I purchased a domain and want to associate it with a github.io url. I'm having difficulties configuring my DNS for the custom domain to point to the Github domain.
In the github documentation it says "you must configure an ALIAS, ANAME, or A record with your DNS provider."
Amazon Route 53 seems to only have the A record so I need to use that. The problem is that A records seem to only take an IP address. I have been unable to find a correct ip that correlates with my github.io url.
I ran a dig command to get the ip and it gives me an ip. When I visit this ip however it 404s.
I have also used the host command and sites that lookup ip addresses but they all give me the same 404ing ip