Hi Adam, This doesn't really address the problem. I'm trying to get http://sproutrobot.com pointed at heroku, but if add a CNAME pointing sproutrobot.com at proxy.heroku.com, that means I can't add a MX record. Which means I can't have an email on my domain.
As people are discussing, maybe there are some DNS services that let you mix CNAMEs and MX records, but that's advised against in the SMTP protocol. And more importantly some mail servers will apparently try to send mail to the server pointed to by the CNAME record. I'm guessing that some of Ron's @thumbfight.com email is going to proxy.heroku.com and getting returned. See http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/content/dns/dont_mix_mx_and_cname_records.html Maybe if proxy.heroku.com at least had a MX records for gmail that would help. Everyone would be locked into gmail, but it's better than nothing. Best, Erik On May 8, 6:36 pm, Adam Wiggins <[email protected]> wrote: > Another fix for this is to alias your domain to point to > proxy.heroku.com instead of heroku.com. i.e.: > > $ host mydomain.com > mydomain.com is an alias for proxy.heroku.com. > proxy.heroku.com has address 75.101.145.87 > proxy.heroku.com has address 75.101.163.44 > > Although it reads a little less nicely, this avoids having to tinker > withMXrecords, so perhaps we'll make this the official way to set up > custom domains. What do you guys think? > > Adam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
