On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jean-Marie Schweizer<jeanmarieschwei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > >> >> You cannot have a CNAME for mydomain.com if you have MX (or any other >> records) for it. >> >> You can find the authoritative answer in RFC 1034. >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1034 > > While you might have RFC on your side, it actually works regardless.
Ignoring Internet standards can cause you *and others* pain in future. Think IE vs. Firefox. It sounds like you've found a provider that doesn't follow the DNS standard. If you architect your system to depend on undocumented functionality you may find yourself locked into a certain DNS implementation. That's fine if it's what you want to do. I would be wary of posting what might be considered an "anti pattern" to a list where many people would not know better than to copy it. The standards compliant solution to this problem is to point example.com to an IP that sends an http redirect. - Mike maculike2:~ mbailey$ curl -I google.com HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://www.google.com/ Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:21:13 GMT Expires: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:21:13 GMT Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000 Server: gws Content-Length: 219 maculike2:~ mbailey$ curl -I yahoo.com HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:21:19 GMT Location: http://www.yahoo.com/ Cache-Control: private Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 maculike2:~ mbailey$ curl -I microsoft.com HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Connection: close Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:21:27 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 P3P: CP='ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI' X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7 Location: http://www.microsoft.com Content-Length: 31 Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQQBASQRS=IGGJFOJAFMNOKOILIHMODPEO; path=/ Cache-control: private --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
