Configuring Google Domains
by John Vincent
Posted on August 9, 2018
This is part of a series of discussions regarding Deploying to a Digital Ocean Droplet. For more details, please see Overview of johnvincent.io website
Configuring Google Domains
Select domain: johnvincent.io
- Configure DNS
- Registered Hosts
Host name: johnvincent.io
IP: 104.236.194.244
Host name: www.johnvincent.io
IP: 104.236.194.244
Google Subdomains
Do not use subdomain forward.
Add Custom resource records.
Type: A
TTL: 1h
Data: 104.236.194.244
for each of
jekyll
www.jekyll
music
www.music
mygithub
www.mygithub
rijksmuseum
www.rijksmuseum
internet-resources
www.internet-resources
peg-solitaire
www.peg-solitaire
omnifood
www.omnifood
images
www.images
linkedin
www.linkedin
test
www.test
Verify Domain Configuration
Ensure all are domains and subdomains are forwarding to the correct ip.
Test Domains
dig A www.johnvincent.io
dig A johnvincent.io
and repeat for all subdomains.
Output for each should look like:
dig A www.johnvincent.io
; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> A www.johnvincent.io
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51430
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.johnvincent.io. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.johnvincent.io. 3600 IN A 104.236.194.244
;; Query time: 35 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Sep 24 15:29:57 EDT 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 63