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Web Apps

Introduction

"Web apps" are services which allow their customers to use their own domain, that is to associate their domain with their web app account. Many online services, such as blogging and email platforms, offer their users the option to use their own domain.

Web Apps Offered at HEXONET

Connecting Domains

Anyone can add a connection using the "UpdateDNSZone" command.

In general, the command will contain one or more of the following elements:

An X-ALIAS-<RR> record: this will copy the relevant DNS settings from a reference zone to the desired zone set in the command. Your zone will be automatically updated accordingly if there are any changes to the reference zone. You can learn more about the X-ALIAS-<RR> system (alias xDNS record sets) [here].

Custom resource record(s): these will be specific to the web app, and may or may not differ for each customer using that web app. For example, a web app provider may specify a random CNAME host/destination to be used by a customer when connecting their domain.

A redirect record: this will redirect the 'www' site to the root domain. E.g. http://www.mydomain.com will resolve to http://mydomain.com.

X-ALIAS-<RR> Records have the following syntax:

yourdomain.com. <TTL> IN X-ALIAS-<RR> <REFERENCE-DNS-ZONE>

PLEASE NOTE: The secluding dot after the domain name (www.yourdomain.com.) is required in any case!

X-ALIAS-<RR> Examples

yourdomain.com. 3600 IN X-ALIAS-A zenfolio.webapp.ispapi.net.

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 === Introduction ===
-"Web apps" are services which allow their customers to use their own domain, that is to associate their domain with their web app account. Many online services, such as blogging and email platforms, offer their users the option to use their own domain
+"Web apps" are services which allow their customers to use their own domain, that is to associate their domain with their web app account. Many online services, such as blogging and email platforms, offer their users the option to use their own domain.
+=== Web Apps Offered at HEXONET ===
-A web app is a service with which you can use
-To connect a web app to a domain
-You can use any of them to have all respective records of the reference zone copied over to your zone. Any changes to the respective records of the reference zone will be constantly monitored and your zone will be automatically updated accordingly if there are any changes. No additional lookups are made when your zone is queried so this is the high performance solution if you want to manage only one dedicated authoritative DNS zone but utilize the respective A, AAAA, MX or TXT records for as many other DNS zones as needed.
+=== Connecting Domains ===
+Anyone can add a connection using the "UpdateDNSZone" command.
+In general, the command will contain one or more of the following elements:
+* An X-ALIAS-<RR> record: this will copy the relevant DNS settings from a reference zone to the desired zone set in the command. Your zone will be automatically updated accordingly if there are any changes to the reference zone. You can learn more about the X-ALIAS-<RR> system (alias xDNS record sets) [[https://wiki.hexonet.net/wiki/XDNS:X_ALIAS_RR here]].
+* Custom resource record(s): these will be specific to the web app, and may or may not differ for each customer using that web app. For example, a web app provider may specify a random CNAME host/destination to be used by a customer when connecting their domain.
+* A redirect record: this will redirect the 'www' site to the root domain. E.g. http://www.mydomain.com will resolve to http://mydomain.com.
-PLEASE NOTE: If you set a  X-ALIAS-<RR> xDNS record for your zone then all previously existing resource records of the same type and  will be removed and then the respective RRs from the reference dns zone will be set.
 X-ALIAS-<RR> Records have the following syntax:

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