DNS CNAMEs on Root of Domain

CNAMEs on the root of a zone are technically not possible. For a detailed description of the issue, the post at CloudFlare "CNAME Flattening: RFC-compliant support for CNAME at the root" has good background information on the topic.

We implemented a similar behaviour and introduced a new unofficial DNS resource record type: ALIAS.

To use it, just assign this new record type to the entry:

The rest is handled by our CI job and a cron job which regularly checks and updates this RR type and converts it to A and AAAA records (a single ALIAS record results in one or more A records and zero or more AAAA records).

This mechanism can only be used for the root of a zone ("@"), not for arbitrary names. For the latter, use regular CNAMEs.