CNAME Flattening - CNAMEs at a Domain Root [LOGGED] - Enhance Control Panel

CNAME Flattening - CNAMEs at a Domain Root [LOGGED]

AdamM

Hi
Its possible integrate CNAMEs at a Domain Root for Enhance DNS role?
Cloudflare has such a function
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc-compliant-cnames-at-a-domains-root/

It is useful, for example, when setting the cname quic.cloud cdn, to use cdn with and without www prefix

Example
Currently it is only possible to set the CNAME for the www record, this requires setting up a redirect in wordpress
There is also an option to set the CNAME for quic.cloud without the www prefix but unfortunately Ehance DNS does not support this.
Not every customer wants to use the www prefix.

Is it possible to implement this?

Enhance use PowerDNS?
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/guides/alias.html
is this the function I am thinking of?

Kindly regards

Adam

This is definitely possible and we do have a feature request logged for it.

AdamM https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/guides/alias.html

Yes that should work. Obviously there is a risk that if your system is unable to resolve the CNAME then the record might not be correctly served.

AdamM

Adam

Obviously there is a risk that if your system is unable to resolve the CNAME then the record might not be correctly served.

What exactly do you mean? Can this be implemented in a safe way?

Adam

AdamM

It's no different to any other CNAME flattening system. Your system needs to read the remote CNAME, cache that data and serve the IP as an A record. If for any reason your system can't resolve the CNAME then it won't have the A record to serve. It's unusual but it's inherently more risky than a hard coded record as 2 DNS lookups are needed.

mendozal

This would be a interesting feature to have. It will definitely help with client migration.

AdamM

mendozal Yes, and a unique solution that one of the biggest in the industry, such as Plesk, does not have.

Adrien

+1 for this feature

AdamM

Are there plans to add this feature to the roadmap?

AdamM

any plans to add this feature to roadmap?

Adam

It has been logged as a feature request and it will be built but no development time has been scheduled yet.

AdamM

Adam Hi. Any updates with this feature?

Aliysa_Enhance

AdamM Hi Adam, No development time has been assigned to this feature yet. When this changes, I will be sure to update the thread.

AdamM

Is there any hope to add this feature to the new roadmap?

webhostwizards

+1 🙂 Quic.cloud seems to be to best CDN from my experience. Not just with testing but more with the real world experience, it flys between pages, and free credits every month! Would be awesome to have CNAME flattening as apart of Enhance DNS.

shahed

It has been almost 3 years. Any update on this?

slimx

I'm afraid not.

AdamM

It is possible to add a cname for the root domain but it displays an error about invalid nameservers

presswizards

I just use Cloudflare for all my sites, and use their CNAME flattening. I even created a nice migration script that uses the Cloudflare API to update the CNAME from oldserver.mydomain.com to newserver.mydomain.com for all the domains being moved.

I was able to edit the main Enhance server CP index file ( nano /var/www/control-panel/ui/index.html ) and just under the <BODY> tag, add this:

That hides the dumb DNS instructions box from all sites. I wish I could force it to add the "Visit SIte" button, but when DNS is not set to Enhance, it forces the Preview button only.

Enhance devs really need to add a "Disable Enhance DNS" option, like Plesk has, so that it can just assume DNS is external and not to worry about it.