i bought a domain name and am trying to get it working. using ovh.com dns zone service. is there an example dns zone configuration that should work? [email protected]

December 16, 2019 at 10:27pm

Artur Arseniev@artur-arseniev

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10:27pm

@tobe

this is the official guide by OVH https://docs.ovh.com/gb/en/domains/web_hosting_how_to_edit_my_dns_zone/#step-2-edit-your-domain-names-dns-zone Add a new CNAME (Type) entry and point it to pages.grapedrop.com (Target)

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December 17, 2019 at 9:14am

tobe@tobe

9:14am

Thanks : ) I did RTFM though ; )

It's just for me it's not clear if that should be the only entry or not.

Also: shouldn't the target be pages.grapedrop.com. (with point at the end, as per the guide - here the 'code' doesn't show correctly).

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9:25am

i'm getting thrown Error when adding the entry to the DNS zone. (A CNAME RR for a root record is not allowed)

9:54am

just getting errors thrown at me for anything i try. i'll take it up with OVH support.

December 17, 2019 at 10:15pm

Artur Arseniev@artur-arseniev

Team

10:15pm

That's quite strange they don't allow CNAME for root records, it should be supported by all major providers. You can eventually point an A record to 45.77.216.22 to make it work but I'd NOT recommend that. It's more likely that the IP changes than the hostname.

Note: yes, the target domain, should contain the point at the end but generally, all the DNS managers add it automatically