Domain Aliases, do they actually work?

[diacono]

Well I am getting very frustrated at the moment...

Here is the scenario. We have a total of 6 domains (.com, .net, .co.uk with and without a hyphen). Obviously our main domain is the .com

We are about to move the hosting of our site and DNS to jodo because the CP give us flexibility to change our DNS to our needs. That means we need custom MX record, our site to point to our current host (until we are happy that everything has been setup and Jodo) and an additional subdomain which needs to point to a dedicated server elsewhere.

So the last thing I need to do have to set up and maintain identical DNS records for 6 domains, right?

Many thanks in advance

Having had all sort of problems this week setting up the domains, I have now been told that the domain aliases (Service Account > Domain Settings > Edit Domain > Domain aliases) only work for A records but not any of the following:

1. MX records
2. Subdomains, A records
3. CNAME records
4. Any IP addresses outside of Jodo!

I personally don't believe any of this as this means that the Aliases functionality is next to useless.

Can anyone prove me wrong or point me in the right direction as Jodo support are not being very helpful this week.

 

[skypanther]

I can't speak to the CNAME, etc. but for mail aliases to work you have to enable that option in the plan. Then, on the mail info page you create a mail domain alias (must add the MX record in the background). That part works; I just set one up for a client last week.

Good luck on info on the rest. ... Uh, you can add custom DNS records so maybe you can do those things manually?

Tim

 

[wotech]

ya, it looks like when you add a domain alias, it only creates the A record for the domain and, if you opt to, it creates an MX record as well. But there's no reason you couldn't add the rest manually.

this is no fault of jodohost's, it's an hsphere thing. And if you're on a reseller system at a hosting company (jodo or otherwise), there's a good chance you'll be using hsphere.

ya, it sucks, but you should only have to do it once.