On Tuesday, March 13 at 10:26 AM, quoth Jonathan Duncan:
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.
Use a CNAME.
As I have read, using the CNAME option is frowned upon.
CNAME is not so much frowned upon as it is frequently misused and/or
misunderstood. CNAME is a *full* mapping, which means, for example,
that if you have example.com set up as a CNAME for foo.com, then mail
addressed to user@example.com will be delivered as if it had been
addressed to user@foo.com (MX records for example.com will not be
honored)---in some cases, mail servers actually rewrite the recipient
address (whether they should or shouldn't is another matter). It also
can have issues when you map a CNAME to another CNAME (imagine, for
example, setting up an infinite chain of these---or a loop).
But, to do what you want to do, that's the only option. The only
alternative is to set up a cron job to regularly look up the IP
address and update your cdb.
For more information, read this: http://cr.yp.to/im/cname.html
~Kyle
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