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This is the support site for Andrews & Arnold Ltd, a UK Internet provider. Information on these pages is generally for our customers but may be useful to others, enjoy!
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Whilst internally the internet uses IP addresses, the way people interact with the internet uses names. We use names like www.aa.net.uk to get to a web site, or sales@aa.net.uk to send an email. These names are called host names or domain names (there is no practical difference between the terms). For a web site the first part after the http:// is the domain name, usually starting www. For email the domain name is the bit after the @.
*2001:8b0::2020
*2001:8b0::2021
We also have DoH and DoT servers. See: https://www.aa.net.uk/dns/
Customers may use third party DNS servers if they wish, you can also set DNS server IP addresses on the control pages which we will assign to your router when it connects. See: [[PPP DNS Addresses]]
=Internet Facing DNS Servers=
Once you have a domain you need to have authoritative DNS servers. These are servers which tell the rest of the world what information you have associated with the domain. For example, if you had example.com you might have decided that www.example.com would have an IP address of
==DNS Management==
We have two authoritative DNS servers called primary-dns.co.uk and secondary-dns.co.uk. If you have a DNS service from us you can edit the domain records using a web page on our control pages. There is more information on the control pages about the different types of record you can set up.
=International Domain Names=
We have two other services associated with domains:
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