Does your DNS provider offer an ALIAS record?

[luckow]

ALIAS is the solution to connect your naked/root domain to another domain without knowing the IP address of the server instance (like CNAME for subdomains). BUT: it is not available with all DNS providers. This thread tries to give an overview of the DNS providers that support the ALIAS record / feature.

[luckow]

https://www.internetx.com/ aka autodns

[girish]

route53 does - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/resource-record-sets-choosing-alias-non-alias.html

[dsp76]

Updated:

Hetzner DNS does not: https://docs.hetzner.com/de/dns-console/dns/manage-records/managing-cname-records/

They say:

"No unfortunately not. As it is no RFC Standard yet we are not supporting it."

[girish]

@dsp76 I think Hetzner only offers CNAME records and not ALIAS records . Note that ALIAS is not a DNS record type but an implementation on the DNS server . The DNS server resolves a name and returns the response of that resolution directly when using ALIAS (instead of returning the name like when using CNAME)

[LoudLemur]

I think Namecheap do

https://www.namecheap.com/blog/alias-next-generation-host-record/

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/10128/2237/how-to-create-an-alias-record/

[LoudLemur]

Porkbun do:
https://kb.porkbun.com/article/85-how-to-connect-your-root-domain-when-your-web-host-wont-provide-an-ip-address

[LoudLemur]

Namebright - At time of posting, do not support ALIAS records.

[LoudLemur]

Eranet - can't see

[jdaviescoates]

Looks like Gandi does https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/faq/record_types/alias_record.html

[LoudLemur]

Epik - can't see documentation.

[dsp76]

@girish interesting... so whats the use case where only the Alias works, not CNAME?

[girish]

@dsp76 https://blog.dnsimple.com/2014/01/why-alias-record/ is where I learnt about it first