Comments on: Go Daddy DNS & Heroku

By: Tarun

Tarun — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:42:00 +0000

Thank you very much.
Especially the tip on how to get root domain to work.

By: Tarun

Tarun — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:42:00 +0000

Thank you very much.
Especially the tip on how to get root domain to work.

By: Jim Gilliam

Jim Gilliam — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:43:21 +0000

This doesn't appear to work anymore. I'm getting a “ERROR – Please enter a valid IP address for the Points To field.”

By: jeniliaa

jeniliaa — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:57:04 +0000

Nice concept fine.I used the Godaddy reseller site for the Domain name registration the site named as tucktail.com.

By: nateclark

nateclark — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:37:52 +0000

Nice demo, but this only works for you because Heroku also happens to be using Google Apps for their email. If you wanted to use another email provider for the MX record, this setup will break your ability to receive mail. I've been struggling with this problem for a while with a Heroku app that I'm working on. I was using GoDaddy's free email forwarding to forward mail from my domain to my personal Gmail account ... but as soon as you set a CNAME pointing to Heroku, most mail servers won't be able to find your MX records, they'll only find Heroku's MX, which currently point to Google Apps.

As you mentioned, this hack actually breaks the RFC. In your case, it works because you and Heroku both use Google apps for MX ... that's nice and probably won't change very often, but it's still a hack.

It would be nice if Heroku offered a reliable IP address, so we could just create an A record like you would normally do. This would definitely be something I'd be willing to pay for.

By: jpoz

jpoz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:19:19 +0000

Howdy,

Going to "Advanced mode" allows you to select all records to delete them all at once.

jpoz

By: foi

foi — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:20:24 +0000

Good job! молодец

By: nbhat

nbhat — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:05:32 +0000

That was very useful esp the dot trick. Thanks !