I am in the process of porting some sites from my own server to Google (GHS). I've always used ZoneEdit to manage my DNS needs and in the past - wrongly or rightly - configured it so that:
domain.com
and www.domain.com
pointed to: <my known ip address>
With the www
sub-domain all is fine and it (www.domain.com
) resolves to ghs.google.com
(via a CNAME
entry) and the site is displayed.
However, if I try and reach the bare domain (domain.com
) FF states it is unable to establish a connection. I assume this is because my DNS configuration has no A
ip-address entry for it anymore.
I was considering forwarding any URL from domain.com
to www.domain.com
, although possible ZoneEdit is not recommending it I think because I telling it to only forward requests for http://domain.com
and leave http://www.domain.com
as it is (i.e CNAME
configured).
Am I handling this the best way?
Please advise.