Moderator
Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
It’s your DNS records that’s currently broken for me.
$ dig www.learningtoflourish.co.uk
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.learningtoflourish.co.uk. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.learningtoflourish.co.uk. 877 IN CNAME learningtoflourish.co.uk.learningtoflourish.co.uk.
learningtoflourish.co.uk.learningtoflourish.co.uk. 900 IN A 66.147.244.219
The www points to a CNAME “learningtoflourish.co.uk.learningtoflourish.co.uk.
learningtoflourish.co.uk.learningtoflourish.co.uk” which is probably not exactly what you wanted.
The DNS A record learningtoflourish.co.uk
doesn’t exist.
Good thing you’re using a small TTL of 900 seconds for your records. It’ll be useful when you fix it. 😉
Thanks! How can I fix this? When I open my zone file for editing, everything looks ok?:
@ 28800 IN MX 3 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
shortlinks 10800 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
mail 900 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
calendar 900 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
@ 28800 IN MX 3 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@ 28800 IN MX 5 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
start 10800 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
@ 28800 IN MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
docs 900 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
www 900 IN CNAME learningtoflourish.co.uk
learningtoflourish.co.uk 900 IN A 66.147.244.219
@ 28800 IN MX 5 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ 28800 IN MX 5 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ 28800 IN MX 5 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
Moderator
Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
Make a backup copy of your zone in case my advice is horrible. 😉
It’s these lines.
www 900 IN CNAME learningtoflourish.co.uk
learningtoflourish.co.uk 900 IN A 66.147.244.219
Try changing it to read
www 900 IN CNAME learningtoflourish.co.uk.
learningtoflourish.co.uk. 900 IN A 66.147.244.219
See the “.” affter the .co.uk? That makes the two records explicit, meaning don’t append the domain at the end.
Don’t forget to increment the zone serial number too.
Thanks Jan! Devil in the details…
Moderator
Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
You’re welcome.
A misplaced “.” can ruin your day. Keeping the DNS record TTL low like that is a good safety precaution and let’s you fix mistakes in… 900 seconds. 😉