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I'm not too experienced with DNS records and I'm trying to point a www subdomain to Google App Engine via the registrar gandi.net.
When updating the CNAME record to direct traffic to ghs.google.com, is it critical that there be a period at the end of ghs.google.com in the zone file?
Currently the raw zone file line looks like this:
www 3600 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
Thanks!
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Go to your domain's DNS records. Add a record to your DNS settings, selecting CNAME as the record type. Return to the first window or tab and copy the contents of the Label/Host field. Paste the copied contents into the Label or Host field with your DNS records.
Google Host Server (GHS) is a proprietary web server software that Google uses for its web infrastructure.
A Canonical Name or CNAME record is a type of DNS record that maps an alias name to a true or canonical domain name. CNAME records are typically used to map a subdomain such as www or mail to the domain hosting that subdomain's content.
Yes, you need to have the trailing dot.
You enter the entire hostname followed by a period when the hostname is not inside your domain. Since google is outside your domain, you need the "extra" dot.
For example (using example.com as our domain), with the trailing dot, the CNAME would redirect to ghs.google.com. Without the trailing dot, we'd end up atghs.google.com.example.com, which isn't what you want.
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