DNS Settings

Point DNS to Sitemason

DNS is the addressing system of the Internet. It's how a person on a computer in Cairo can find the website you update in Nashville. Like with any hosting company, it's generally easier if Sitemason hosts your DNS along with your website. To point DNS to Sitemason, login to your registrar where you registered your domain (Network Solutions, GoDaddy, etc). You must set your domain's Name Servers to the following:

Primary: ns1.sitemason.com
Secondary: ns2.sitemason.com

If you are unsure of what all this means, don't fret. It's one of the more complicated processes of setting up a website. Luckily, our support folks are always here to help. Just give us a call or email and we'll walk you through the process.

Managing Your Own DNS

Sometimes an organization chooses to either manage or host it's own DNS. When that's the case, there are some extra steps required to point their website to the right place. Here are the DNS changes that'll allow you to point to Sitemason's hosting:

Update the WWW entry to the CNAME of web.sitemasonhost.com
Point the domain entry itself to 174.129.247.223

The end result of a public lookup should return:

    www                               IN      CNAME       web.sitemasonhost.com.

    YOURDOMAIN.com.           IN      A                 174.129.247.223

Note: A domain's main A record can only point to one IP address. Since we use multiple web servers for your site, we have that address redirect people to the WWW subdomain, that does resolve to multiple addresses. Changes may take 4-6 hours to propagate across the web.