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Base domain name non www A record not updating

I have a domain (test.com for example), and I have www.test.com and test.com pointing to the ip address of my server in linode domains. www.test.com loads fine, and test.com does not, using DNS lookup tools, test.com has nothing linked in A records at all, but www.test.com does, what am I doing wrong? should i be putting @ for test.com and www for www.test.com?

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For test.com, just leave the hostname field completely blank in the A record.

If you wanted to, you could get rid of the A record entry for www and add it as a CNAME:

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