WELCOME TO GABBART COMMUNICATIONS The following information is for school districts who are ready to modify your Domain Name Service (DNS) to switch your website to your new Gabbart Communications website. If you are not familiar with making DNS changes, please forward this to your Technology Director or Internet Service Provider. You can also contact Teddy Gabbart or Will Raines for additional help at 877-810-6894. EXTERNAL DNS CHANGE DIRECTIONS Please change the External DNS A Record for all URL's currently pointing to your existing web server to our new web server. Basically, every URL pointing to your current IP address needs to be changed to our Amazon AWS servers at 54.208.31.49. This will include the www and root entries. If there are subdomains, (hs.school.com) please change those as well. Schools who have Internal DNS Servers MUST make changes on their internal DNS server on their local network. Please see INTERNAL DNS CHANGE DIRECTIONS for additional instructions. Making Change on DNS Server: Most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for school districts will provide DNS servers to their clients. If this is your case, you will need to contact them and request a DNS Pointer Change for your domain’s “A Record” . However, if you own your own domain name and are using DNS servers provided by Network Solutions, GoDaddy, etc., you will need to log into your account and make the IP address change. For your convenience, I have included directions for a couple of popular domain registrars. GoDaddy 1. Log in to your Account Manager - https://mya.godaddy.com 2. In the My Products section, click Domain Manager. 3. From the Tools menu, select DNS Manager. The DNS Dashboard displays. 4. For the domain name with the record you want to edit, click Edit Zone. The Zone File Editor displays. 5. In the A (Host) section, click the A record for mydomain.com (replace mydomain.com with the domain you are updating). 6. In the 'Points to' field, replace your current IP address with 54.208.31.49. 7. Click Save Zone File, and then click OK. Network Solutions 1. Go to www.networksolutions.com and click on MANAGE ACCOUNT to login. 2. Click on the Edit DNS link under the My Domain Names section. 3. On the DNS Manager Settings page, in the IP Address: A Records section, click Add/Edit 4. Edit the host name for @ in the Host column 5. Replace existing IP address with 54.208.31.49 under the Numeric IP Address column 6. Click Continue Once updates are made, DNS propagation can take up to 48 hours. You can reboot your computer or go to COMMAND PROMPT and type IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS to get your new website to load. INTERNAL DNS CHANGE DIRECTIONS Schools with an Internal DNS Server MUST make changes on their local network. Find DNS Server In Windows XP: Go to a COMMAND PROMPT by clicking START, then click RUN, and typing CMD in the box. A DOS COMMAND PROMPT (Black Windows with blinking cursor) will open. Type IPCONFIG /ALL. A list of information will load. Look for DNS Servers. Write down the IP addresses of these servers. They should begin with a 172, or 192, or 10. If it’s pointing to any other number, you are using an outside the school DNS server and it will get it updated through your External DNS instructions above. Find DNS Server In Windows 7: Go to a COMMAND PROMPT by clicking STARTand type CMD in the box at the bottom. A DOS COMMAND PROMPT (Black Windows with blinking cursor) will open. Type IPCONFIG /ALL. A list of information will load. Look for DNS Servers. Write down the IP addresses of these servers. They should begin with a 172, or 192, or 10. If it’s pointing to any other number, you are using an outside the school DNS server and we will get it updated through your External DNS instructions above. Making Change on DNS Server: Either go to your DNS Server, or use Remote Desktop to access the DNS Server IP address found above. You MUST know the Network Administrator Username and Password to access the server. From the Server: Click START, ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS, & DNS. Click the PLUS signs next to the SERVER NAME, FORWARD LOOKUP ZONES, and then click on DOMAIN NAME. On right side, all computers on local network will appear. Click DATA in column header once or twice until the largest IP addresses appear. (Unless Network IP Range is 10.??.??.??, you will want the largest to appear on top.) It will look like the picture below. Find the entry with www under the NAME column. Write down the IP address next to www for future reference. Double click the line to edit. Change the IP address to 54.208.31.49. Next, search for the previous “written down” IP address. If it appears anywhere else, please change it to 54.208.31.49. Once this is done, go to COMMAND PROMPT and type IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS. Next type: PING “Domain Name” (WWW.SCHOOL.K12.OK.US). You should see 54.208.31.49 and 4 failed ping attempts. PING is not turned on for our web servers. We are just looking for the 54.208.31.49 IP address to appear. If it does, your Internal IP address has been changed. .