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  1. What is DNS and how to set up directDNS Pro or directDNS Basic?
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  2. What are A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, SRV and TXT (SPF) records?
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  3. How to set up my domain A, CNAME or MX record?
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  4. What is the difference between CNAME and redirection?
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  5. Do you offer Dynamic DNS service?
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  6. Can I use directNIC email service along with directDNS?
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  7. I set my MX record to point to my computer, but I am not getting mail.
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  8. What is a host, host name and host record?
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  9. I did not change any settings, why am I not getting emails anymore?
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  10. Why can't directDNS provide reverse lookups?
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  11. Why would I want to set up CNAMEs instead of A records?
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  12. Why does my domain still points to the old IP after I changed my host record?
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  13. Do you offer Round-Robin distribution?
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  14. I set mydomain.com and mail.mydomain.com as mail servers, but my mails bounced, why?
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  15. Why can't I use directDNS to direct traffic to a specific port number?
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  16. How often are your DNS servers updated with changes I make via your website?
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  17. Will your servers allow other servers to slave/zone transfer my domain from it?
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  18. When I use directDNS, is my domain hosted on multiple (redundant) servers or just one?
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  19. How do I renew the directDNS service for my domain?
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  20. Will directNIC mail servers relay mail to my mail server?
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  21. Why can't I use a private IP address?
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  22. Can I add a CNAME to just the domain by itself?
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