Okay, this is a slightly different question than the others that I have read regarding NS & CNAME.
I am using Google Domains for domain, and a cloud service IPP for hosting.
I would like to use Google Domains for DNS. Why? Reliability. If Google goes down, the internet is down (I'm of course exaggerating, but I hope you get the idea). If my own private IPP goes down, well, as you know, they go down.
Here is my plan:
- Google has this odd "Synthetic Record" that can be used to point the naked domain to www. Use Synthetic
@.example.com
>https://www.example.com
. This should reduce the number of lookups whenexample.com
is entered as a URL, automatically transferring it to HTTPS. - Use Google DNS
www.example.com CNAME dns1.ippcompany.example
Number 2 is the question. If dns1.ippcompany.example
always resolves to the same IP as www.example.com
should resolve to, is there any issue? I understand that the pure way to do this is to use a Google DNS www.example.com NS dns1.ippcompany.example
, but doesn't this NS
introduce yet another lookup to the ipp company ? Wouldn't it be more direct to just use CNAME
?