domaindiscover is a registry that happens to offer included DNS services... their DNS services allow both a CNAME and an MX record for same TLD can both point to separate places heroku/google apps.
This is, in fact, exactly how we have thumbfight.com both hosted at heroku, and are using gmail for domains as well On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Oren Teich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Heorku guys, > From my research, it looks like you can't use cname's for the domain > if you have MX as well. Many DNS providers enforce this as well - > I've now tried both godaddy and zoneedit, and neither will allow me to > have MX for google apps, and CNAME to heroku. > > I also see that the heroku gem is clever, and won't let me point my > domain if it's not a cname. Any idea of a work around here? > > Oren > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Oren Teich <[email protected]> wrote: >> So it looks like this is a bit more complex. >> If you've got MX records for mail, you can't have CNAME for the domain. >> >> http://www.ferris.com/2008/09/08/why-you-shouldnt-mix-cname-and-mx/ >> >> Looks like I'm going to have to setup records for my domain to point >> to heroku, since I can't do anything else about my MX for google apps. >> >> I see that heroku.com is two IP now, will I rue the day if I just >> setup two pointers to them? >> >> Oren >> >> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Keenan Brock <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> +1 Zoneedit. For 9+ yrs >>> >>> Recently I've consolidated to Godaddy. I registered there and wanted >>> to consolidate. >>> >>> Sometimes I wish I had stayed there. >>> >>> >>> On Apr 25, 2009, at 5:39 AM, GreenAsJade <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> sigh, that'd be zoneedit.com with two ees. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Apr 25, 3:42 pm, GreenAsJade <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> And if you want a second option, zonedit.com has done well for me for >>>>> ages. >>>>> >>>>> Martin >>>> > >>> >>> >> >>> >> > > > > -- Ron Evans 310-597-1013 [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
