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> I've worked a sysadmin for more than 10 years now, and never realized that it's not possible to CNAME the domain root. It's good to keep in mind, but in most
by elithrar 11y ago
> I've worked a sysadmin for more than 10 years now, and never realized that it's not possible to CNAME the domain root. It's good to keep in mind, but in most cases there are other workarounds.
The common approach is called CNAME flattening, where you can specify a CNAME at the root and your DNS provider 'flattens' that by resolving the A/AAAA record at the end of the CNAME chain.
e.g. CloudFlare's approach: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169056-CNAME-Flattening-RFC-compliant-support-for-CNAME-at-the-root https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169056-C...