DNS/Apache subdomain confusion

hi,

I have a basic question about whether my apache config is setup correctly on one of my linodes. We have a domain that is currently hosted on mediatemple but we are forwarding subdomains from that domain to linode.

So our mediatemple DNS config is like this:

A records for:

books.example.com -> [IP OF MY LINODE]
events.example.com -> [IP OF MY LINODE]

Then on the linode I don't have specific DNS entries just the following apache configs:

# /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -S
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server books.example.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/books.example.com:1)
         port 80 namevhost books.example.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/books.example.com:1)
         port 80 namevhost events.example.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/events.example.com:1)

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Syntax OK

and my configs that are symlinked in sites-enabled:

# cat books.example.com 
 <virtualhost *:80="">ServerAdmin admin@example.com
        ServerName books.example.com
        ServerAlias books.example.com
        DocumentRoot /srv/www/books.example.com/public_html/
        ErrorLog /srv/www/books.example.com/logs/error.log
        CustomLog /srv/www/books.example.com/logs/access.log combined

        <directory>Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All</directory></virtualhost> 

# cat events.example.com 
 <virtualhost *:80="">ServerAdmin admin@example.com
        ServerName events.example.com
        ServerAlias events.example.com
        DocumentRoot /srv/www/eventssite/public_html/
        ErrorLog /srv/www/eventssite/logs/error.log
        CustomLog /srv/www/eventssite/logs/access.log combined

        <directory>Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All</directory></virtualhost> 

Now the issue is that books.example.com returns the site at events.example.com and thing generally are a little glitchy. We set up the DNS for this about 18 hours ago. Is it just DNS propagation or is my configuration incorrect?

Please advise, I don't really know that much about DNS configurations… DO I need to modify my /etc/hosts file for example?

Thanks!

• J