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CNAME support in GeoIP

See original GitHub issue

I have the following config, www (A) and www3 (AAAA) are created but www2 (CNAME) is ignored as described in the documentation.

www:
  geo:
    AS:
      - 1.1.1.1
    AS-JP:
      - 3.3.3.3
    EU:
      - 2.2.2.2
    EU-NL:
      - 5.5.5.5
    NA-US-CA:
      - 4.4.4.4
  ttl: 300
  type: A
  value: 1.2.3.4
www2:
  geo:
    AP:
      - cdn.asia.
    EU:
      - cdn.eu.
    JP:
      - cdn.jp.
    NA-US-CA:
      - cdn.com.
    NL:
      - cdn.nl.
  ttl: 300
  type: CNAME
  value: cdn.net.
www3:
  geo:
    AS:
      - 2001:DB8::2
    AS-JP:
      - 2001:DB8::3
    EU:
      - 2001:DB8::4
    EU-NL:
      - 2001:DB8::5
    NA-US-CA:
      - 2001:DB8::6
  ttl: 300
  type: AAAA
  value: 2001:DB8::1

Route53: image

Same for Dyn.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Comments:10 (9 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

1reaction
Pushpendra3dcommented, Jul 20, 2017

The main thing you want is to get the record as CNAME instead of other type(A/AAAA) of records. Right?

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rosscommented, Aug 6, 2019

This should be covered (thought not super thoroughly tested yet) by the new dynamic record support.

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