How to I point a domain or subdomain to the IP of your Remote Desktop Server

Created by: Harshal Sadhu

Modified on: Sat, 7 Jul, 2018 at 9:05 PM

Login to your domain registrar for example - GoDaddy and click on the domain name you wish to create the record for
Then go to the second tab which is labeled “DNS Zone File”
Under the Zone File section, click on “add record”.
Select record type “A (Host)”
1. In the popup window, enter Host Field as “RDP” or whatever you are using but not the full subdomain which would be in this example “RDP.Denver-Colocation.com”
2. In the popup window, enter the Points To field as the IP address of your server XXX.XXX.XXX.XXXX and TTL as 1 hour or whatever is default
3. Click OK
Make sure to SAVE RECORD. In our experience, it only takes 5 or 10 minutes to take effect. Once you can ping RDP.Denver-Colocation.com then you can login with the domain name instead of the IP address.
Test it by logging into your server using RDP.Denver-Colocation.com instead of IP address

Harshal is the author of this solution article.

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