BRUG domain

[Jamie Dyer]

We have a proper domain! I've registered bristolrb.org to use for
BRUG, I figured if its good enough for bostonrb.org & seattlerb.org
etc. it'll be good enough for us. If anyone knows of any better
domains that are available let me know. Unfortunately I'm having
trouble pointing it at the github page as apparently it's illegal (in
DNS land) to use CNAME records with a root domain. There is a work
around to have bristolrb.org redirect to the CNAME www.bristolrb.org
but that's a bit shit. I've been following the instructions here http://pages.github.com/
if anyone can think of a better solution let me know.

Alternatively I'd be happy to provide a VM for the site through media72.net
, I noticed the code for bostonrb.org is open source so we could use
it http://github.com/bostonrb/bostonrb for our site.

Jamie
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[nicolas alpi]

Thanks a lot Jamie, thats a great news!!

I really like the seattlerb style.

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[Peter Ferne]

On 30 Oct 2009, at 14:29, Jamie Dyer wrote:

> Unfortunately I'm having
> trouble pointing it at the github page as apparently it's illegal (in
> DNS land) to use CNAME records with a root domain. There is a work
> around to have bristolrb.org redirect to the CNAME www.bristolrb.org
> but that's a bit shit.

Just use an A record which points at the same IP address.
> brug.github.com. 7200 IN A 207.97.227.245

Create and upload the CNAME file as directed. As long as the domain
resolves to the right address and github knows about the name it won't
matter whether it's an A record or a CNAME record. The only possible
issue is that if the IP address associated with brug.github.com
changed we would have to update the A record for bristolrb.org
(whereas a CNAME record would pick up the change automatically).
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[Jamie Dyer]

Weird, adding a CNAME first then adding an A record works, adding a CNAME after an A record produces an error that the record is invalid. The domains pointing to our github page now http://bristolrb.org