Question

My CNAME don't work but why?

I have a free domain (ownhosting.tk). The A Record work perfectly.I add a CNAME for my mail server (mail.ownhosting.tk) but it doesn’t work. i try to open the cmd and type ping mail.ownhosting.tk but it says : “Host Not Found mail.ownhosting.tk etc…” What I can do?

This is my zone file: $ORIGIN ownhosting.tk. $TTL 1800 ownhosting.tk. IN SOA ns1.digitalocean.com. hostmaster.ownhosting.tk. 1440501919 10800 3600 604800 1800 ownhosting.tk. 1800 IN NS ns1.digitalocean.com. ownhosting.tk. 1800 IN NS ns2.digitalocean.com. ownhosting.tk. 1800 IN NS ns3.digitalocean.com. ownhosting.tk. 1800 IN A 104.236.90.56 ownhosting.tk. 1800 IN NS ns4.digitalocean.com. info.ownhosting.tk. 1800 IN CNAME ownhosting.tk. mail.ownhosting.tk. 1800 IN CNAME ownhosting.tk.

Also info.ownhosting.tk doesn’t work.

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Bjorn van den Akker • August 25, 2015

If you are trying to setup these records in your DO domain manager, you first need to set the nameservers to digitalocean. Currently you haven’t got this:

#1	ns03.freenom.com	ownhosting.tk	NS	IN	300 (5 min)
#2	ns02.freenom.com	ownhosting.tk	NS	IN	300 (5 min)
#3	ns01.freenom.com	ownhosting.tk	NS	IN	300 (5 min)
#4	ns04.freenom.com	ownhosting.tk	NS	IN	300 (5 min)

If you done this, wait atleast 24 hours before you are trying to get things working threw digitalocean.

MrPeppah • August 25, 2015

You have to change the nameservers at the .tk domain host. They need to point to ns1/ns2/ns3.digitalocean.com. This will tell the domain to look at DO’s nameservers which is where your records are.

Dennys • August 25, 2015

Sorry for the question but how do I do this? Could you tell me step by step how do I fix? Thanks anyway

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