# Missing DNS Record for Grin Forum - UPDATED **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [April 19, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/missing-dns-record-for-grin-forum-updated/4875 "2019-04-19T19:54:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grin0](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/grin0/32/2122_2.png) [@grin0](https://forum.grin.mw/u/grin0)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/missing-dns-record-for-grin-forum-updated/4875/1 "2019-04-19T19:54:18Z")
_ **UPDATED: 2019-05-04** _ Greetings, Wasn’t sure where to report this. Perhaps it was planned this way, but if so it would be unusual. [www.grin-forum.org](http://forum.grin.mw) resolves to an IP address through the nameserver associated with the domain, however [grin-forum.org](http://grin-forum.org) (no www) does _not_ resolve. So usually an **A** record is supposed to be there, and a **CNAME** record for the “www” subdomain (technically it’s a subdomain). Below is a screenshot of nslookup. I used CloudFlare and Google’s DNS servers to confirm it was not just a DNS issue. ![mxtoolbox-grinforum-domain-health](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/grin/original/2X/e/ef286f4d40ef959e6ae98f8f8c3f9a4e0511a78c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![grin0](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/grin0/32/2122_2.png) [@grin0](https://forum.grin.mw/u/grin0)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/missing-dns-record-for-grin-forum-updated/4875/2 "2019-05-04T20:35:27Z")
Admins - please note domain health! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![timolson](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/timolson/32/494_2.png) [@timolson](https://forum.grin.mw/u/timolson)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/missing-dns-record-for-grin-forum-updated/4875/3 "2019-05-05T18:07:49Z")
Allowing root domains to resolve to the web server is merely a convention, not any requirement. All websites in the 90’s used to be configured this way, where you need to type www. I mean, what if you wanted access to the Gopher or FTP server not WWW? 😀 ---
**Author:** ![grin0](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/grin0/32/2122_2.png) [@grin0](https://forum.grin.mw/u/grin0)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/missing-dns-record-for-grin-forum-updated/4875/4 "2019-05-05T23:35:12Z")
Right, but nearly all domains now will either resolve or redirect to the web server. And of course if you wanted to access Gopher or FTP you would specify a port number instead of 80 or 443 which is implied 🙂