Re: heroku nameserver info

2016-11-28 Thread Neil Middleton
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:14 PM Jason Fleetwood-Boldt wrote: > > You will note that to achieve this, DNSimple reads Heroku's IP addresses *in > real time* and updates the DNS record in real time with fixed IP > addresses. > Not entirely true as there's a wedge of caching

Re: heroku nameserver info

2016-11-28 Thread Jason Fleetwood-Boldt
Does Route53 support SSL at the root? You will note that to achieve this, DNSimple reads Heroku's IP addresses in real time and updates the DNS record in real time with fixed IP addresses. Yes, if you don't care about SSL at the root (that is, you're ok with people either using only

Re: heroku nameserver info

2016-11-28 Thread Neil Middleton
I would strongly suggest moving away from GoDaddy DNS, it causes all sorts of issues. DNSimple seems to be the best Heroku friendly DNS provider out there so if you can use them, then do. They support Apex aliasing along with everything else you need to get a decent properly configured setup.

Re: heroku nameserver info

2016-11-28 Thread Pete Keen
Route53 also provides this. You would use an ALIAS record pointing at the SSL endpoint that Heroku hands you, which ultimately is an AWS elastic load balanced instance. On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:26 AM Jennifer Abella wrote: > Jason -- > > You are the best! I really

Re: heroku nameserver info

2016-11-28 Thread Jason Fleetwood-Boldt
Heroku does not provide a DNS service. You cannot use a traditional DNS service with Heroku, as you said, because of the non-permanent IP addresses. For you, you have two basic options: 1. Set up a Forwarding domain on GoDaddy. (In this case you keep GoDaddy as your primary name server--