What is a record, MX record, and cname record?

 
What is a record: the (Address) record is used to specify the IP address record corresponding to the Host Name (or domain name. You can direct the website server under this domain name to your web server. You can also set a subdomain name. In general, a record is the IP address of the server, and a record bound to the domain name tells DNS that when you enter the domain name, it directs you to the server corresponding to the record set in DNS. How to add a record, also known as IP point, where users can set a second-level domain name and point to the IP address of their web server, so as to find the server through the domain name to find the corresponding web page function.
 

 
What is MX record: mail route record. You can direct the email server under this domain name to your own mail server, and then you can control all mailbox settings on your own. Do you only need to fill in the title online? The IP address of your server, you can transfer all emails under your domain name to your own email server.
 

  what is a cname record: That is: alias record. This record allows you to map multiple names to the same computer. It is usually used on computers that provide both WWW and mail services. For example, there is a computer named "host.sofavi.com" (a record ). It provides WWW and mail services at the same time, in order to facilitate user access to the service. You can set two aliases (cname) for the computer: WWW and mail. The two aliases are www.sofavi.com and "mail.sofavi.com ". In fact, they all point to "host.sofavi.com ".