Help forwarding a domain
danoli_24 said 1 year ago:
I bought the domain tpb.co.in from GoDaddy through Google Apps. I am looking to forward the domain to a simple webpage that I am hosting on my dropbox’s public folder.
Basically I need tpb.co.in to go to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103624/TPB/index.html
I set up forwarding with masking from control panel, but it goes to a Google error page instead of my dropbox page.
I think since I bought the domain through Google and it came preconfigured with all the google dns settings, I am not able to forward the domain as required.
Can someone please help me get this set up.
christianh said 1 year ago:
@danoli_24
By default Google will have 4 A records that look like this,
@ 216.239.32.21
@ 216.239.34.21
@ 216.239.36.21
@ 216.239.38.21
When you forward, the system only updates one of them to 64.202.189.170.
The other 3 records will need to be removed leaving only the forwarding IP above.
Also, the WWW CNAME by default will point to ghs.google.com.
This will need to point to @.
For further assistance, you can contact gdomains@secureserver.net.
–Christian
danoli_24 said 1 year ago:
It worked thank you.
I’d love to know the technical explanation for what I did though, so I know how to deal with a similar problem the next time.
Or a link to somewhere I can learn more about DNS configurations and the like.
chrisg said 1 year ago:
@danoli_24,
You have essentially update the DNS settings to direct to the domain forwarding services provided by our DNS management.
As mentioned by @christianh, Google provides 4 default root (@) records. These records tell a browser that domain.com points to this specific IP address where the site files can be found. Most hosting services only require one of these records for your root domain name. So having the other three while only one is updated to our forwarding services would cause your domain to randomly resolve between this service and Google’s default settings.
The other Google default you have modified is the CNAME record for ‘www’. Anytime someone specifies ‘www.domain.com’ this record directs to the specific domain name. Or in this case, it now directs to the root A record you have specified. Which allows both ‘domain.com’ and ‘www.domain.com’ requests to resolve to the same location.
I hope this helps clarify the changes you have made.
Christopher G.
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