Overriding CNAME and OTHER rule

[Curt Sampson]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Chris Buxton wrote:

> The best method would be to create the A record you have in mind, but
> point it to your own webs erver - then have that web server redirect
> (at the HTTP level) any requests to www.theirdomain.com (or maybe
> blog.theirdomain.com), a CNAME alias of ghs.google.com.

Note you have to make sure that ghs.google.com will respond to requests
with a Host: header of www.theirdomain.com or blog.theirdomain.com or
whatever. If this is not configured on their server (which with some
services--such as Dreamhost--annoyingly requires you configure their
DNS servers to be authoratative, though you don't have to tell the rest
of the world this) they may end up with the default site for that web
server instead.

cjs
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