Add three more records for . or yourdomain.com.  you need 6 if you're
using wildcard - three for the wildcard, three for the root domain.

Oren

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Barry Welch <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am also having trouble with GoDaddy + Heroku with wildcard
> subdomains
>
> In my setup, since GoDaddy apparently doesn't allow wildcard CNAMES, I
> currently have 3 A-records that look like this:
>
> A-Record  *   75.101.163.44
> A-Record  *   75.101.163.44
> A-Record  *   75.101.163.44
>
> .. with no CNAMES.
>
> Of course, this means 'http://www.mydomain.com' will load just fine,
> but 'http://mydomain.com' will not.
> Aside from changing registrars or using the Zerigo add-on, I am at a
> loss as to how to set this up.
>
> The Heroku documentation about wildcard domains is vague, stating:
>
> "To use with a custom domain, configure your registrar to point
> *.yourdomain.com at heroku.com. If things are set up correctly you
> should be able to look up any arbitrary subdomain:"
>
> ... which seems like a cop-out statement.
>
> Any ideas on this?
>
> On Nov 15, 11:57 am, Keenan Brock <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> I had it working before I switched everything over tohttp://namecheap.com/
>>
>> 2 things to try:
>> 1) try an @ instead of a *
>> 2) try using A records instead of a CNAME (3 of them)
>>
>> dns numbers are athttp://docs.heroku.com/custom-domains
>> 75.101.163.44
>> 75.101.145.87
>> 174.129.212.2
>>
>> --Keenan
>>
>> On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:48 AM, Jeff wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Having trouble setting up GoDaddy for wildcard subdomains. I have one
>> > domain registered with Dreamhost, and it works fine. Not sure what's
>> > different with GD.
>>
>> > I have the three A records:
>>
>> > A   @   174.129.212.2
>> > A   @   75.101.145.87
>> > A   @   75.101.163.44
>>
>> > But I can't set up a CNAME like this:
>>
>> > *  CNAME   proxy.heroku.com.
>>
>> > With DH, this works. But with GD, I can't find the right way to
>> > handle. Any ideas?
>>
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