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Editing an IX

After you have joined an IX, you can edit the connection settings. You can change any of the settings defined when joining the IX, as well as the IX reverse DNS, and decide whether to shut down or enable the service.

To edit an IX

1. In the Megaport Portal, go to the Services page and locate the IX.

2. Click the gear icon next to the IX to make changes.
   
   The Connection Configuration page appears.
   

3. You can edit any field on the Connection Configuration page. When editing an IX, you can also change the reverse DNS.

   • Reverse DNS (optional) – A reverse DNS (rDNS)Reverse DNS (rDNS) is a querying technique of the Domain Name System (DNS) to determine the domain name associated with an IP address. This is the reverse of the usual forward DNS lookup of an IP address from a domain name. The process of reverse resolving of an IP address uses PTR records.
     is a Domain Name Service (DNS) lookup of a domain name from an IP address. This is the ‘reverse’ of a regular DNS request which resolves an IP address from a domain name. A PTR record type is used to store reverse DNS entries.

     When editing an IX, the Reverse DNS field shows the default configured value assigned from the PTR record when the IX service was set up. You can change this field to a non *.megaport.com value in order to define a custom hostname for your IP address. If later you want to revert to the default value, simply clear the field.

     The reverse DNS can include any of these characters:
     a-z
     A-Z
     0-9

4. Click Save.