If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try with www.)

Re:If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try... by dchest on Sunday April 29, 2012 @12:17PM (#3906290)

You can't do CNAME with the root domain record. That is all.

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Re:If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try... by jpluscplusm on Sunday April 29, 2012 @12:20PM (#3906299)

Yes, your screenshot shows you putting a CNAME in at your domain's root. The GUI should have disallowed this, as it's not permitted in DNS.

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Re:If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try... by gnu8 on Sunday April 29, 2012 @02:21PM (#3906585)

It's telling that the writer included a screenshot rather than just stating what he did. He believed the GUI was doing something for him when it was not.

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Re:If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try... by diego on Sunday April 29, 2012 @12:19PM (#3906294)

http://pzxc.com/cname-on-domain-root-does-work begs to differ.

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Re:If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try... by rwg on Sunday April 29, 2012 @02:08PM (#3906550)

That blog post is just as wrong today as it was a year ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2593403

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Re:If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try... by dchest on Sunday April 29, 2012 @12:21PM (#3906301)

The reality begs to agree.

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Re:If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try... by diego on Sunday April 29, 2012 @12:24PM (#3906306)

Yeah, I give up. I just changed it.

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