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Daniel
Asked: 2010-08-29 14:13:59 +0800 CST

Pointing subdomain DNS to Google Apps location

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I want to point a sub domain to a google apps account, what is the best way to do this in DNS.

For example email.example-site.com -> https://www.google.com/a/example-site.com.com

What should the DNS record look like?

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3 Answers

  1. To point it to Google Apps, you need to set a CNAME that points to ghs.google.com. For instance:

    email.example-site.com IN CNAME ghs.google.com.

    You'll also need to configure your Google Apps account to allow this. In your Dashboard, click on the Email link and it should take you to your Email settings page. At the top, you should see a section called: Web address, with a link called Change URL. Go through the wizard and it should provide you with instructions on what you need to do.

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  2. What you are trying to do is outside the scope of DNS on it's own. You can however point DNS to a web server that then does a HTML redirect.

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  3. First you need to set up your mx records as per Google's instructions. If you want to set up a sub domain to access web mail you create a cname that points to ghs.google.com.

    You have to validate the subdomain in your Google Docs dashboard before you can use it.

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    You should also set up spf records to prevent your mail going to spam boxes.

    SPF Records:

example.com 14400 in TXT "v=spf1 include:aspmx.googlemail.com ~all"

example.com 14400 in TXT "v=spf1 a mx ip4:xxx.xxx.xx.xxx include:aspmx.googlemail
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