In theory it will work fine. The 'issue' arrises, for the naked domain, you've probabyl set a bunch of IPs directly as A records.
If for what ever reason there is an issue with those IPs, you are stuck. By cname'ing ghs.googlehosted.com, Google can fix the records to point to new functional IPs automatically. But the chance of something happening is pretty small, because they meant to be maintaining the IPs for use with naked domains anyway. Also its possible the put some more advanced geographical routing via the ghs.googlehosted.com hostname, which you might loose out on. (replying on round robin on the fixed A records) But again its probably not noticable for most purposes. https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/ghs.googlehosted.com On 17 June 2014 22:53, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I've pointed my naked domain, xxxx.com, to my appspot address - I am not > using Google Apps. > I then went on to add www.xxxx.com and the google wizard told me to: > > > > > > > > * 1. Create a resource record for the xxxx.com <http://xxxx.com> domain > using values as shown: - Type: CNAME - Alias: www - Canonical name: > ghs.googlehosted.com <http://ghs.googlehosted.com> Now the problem was that > my registrar dns console gave an undescribed error when I tried to use > ghs.googlehosted.com <http://ghs.googlehosted.com>. So, being completely > ignorant about these things I created a CNAME that just points www.xxxx.com > <http://www.xxxx.com> to xxxx.com <http://xxxx.com> and it seems to have > worked - I can now access my app via my custom domain and via the www > subdomain. But now I am worried - what problems have I created for the > future by not using ghs.googlehosted.com <http://ghs.googlehosted.com>? > David * > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
