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You aren't allowed to have a CNAME on the naked domain - it has to be an A record. It's not a shortcoming of the host. You'll have to make an A record that poin
by djweis 5y ago
You aren't allowed to have a CNAME on the naked domain - it has to be an A record. It's not a shortcoming of the host. You'll have to make an A record that points to the same IP as www.
- i_cannot_hack 5y agoYou can have an ALIAS on the naked domain.
- detaro 5y agoTrue, but ALIAS records are not a standard DNS record, but rather a (by now very common) local workaround on the authoritative server.
- cedilla 5y agoThat's not true. The domain name system doesn't really know about different levels of domains, so such a rule doesn't even make that much sense. What you are not allowed to have is a CNAME record in addition to anything else. So if you want a TXT or SRV or MX record, you can't also have the CNAME. Makes sense as the latter basically means "look here instead".
- Sophira 5y agoWhile you're technically correct that the specification doesn't specifically say that you can't have a CNAME on the root domain, it is still true that you cannot have a CNAME on the root domain because DNS requires that you have SOA and NS records on the root domain, which means that a CNAME is not possible due to the rule you cite.
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