Comments on: How To Properly Setup and Configure Godaddy DNS Settings

By: Barney

Barney — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:51:08 +0000

I don’t know , why godaddy has made the things so difficult and complicated. It would have been better to get the domain registered from Google itself for ease.

By: James F

James F — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:14:02 +0000

Thanks man,
youre a life saver. trying to set everything up with heroku and ruby on rails and I never had to do anything but change nameservers before, instead of the actual DNS manager.

Thanks again man!

By: Evan Smith

Evan Smith — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:36:21 +0000

The custom name servers just point to the host’s name servers. I get it.
But, what if you want to create your own cname records to use with Google Apps? How do you make your cname records work?

By: Evan Smith

Evan Smith — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:19:53 +0000

Scott,

This is a new perspective on custom DNS – one that works. One question: I know that many hosting services use one IP address for multiple web sites. I resell hosting, and all the sites that I host are at the same IP address, except those for which I pay for a dedicated IP address. If I point my custom DNS to the host’s DNS IP address, then set a A record to a specific site’s IP address, how does it know which site to point to?
Or am I missing a step somewhere?

Thanks,
Evan

By: woody188

woody188 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:20:26 +0000

Hostgator users might want to adjust the TXT to use:

“v=spf1 a mx ptr include:websitewelcome.com ~all”

Do this particularly if you use their freebie SSL mail servers. This basically says allow the A records, allow the MX records, allow the PTR records, and allow Hostgator’s SSL mail servers.

By: Maneesh Patel

Maneesh Patel — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:22:28 +0000

Thank you for your advice. I did what you said (in the MX Mail Exchanger “points to” entry I tried mail.YOU-DOMAIN-NAME.COM both with and without a leading “www” in YOU-DOMAIN-NAME.COM); however, when e-mail is sent to user@YOU-DOMAIN-NAME.COM delivery fails permanently with the message:

Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 554 554 5.7.1 Relay access denied (state 14).

If it matters, I am running Postfix, and in /etc/postfix/main.cf there is no relayhost specified; line 15 is simply:

relayhost =

Interestingly, my IP address is also assigned the free (but now Google-censored) domain name YOU-DOMAIN-NAME.CO.CC, and e-mail sent to user@YOU-DOMAIN-NAME.CO.CC is delivered.

Any suggestions?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:24:50 +0000

Have not tried but will use as my guide this weekend. Thanks.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:51:25 +0000

I am using Hostgator to host a website and email, with the domain name purchased at Godaddy. I’ve made all of the changes to my Godaddy DNS record outlined in these instructions but am wondering if I need to change the NS records, as well — from Godaddy’s to the ones Hostgator supplies in their welcome email. Do I need to keep Godaddy’s NS records in place?

Great set of instructions! Really helped me out. Thank you!

By: gerg nnud

gerg nnud — Thu, 19 May 2011 02:41:17 +0000

You are a legend Scott. Godaddy’s help pages assume a high level of DNS config knowledge. We host web, mail and DNS ourselves so this not only fixed my issues but confirmed I had set up our local DNS servers correctly. Many thanks.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:05:38 +0000

Thank you worked perfectly.