Yet another CNAME setup question...
I'm trying to set up some CNAME records so I can set up two test vhosts on my machine.
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Here's partial screen shot of my setup
!(http://kenrbnsn_general_files.s3.amazonaws.com/cname-setup.jpg
It looks right, as far as I can tell, but when I go to another Linux machine and do a host command for either CNAME names, I get
dig ksrmaps.com
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.el6_9.5 <<>> ksrmaps.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4002
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ksrmaps.com. IN A;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com. 899 IN SOA a.gtld-servers.net. nstld.verisign->grs.com. 1529543061 1800 900 604800 86400;; Query time: 54 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun 20 21:04:42 2018
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 102I've been waiting longer than the TTL on the CNAME and A records.
Is there anything that I've missed?
Thanks in advance
2 Replies
All DNS records created in the DNS Manager are relative to the zone you create them in, so from your screenshot, you've created a CNAME record at ksr-test123.com.my-test.site that points to my-test.site:
$ host ksr-test123.com.my-test.site
ksr-test123.com.my-test.site is an alias for my-test.site.
my-test.site has address 45.33.70.69
my-test.site has IPv6 address 2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fef1:9f7c
my-test.site mail is handled by 10 mail.my-test.site.
In order to create records for ksr-test123.com and ksrmaps.com, you'd need to create separate zones in the DNS Manager for them. Note that you can't have CNAME records at the root of a zone, because CNAME records can't coexist with any other record type (and there will be SOA and NS records at the root of the zone), so you'd need to use A and AAAA (and possibly MX, if you care about mail) records that match the records of the DNS name you want it to point to.
