Thanks Steve, this helps a lot. jeff
On Jun 28, 5:17 pm, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeff. > > You don't want to set the nameservers to heroku but rather tell one and ones > name servers that your domain can be found by going to heroku. To do this you > can use a cname (so stick with one and ones nameservers) in the dns settings. > The cname is proxy.heroku.com. > > The only issue comes if you also have email on that domain. If you do you > can't use the cname and instead you have a choice. One and one can't have > multiple ips (they're called A records by most companies) per domain so > either use one of them (which may cause issues but prob won't) or use the > zerigo add-on. With zerigo you actually do change nameservers to zerigo and > then they will handle adding the other records for you. > > You still need to pay the one and one domain fee but not any of the other > stuff (ie. Only instant domain is needed) > > I hope that helps > Steve > > On 27 Jun 2010, at 13:32, iamtheschmitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all > > > I am trying to move mydomain andwww.mydomainfrom 1 and 1 to point to > > my heroku instance. > > > I am confused about 1) how to do this, 2) do I still need 1 and 1 > > afterward > > > How to do this > > > 1 went into my control panel and selected transfer domain. I chose > > "DNS Record" (vs. CNAME), selected "My name server" (vs. 1 and 1 name > > server", and I entered the 3 IP addresses from docs.heroku.com: > > > 75.101.163.44 > > 75.101.145.87 > > 174.129.212.2 > > > Is this a logical first step. What exactly am I telling 1 and 1 to > > do? I think its to point my domain to proxy.heroku.com. > > > Anyhow, this was not allowed. After googling I found I could add > > subdomains (ns1.mydomain, etc), with these explicit IP addresses and > > point the DNS there, which was acceptable. > > > Now mydomain has fallen off the face of the earth. Looking up > > mydomain using a browser, host, nslookup, ping, all fail: > > > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > > > What's with 1 and 1 after > > > As someone new to this arena, I am not liking 1 and 1, and I would > > like to be rid of them. Am I transferring my DNS to Heroku or are > > they still the owner and I am pointing it there? > > > Thanks in advance > > > jeff > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. -- 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.
