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I have two Cloud Services

service1.cloudapp.net

service2.cloudapp.net

each cloud service is having 1 VM with their own Public IP

each VM is running a website.

VM1 IP is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

VM2 IP is zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz

Now i have created a Round Robin Traffic Manager (xyzrobin.trafficmanager.net) to which I have assigned two end points pointing to each of the cloud services (service1 and service2).

Now i want to assign my Domain name xyz.com to the traffic manager xyzrobin.trafficmanager.net but the DNS manager is not allowing me to add and is asking for an IP address for the A record.

After studying online a lot I created one CNAME record www for xyz.com and assigned the xyzrobin.trafficmanager.net to it

CNAME ---- www ---- xyzrobin.trafficmanager.net

also another record as this

A ---- xyz.com ---- xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (VM1 IP)

now if i type in browser xyz.com i am taken to VM1 and when i type www.xyz.com i am taken to best selection among VM1 and VM2 via traffic manager.

How do i set the xyz.com to go through the traffic manager.

please help me out.

Vadim Kotov
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When your website is configured as a Traffic Manager endpoint, you will use the .trafficmanager.net address when creating DNS records.

You can only use CNAME records with Traffic Manager

Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-traffic-manager-custom-domain-name/

gbellmann
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    how to point the TLD to the traffic manager endpoint? any walk through or trick to do so or is there any proper way to achieve that? – Mohammed Kamran Azam Aug 26 '15 at 08:48
  • Most registrars don't let you point a TLD to a CNAME, only A records. As an alternative, you can have another site that redirects (HTTP 301) from the TLD to the www.* site that is pointing to your traffic manager. – gbellmann Aug 26 '15 at 15:09
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    this sucks. Lets me real. I have to use a DNS resolver, to point naked domains, to their CNAME record. – Miguel Jun 06 '16 at 11:37