Merge pull request #3100 from silkeh/readme-srv-cname

Clarify that SRV may not point to a CNAME
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Erik Johnston 2018-04-20 15:18:44 +01:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -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``::