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Argued by whom? That seems like an archaic holdover from the early days of the web with no bearing on what's possible today. We aren't supposed to link to reso

by eksith 13y ago

Argued by whom? That seems like an archaic holdover from the early days of the web with no bearing on what's possible today. We aren't supposed to link to resources that don't exist either and (while it's not specifically about DNS) that's exactly what URL rewriting is used for today.

cbhl 13y ago
For example: > Using URLs of the form http://example.com/ http://example.com/ creates a number of problems, and we strongly recommend that you avoid it. http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/baredomain http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/baredomain > zone apex domains (also called bare, naked, or root domains) ... have serious availability implications https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains Granted, you don't always have to follow the RFCs... > the DNS RFC (RFC1033) requires the "zone apex" (sometimes called the "root domain" or "naked domain") to be an "A Record," not a CNAME ... Never one to let a RFC stand in the way of a solution to a real problem, we're happy to announce that CloudFlare allows you to set your zone apex to a CNAME http://blog.cloudflare.com/zone-apex-naked-domain-root-domain-cname-supp http://blog.cloudflare.com/zone-apex-naked-domain-root-domai...
- eksith 13y ago
  * = Wildcard A record often held to the same IP as www (and this is fine according to RFC1034) : http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1034#section-4.3.3 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1034#section-4.3.3 To be fair, NFS Has had a history of doing things old-school (which is fine for most of their clientele), but the availability implications of Heroku is for something completely different. Also they're a special case with a much more complicated backend.