On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, 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.
As per the Google instructions I have setup my client's domain this way.
# ghs.google.com = 66.249.81.121
# Zone = drduncanchiropractic.com
.drduncanchiropractic.com::ns1.bluesunhosting.com:3600
.drduncanchiropractic.com::ns2.bluesunhosting.com:3600
+drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
+www.drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
+docs.drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
+calendar.drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
+start.drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
+googleffffffff915d6a88.drduncanchiropractic.com:64.233.167.99:3600
+mail.drduncanchiropractic.com:ghs.google.com:3600
@drduncanchiropractic.com::aspmx.l.google.com:1:3600
@drduncanchiropractic.com::alt1.aspmx.l.google.com:5:3600
@drduncanchiropractic.com::alt2.aspmx.l.google.com:5:3600
@drduncanchiropractic.com::aspmx2.googlemail.com:10:3600
@drduncanchiropractic.com::aspmx3.googlemail.com:10:3600
@drduncanchiropractic.com::aspmx4.googlemail.com:10:3600
@drduncanchiropractic.com::aspmx5.googlemail.com:10:3600
However, this does not seem to work. dnsqr shows me this:
# dnsqr a drduncanchiropractic.com
1 drduncanchiropractic.com:
108 bytes, 1+0+1+0 records, response, noerror
query: 1 drduncanchiropractic.com
authority: drduncanchiropractic.com 300 SOA ns1.bluesunhosting.com
hostmaster.drduncanchiropractic.com 1174142519 16384 2048 1048576 2560
This is what DNS Report says about it:
http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=drduncanchiropractic.com
When I use the IP address in place of ghs.google.com, the hostnames work
fine. So I am contacting Google to see if using the IP is acceptable or
if they plan on changing the IP of that hostname often.
Is there any reason why using the hostname instead of the IP would be a
problem?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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