On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:26:38AM -0600, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
> I have been playing around with Google Apps (google.com/a) and as part of
> that I am setting up a domain name to point to my Google Apps. During the
> setup, Google requires that I point the domain name to one of their domain
> names. For example, they want
>
> www.drduncanchiropractic.com to point to ghs.google.com
>
> So I pinged ghs.google.com and got the IP to make this:
>
> +www.drduncanchiropractic.com:66.249.81.121:3600
>
> However, I am wondering, is there a way to poing the domain name to another
> domain name like they requested? In case they change the IP of the domain
> so that it will always be correctly pointing to whatever IP ghs.google.com
> is using.
>
> As I have read, using the CNAME option is frowned upon.
In this case, I think a CNAME is what you need, since you have no
control over the IP address. Note that I get a different IP address,
and that ghs.google.com is actually a CNAME for ghs.l.google.com:
% dnsip ghs.google.com
64.233.179.121
% dnsqr any ghs.google.com
255 ghs.google.com:
52 bytes, 1+1+0+0 records, response, noerror
query: 255 ghs.google.com
answer: ghs.google.com 604399 CNAME ghs.l.google.com
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