My discourse forum is accessible only from the IP address, not forum.example.com In this post Jeff Atwood states: PLEASE do not link to advice that tells people to set their DNS servers to digital ocean’s. That is seriously toxic. (and why is DO telling people to do this? Awful.) Rather, all t…

Unless you have a specific reason to have two names point to your Discourse, then it would be better to just create one A record.

Discourse is only accessible by IP address

railsnoob January 30, 2017, 10:28pm 3

OK I got it working like this please confirm if this is optimal or if there is a better method?

A server 128.199.115.233
CNAME forum server.example.com

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