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Any number of companies these days don't provide you with an A record for the root ...Heroku, Amazon's ELB, etc etc etc ...the list goes on. We're solving a re

Any number of companies these days don't provide you with an A record for the root ...Heroku, Amazon's ELB, etc etc etc ...the list goes on. We're solving a real problem considering how popular those services are these days. Perhaps it's not an issue for your setup, but for anyone using those names servers (among many others) it's a very real issue when you'd typically need to use a CNAME if you want to use the root vs. the antiquated WWW.

evilDagmar 13y ago
No, this completely not about the presence or lack of a 'www'. I'm saying it's pointless to even ramble on about CNAMEs when the conditions necessary for this to /even work/ mean it would be just as easy to return an abstracted A record that points to the right/active resource in the first place... Like GTMs generally do /already/. When the query comes into the GTM for loadbalancedsite.com, the response isn't fixed--the GTM has already been keeping track of which nodes are up and/or potentially closest to the requestor and it simply hands back an A record with a reasonably short TTL without anyone having to pat themselves on the back for being 'clever'.
peterwwillis 13y ago
> We're solving a real problem considering how popular those services are these days. In other words, it's a hack to support broken cloud providers?