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| author | Erik Johnston <erikj@jki.re> | 2018-04-20 15:18:44 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-04-20 15:18:44 +0100 |
| commit | 366dd893fcdeee7f9c216c667159407e8d365520 (patch) | |
| tree | c037f8136e2ea1f06e59d12c85962ef50cfd9cf0 | |
| parent | Merge pull request #3125 from matrix-org/erikj/add_contrib_docs (diff) | |
| parent | Clarify that SRV may not point to a CNAME (diff) | |
| download | synapse-366dd893fcdeee7f9c216c667159407e8d365520.tar.xz | |
Merge pull request #3100 from silkeh/readme-srv-cname
Clarify that SRV may not point to a CNAME
| -rw-r--r-- | README.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 8812cc1b4f..28fbe45de6 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -614,6 +614,9 @@ should have the format ``_matrix._tcp.<yourdomain.com> <ttl> IN SRV 10 0 <port> $ dig -t srv _matrix._tcp.example.com _matrix._tcp.example.com. 3600 IN SRV 10 0 8448 synapse.example.com. +Note that the server hostname cannot be an alias (CNAME record): it has to point +directly to the server hosting the synapse instance. + You can then configure your homeserver to use ``<yourdomain.com>`` as the domain in its user-ids, by setting ``server_name``:: |