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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">Short answer: no</div>
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">Longer answer: set the apex to an IP address of a external facing webserver that you control so it can to do an HTTP 302 redirection to your cloudfront name.</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="border:none; padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>From:</b> "Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) via bind-users" <bind-users@lists.isc.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 24, 2024 8:39 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> cname for apex record<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello bind users.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are running bind 9.14.28 on Ubuntu and have an offsite provider for our DNS services.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The cname we create for our webserver <a href="http://www.wadsworth.org">
www.wadsworth.org</a> is working well.<br>
However, I’ve been asked if we can point the apex record at the external webserver.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I’m understanding the docs I’ve looked at, there are ways if we had external DNS services, rather than the on-prem Bind server, or if bind supported the Alias RR.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I know it can, but does not natively, or at least not the document I found which indicates we’d need to modify the source code.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m looking for guidance on how to point the named domain name, the apex record at the IP addresses provided by the cname name we are using for our webserver.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Brian Cuttler, System and Network Administration</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Albany, NY 12201 POB 509</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Brian.Cuttler@Health.NY.gov"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#0563C1">Brian.Cuttler@Health.NY.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">518 486-1697</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif"></span></p>
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