.hostsleuth.com
NS2: ns57b.hostsleuth.com
Your host must provide at least 2 name servers, and will often provide 3 or 4. You now need to log into your domain registrar account and go to the page which allows you to set your domain's name servers. Enter the values that your host has provided. Once this has been completed, any request for your domain will be forwarded to your host's DNS server, which will convert (in our example) www.hostsleuth.com to 192.168.100.1, which will allow someone using a browser to connect to your host's web server and receive your site's pages.
Keep in mind that all of the numbers and addresses in this example are fictional. You will have to substitute your own name server addresses and your own domain for this to work with your site.