Thanks, Vinny and Barry. I followed the pointer to DNSimple, and confirmed that they'll be able to meet my needs with a DNS Alias. Perfect! I appreciate the help.
-Pat. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Barry Hunter <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > On 10 April 2014 10:19, Vinny P <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:44 PM, pdconant <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Is it possible to use the same subdomain for both a Google App Engine app >>> and for GMail? For instance, imagine I wanted to have >>> http://myapp.mycompany.com served by GAE and also use email address >>> [email protected]. For the GAE app, I'd need a CNAME pointing >>> myapp.mycompany.com to "ghs.googlehosted.com."; and for GMail to work, >>> I'd need MX records for "myapp.mycompany.com". But I don't believe I >>> can have CNAME and MX records for the same subdomain. I'm no DNS expert -- >>> I hope I'm missing something obvious to those more knowledgeable than >>> myself. Any ideas? >>> >> >> >> >> As you noted, it's difficult to have both a CNAME and MX records for the >> same subdomain. Here's a detailed explanation of the issue: >> http://serverfault.com/questions/18000/dns-subdomains-that-require-both-an-mx-record-and-a-cname >> >> >> Unfortunately there's no way to avoid this problem, >> >> > Or can just find a DNS provider that supports ALIAS records (sort of fake > CNAMES, where the nameserver does the resolution, rather than a just > returning a pointer) > > > http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc-compliant-cnames-at-a-domains-root > > http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/differences-between-a-cname-alias-url/ > > > http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/CreatingAliasRRSets.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/IqRgUWK8Ouo/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
