DNS Settings

New direct-only domain (Recommended)

Updox can manage all DNS settings (MX and CERT DNS records) for the entire domain, if it's only going to be used for direct messaging. Simply set the name servers for the domain to:

NS1.DNSDIRECTDNS.COM

NS2.DNSDIRECTDNS.COM

NS3.DNSDIRECTDNS.COM

NS4.DNSDIRECTDNS.COM

How do I know I've configured things correctly?

If the domain you've configured is yourdomaindirect.com then performing the following *nix command should yield the listed results:

 >dig yourdomaindirect.com A +trace
 
 some headers
 a list of root-servers
 
 a list of gtld-servers
 
 yourdomaindirect.com.	172800	IN	NS	ns1.dnsdirectdns.com.
 yourdomaindirect.com.	172800	IN	NS	ns2.dnsdirectdns.com.
 yourdomaindirect.com.	172800	IN	NS	ns3.dnsdirectdns.com.
 yourdomaindirect.com.	172800	IN	NS	ns4.dnsdirectdns.com.

and yourdomaindirect.com should resolve to 74.219.154.215.

Subdomain of existing domain (NOT recommended)

QA

NS [e.g. your.qadirect.domain.com] ns1.dnsdirectdns.com

MX [e.g. your.qadirect.domain.com] updoxqa.com

(A your.qadirect.domain.com 108.246.56.169)

Production

NS [e.g. your.proddirect.domain.com] ns1.dnsdirectdns.com

MX [e.g. your.proddirect.domain.com] direct.myupdox.com

(A your.proddirect.domain.com 74.219.154.215)