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Edit your DNS records

Add, change and delete DNS records for a domain hosted with lbreeze, including MX, TXT, SRV and CAA records, or import a whole zone file.

When lbreeze hosts your domain's DNS, you manage its records in your control panel. Every nameserver we run serves every domain, so a record you add is published by all of them.

Find your records

  • Choose DNS zones and click your domain to see every record in it.
  • Or open a website under My sites and go to its Domains tab. The DNS records card shows only the names that belong to that site, with a link to the Whole zone.

Add a record

  1. On the zone page, find the Add record card.
  2. In Name (@ for apex), type the name in front of your domain, for example www or shop, or @ for the domain itself.
  3. Choose the Type.
  4. Set the TTL (seconds), or leave the suggested value.
  5. Type the Content. The form shows an example and a short explanation for the type you chose.
  6. Click Add record.

If something is wrong, for example a CNAME at @ or an address that is not an address, the form tells you straight away and nothing is published.

Record types

Type Use it for Content looks like
A / AAAA Point a name at an IPv4 / IPv6 address 192.0.2.10
CNAME Make a name an alias of another name. Not allowed at @, and not beside other records target.example.com.
ALIAS An alias at @. Only offered where lbreeze has it switched on, and not in a DNSSEC-signed zone target.example.com.
MX Mail server: priority, then the server's name. Lower priority wins 10 mail.example.com.
TXT Verification codes, SPF and other text. Long values are split for you v=spf1 include:_spf.example.com ~all
NS Hand a subdomain to other nameservers. Your domain's own nameservers are set by lbreeze ns1.example.com.
SRV Service location: priority, weight, port, target 0 5 5060 sip.example.com.
CAA Which certificate authorities may issue certificates for the name 0 issue "letsencrypt.org"
HTTPS / SVCB Service bindings, such as advertising HTTP/3 1 . alpn=h2,h3
TLSA, SSHFP, NAPTR, LOC Certificate pins, SSH host keys, SIP routing, location see the example in the form

End a hostname in the content with a dot, as the examples do, to make it absolute.

Change or delete a record

  • Click edit beside a record, change it, and click Save.
  • Click delete beside a record. The confirmation names the record, so check it is the right one.
  • To change several at once, tick them. A bar appears where you can Set TTL for all of them or delete them together.

Some rows say kept by the platform or kept by the mail domain. These are records lbreeze keeps up to date for your email, certificates and servers, so they cannot be edited here. Change the email setting itself instead, and its records follow.

Import a zone file

To bring records from another provider in one go:

  1. Ask your current provider for a zone file export.
  2. Paste it into Zone file in the Import records card.
  3. Tick Remove the records already here first only if you want to replace everything.
  4. Click Import.

The result lists how many records were added and any lines that were not imported, with the reason. The SOA and nameserver records at the top of the file are ignored, and records lbreeze publishes for email and certificates are never replaced.

Good to know: A replacing import keeps a copy of the zone first, so you can undo it. See Undo DNS changes with zone history.

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