Hi all, I created a DNS record for a client domain mydomain.com earlier (about 4 hours ago). The base domain is now public, but all of the sub-domains remain unpingable and unreachable in a browser. OK, it’s early days, but I’m curious as to why the base domain has propagated but the sub-domains haven’t. Here’s my zone file:
$TTL 1800
@ IN SOA NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. hostmaster.mydomain.com. (
1404417443 ; last update: 2014-07-03 19:57:23 UTC
3600 ; refresh
900 ; retry
1209600 ; expire
1800 ; ttl
)
IN NS NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM.
NS NS2.DIGITALOCEAN.COM.
NS NS3.DIGITALOCEAN.COM.
@ IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
mail.mydomain.com IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
webmail.mydomain.com IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
www.mydomain.com IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
m.mydomain.com IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Am I just being impatient?
Thoughts appreciated Cheers Mark
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Thanks for the response, Larry. All sorted now. My fault. I was using a FQDN without the full-stop for the sub-domains. You should use just the sub-domain without a full-stop OR the FQDN with a full-stop . . . . . . .it says here ;-)
Cheers Mark
Have you tried checking Google’s DNS or another DNS provider? The DNS provider I use at home has occasionally taken a while to get some of its caches updated, requiring me to force an update.