The Little Guy Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 I am using godaddy to do a CNAME, when I do it, nothing happens. When I load the page it says "The domain is parked FREE, courtesy of godaddy.com" but the CNAME says: stats.weblyize.com What am I doing wrong (its been about 24 hours)? here is the zone file godaddy gave me: CLEEP.US. 3600 IN SOA ns29.domaincontrol.com. dns.jomax.net ( 2012022901 28800 7200 604800 3600 ) ; CNAME Records www 3600 IN CNAME stats.weblyize.com e 3600 IN CNAME email.secureserver.net pda 3600 IN CNAME mobilemail-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net webmail 3600 IN CNAME webmail.secureserver.net mobilemail 3600 IN CNAME mobilemail-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net email 3600 IN CNAME email.secureserver.net imap 3600 IN CNAME imap.secureserver.net mail 3600 IN CNAME pop.secureserver.net pop 3600 IN CNAME pop.secureserver.net smtp 3600 IN CNAME smtp.secureserver.net ftp 3600 IN CNAME @ files 3600 IN CNAME login.secureserver.net fax 3600 IN CNAME login.secureserver.net calendar 3600 IN CNAME login.secureserver.net ; NS Records @ 3600 IN NS ns29.domaincontrol.com @ 3600 IN NS ns30.domaincontrol.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Does the server hosting stats.weblyize.com know that it should also host www.whatever? Have you waited long enough for the DNS changes to propagate? Also, it'd help to know the domain name (means we could test it ourselves). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 How would stats.weblyize.com know if it should host it? From what I was told it should have to know... the one that I am setting the CNAME for is http://cleep.us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Right now, www.cleep.us "works" (does not show the GoDaddy page) for me. How would stats.weblyize.com know if it should host it? From what I was told it should have to know... A CNAME says "this website can be accessed at whatever server [iP address] hosts X". So right now your DNS says www.cleep.us can be accessed at the same server that hosts stats.weblyize.com. The browser then has to look up where that server is (I get 24.179.144.72). Next the browser starts sending HTTP requests. It'll send a request for "www.cleep.us" to 24.179.144.72. If that server does not know how to host "www.cleep.us" then it'll probably (a) complain that it doesn't know how to host that website, or (b) show whatever it considers to be the "default" website. In this situation it does the latter, which is the most common choice. So, what are you trying to do? What do you mean "it should have to know"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 hmm, so now it does work... I set it up about 24 hours ago, and it finally decided to work, I did remove the A name and a few other thing though maybe that made it work. So why does: www.cleep.us work but cleep.us not work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Mmm I don't know if this will help at all because I'm definitely no expert on the subject... but most of the CNAMEs I've worked with are usually the full address followed by a period: my.domain.com.CNAME another.domain.com. In your case it should look something like this, no? cleep.us. 3600 IN CNAME stats.weblyize.com www.cleep.us. 3600 IN CNAME stats.weblyize.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Mmm I don't know if this will help at all because I'm definitely no expert on the subject... but most of the CNAMEs I've worked with are usually the full address followed by a period: my.domain.com.CNAME another.domain.com. In your case it should look something like this, no? cleep.us. 3600 IN CNAME stats.weblyize.com www.cleep.us. 3600 IN CNAME stats.weblyize.com And to answer your question on why it doesn't work - it's because there is no entry for just your normal domain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 it won't let me use those 2 as a host, it says they are invalid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 You might need it without the trailing period. Some hosts require, some automatically add it, some are just stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 with/without, neither work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicken Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Mmm I don't know if this will help at all because I'm definitely no expert on the subject... but most of the CNAMEs I've worked with are usually the full address followed by a period: my.domain.com.CNAME another.domain.com. The zone file has an origin (base domain name) to it, in this case it is CLEEP.US. When you don't end an entry with a period, that entry is pre-fixed to the origin and that is used as the full domain. So: www 3600 IN CNAME blah.com will be interpreted by the dns server as www.CLEEP.US. and bleh.blah 3600 IN A 1.2.3.4 would be bleh.blah.CLEEP.US. If you end an entry in a period then it is considered a fully qualified domain and not prefixed, so you have to include everything. My understanding is, however, that the domain specified as the CNAME should have a period after it, as in: www 3600 IN CNAME stats.weblyize.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 adding the period after stats.weblyize.com. is invalid. (says godaddy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 Got it, I just set up a forward cleep.us -> www.cleep.us -> stats.weblyize.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Mmmm.. you know I didn't say this earlier but... ewwww GoDaddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Mmmm.. you know I didn't say this earlier but... ewwww GoDaddy. I was going to. Wanted to say "well your first problem is using GoDaddy" but I held my tongue. But now that the question's answered: Well Little Guy, your first problem is using GoDaddy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 What is wrong with Godaddy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 What is wrong with Godaddy? What isn't? ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 What is wrong with Godaddy? What isn't? ha! Oh thank you that answers all the questions! but seriously what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 My main beefs with them: They provide little to no flexibility with most of their services Their prices have always seemed high to me for the level of quality it is Their UI is absolutely horrendous and takes 10x longer to navigate through to do the smallest of tasks They supported SOPA They've tried on many attempts to call me to market more items (they also send a higher than required amount of emails, which can be tricky to opt-out of) Yes, for first-timers or those that have a lot of clients already on GoDaddy and don't want to move, sure I can understand that. But personally, I moved everything away from them as soon as I realized how much I hated it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 And their commercials are sleazier than Trojan's and Axe's. Hell, sleazier than commercials for 1-900 services. They supported SOPA They still do, just not publicly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rommeo Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Mmmm.. you know I didn't say this earlier but... ewwww GoDaddy. I was going to. Wanted to say "well your first problem is using GoDaddy" but I held my tongue. But now that the question's answered: Well Little Guy, your first problem is using GoDaddy... I was planning to use godaddy, has just seen this topic.. Which vendor do you recommend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Depends on your needs: Web hosts Domain registrars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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