I don't understand how to update my DNS records…

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  jakeslingland · Member · Apr 23, 2013 at 12:01 am

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  Hello,

  I have mapped my blog to a domain at dotster.com. I am having some trouble getting the email address connected to my domain to work. Dotster told me told me that me “Please point MX Record of your domain to mx.dotster.com (66.96.140.50, 66.96.140.51 66.96.140.50) and by contacting DNS provider of your domain. Once the MX records are changed, it takes 1-12 hours to update DNS changes. “
  and “You need to update the MX record of your domain to mx.dotster.com and TXT: v=spf1 ip4:66.96.128.0/18 ?all .”

  Can you please tell me how to enter this information in this format “MX <pref> <host>.
  TXT <text>
  CNAME <subdomain> <host>.
  A <subdomain> <IP>
  SRV <_service._protocol> <priority> <weight> <port> <domain>” so that I can update my DNS records?

  I really appreciate the help.

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  amightywp · Member · Apr 23, 2013 at 8:08 pm

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  Hi there,

  In order to have your MX records pointed towards Dotster, according to the information you sent, you just need to enter the following:

  MX 0 mx.dotster.com

  And then the text record would look like this:

  TXT v=spf1 ip4:66.96.128.0/18 ?all

  Let me know if you need anything else!

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  jakeslingland · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 6:09 am

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  Awesome!!!
  I just tried them out, and they can be saved!!
  I’ll write more if it still doesn’t work after 72, but so far so good!
  Thanks a lot.

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  amightywp · Member · Apr 24, 2013 at 3:42 pm

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  Excellent! I’m so glad it worked out for you!

  Let me know if you need anything else!