"A" record transfer

We are in the process of getting a new Website that will be hosted offsite. We currently host our on site. Our concern is what to do about still having Outlook Web Access after the new site is active. We ask our designer and he replied w/ the following.

I think that your network tech needs to make a change in your DNS servers at your office to point traffic for the website to the new web server for only web traffic.

This is called an "A" record transfer.

Can anyone help me on how to do an "A" record transfer?

TIA!!

 

A google search for "A record transfer" and DNS returns seven hits: two of them being your posts on this subject to this forum and another forum. So I think we can safely assume that "A record transfer" is not a wide recognised technical term

DNS A records are the fundamental mappings in DNS system. An A record comprises the mapping of a DNS name to an IP address. It will be the A record for your webmail address that tells other systems what IP address they should go to when they see that address.

So say your webmail is at webmail.company.com, and the address is 11.11.11.11. The company.com DNS server will need an A record that behaves like this:

webmail = 11.11.11.11

Therefore ' "A" record transfer' is a b**lsh*t name for "On your new DNS server, create a new A record that maps the DNS name of your webmail service to the IP address of the server that will provide that service. "

 

What we do is setup mail.your-dns-name.com to still remain pointed to your local server and www.your-dns-name.com to be pointed to the off site web server.