Getting started
Make your first change
How do I make a DNS change in DNSMentor?
Press New change, pick the domain, add or edit records, and press Check. DNSMentor runs 56 validation rules against the zone as it would exist afterwards. Fix anything blocking, submit for approval if your policy requires it, then apply. The result is independently verified in public DNS afterwards.
# The shape of every change
- Compose — by hand, from a template, or with AI assistance that proposes records and shows its reasoning.
- Check — 56 rules run. Errors block; warnings must be acknowledged by name.
- Simulate — see the resulting zone, including records you did not touch that are affected.
- Approve — a second engineer, if policy for you and this client requires one.
- Apply — written through the provider API after re-reading live state.
- Verify — queried from outside to confirm the world can see it.
# What blocks and what warns
Of the 56 checks, 27 are errors and cannot be overridden by anybody at any skill level. 25 are warnings that must be read and accepted, and the acceptance is recorded against you. 4 are informational. The split is not arbitrary: errors are things that are wrong under the RFCs, warnings are things that are usually wrong but occasionally deliberate.
MX values always require a human to confirm the target against the mail provider's own console. That check cannot be switched off for anybody, because a tenant hostname is the one value no rule can derive.
Thanks — noted.
Related
Raise a ticket from inside the platform and your tenant, plan and recent activity come attached automatically. A client currently offline is treated as urgent on every plan.