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dchest
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If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read Th...
You can't do CNAME with the root domain record. That is all.
jpluscplusm
on April 29, 2012
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Yes, your screenshot shows you putting a CNAME in at your domain's root. The GUI should have disallowed this, as it's not permitted in DNS.
gnu8
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It's telling that the writer included a screenshot rather than just stating what he did. He believed the GUI was doing something for him when it was not.
diego
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http://pzxc.com/cname-on-domain-root-does-work
begs to differ.
rwg
on April 29, 2012
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That blog post is just as wrong today as it was a year ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2593403
dchest
on April 29, 2012
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The
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begs to agree.
diego
on April 29, 2012
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Yeah, I give up. I just changed it.
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