CNAME doesn't seem to work

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howser

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Hi, I've searched through the forum and the FAQ's but haven't found an answer to my problem.

I host ericksen.org and use the DA server to just handle DNS. I have MX records which work fine, A records which work fine, but the two defined CNAME records which don't work at all.

Example:
mail.ericksen.org has a CNAME record to ghs.google.com

start.ericksen.org has a CNAME record to ghs.google.com

If I create A records for mail.ericksen.org and point it to the IP address of ghs.google.com this works fine.

I checked in BIND, and all the configs are correct, and I tried creating CNAME records to other domains, none of which work.

Any ideas?
 
Do you see any errors in /var/log/messages

Also make sure when you create your cname that it ends in a .

It would be ghs.google.com. not just ghs.google.com

The period on the end is important.
 
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That was it -- I can't believe I missed that -- it's even in the example. Thanks for the quick and accurate reply!
 
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