Bug 1500096

Summary:	[RFE] A Record option
Product:	OpenShift Online	Reporter:	Brennan Vincello <bvincell>
Component:	Routing	Assignee:	Ben Bennett <bbennett>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	zhaozhanqi <zzhao>
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Description Brennan Vincello 2017-10-09 21:00:16 UTC

As and Openshift Online admin, I'd like to be able to use a static Public IP Address for A Record pointing instead of CNAME.

This is because pointing CNAME to @ root domain seems to break the MX Record mail which is also pointed to @ root domain.

Comment 1 Ben Bennett 2017-10-16 12:56:42 UTC

I am not sure why they can't make a CNAME for the root address as well as an MX record.  Mail delivery will look for the MX first.

So: CNAME foo.com > foo.rhcloud.com
    MX    foo.com > 1.2.3.4

Everything but email will look at the CNAME.

Note that MX records must always point at IP addresses (per the spec).