what is wordpress a record

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  peteholliday · Member · Nov 3, 2010 at 2:33 pm

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  i want to set http://www.mydomain.com to point to my wordpress blog but i don’t know what the a record is for my wordpress!

  i need to make sure that my mail MX stays where it is

  anyone got an idea?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 3, 2010 at 3:54 pm

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  We need the URL of your WordPress.com blog beginning with http to help us give you accurate help.

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  peteholliday · Member · Nov 3, 2010 at 4:27 pm

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  apologies i thought it would display above

  I want to set peterholliday.co.uk to point to

  http://peteholliday.wordpress.com/

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 3, 2010 at 4:56 pm

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  You will need the Domain Mapping upgrade to map your peteholliday.wordpress.com/ : peterholliday.co.uk –

  You will need to change the name-servers at your registrar to point to the WordPress.COM servers first before the Domain Mapping.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

  You will need to get some information from your current host / email provider and make some MX records the below is what I needed to do:

  A mail 255.255.255.255
  MX 10 mail.my-domain.com.

  The format for the MX records are a bit different than some hosts

  Check DNS status for different record types – this should help you see what is happening.
  http://www.whatsmydns.net/

  I hope I remembered everything – good luck- it can take 24 to 72 hours for all the thousands of internet address servers to be updated –