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Connect a domain to an IP address

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To ensure that a domain name resolves to a website hosted on a server with a specific IP address, you need to link the domain name and the IP address using an A record.

  1. If you do not have a zone yet, create a zone.

  2. Add an A record with your server's IP address.

  3. If the domain is not yet delegated to Selectel NS servers, delegate domain management.

1. Create a zone

A zone is a logical grouping of resource records for a domain and its subdomains.

  1. In the Control panel, on the top menu, click Products and select DNS hosting.

  2. Ensure you are creating the zone in the correct project. You can view the current project above the section menu on the left.

  3. In the Domain zones section, click Add zone.

  4. Enter the DNS zone name — the domain name with a dot, for example example.com.

  5. If you do not need to activate the zone immediately, uncheck the Activate domain zone checkbox. You can activate the zone at any time.

  6. Click Add. NS and SOA resource records will be created automatically in the zone.

2. Add an A record

  1. In the Control panel, on the top menu, click Products and select DNS hosting.

  2. In the Domain zones section, open the zone page.

  3. Click Add. In DNS hosting, resource records are stored in groups—one group contains all resource records of a domain with the same type. For example, the NS record group contains four records pointing to the NS-servers of Selectel.

  4. To create a resource record group for the primary domain (zone name), leave the Group name field empty. For example, if you leave the field empty for the example.com. zone, a record group named example.com.

  5. Select the type of resource records in the group — A.

  6. Enter the TTL or leave the default value. TTL is the time in seconds that a resource entry in the NS server cache is considered up to date and does not need to be re-cached. The TTL of a group applies to all resource records in the group.

  7. Enter the record value — the IP address of the server where the website is located.

  8. Optional: enter a comment — any additional information about the group. The comment will be displayed only in DNS hosting.

  9. Click Add.

  10. Wait for the added resource record group to propagate to the DNS servers. Propagation may take up to 72 hours.

  11. Optional: check the resource records. If the resource records do not appear on the DNS servers after 72 hours, create a ticket.

3. Delegate domain management

To transfer the management of domain resource records to Selectel servers, you must delegate the domain — specify these servers in the domain's NS records.

  1. Go to the control panel of the domain registrar where your domain is registered.
  2. In the NS records, replace the values with the Selectel NS servers: a.ns.selectel.ru, b.ns.selectel.ru, c.ns.selectel.ru, d.ns.selectel.ru. Each server must be specified in a separate record.</g°.
  3. Wait for the NS records to propagate to the DNS servers. Propagation may take up to 72 hours.