I fought my fat fingers, and godaddy, and won. I don't know if it as too late the last time I tried it, if deleting the MX records made a difference or what, but it's now working. After sending the email I gave it one last try, deleted all my records, added cnames for the domain, then added the MX records, and it worked.
I'll assume user error, and hope the issues in the linked article have generally been resolved by most SMTP daemons at this point. thanks guys! 5th time was the charm. :) Oren On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Ron Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
