how to create CName record?

[pawan]

I have created a Cname record in ISPCONFIG3 dns like this in test domain


record type CName
Name - cdn
data - testdomainalias.cdn.com

but when querying dns record using dig, no CName record is showing up for the testdomain.

I have used all combinations, but none worked.

dig any testdomain.com
dig cname testdomain.com

dig @localhost any testdomain.com
dig @localhost cname testdomain.com

please note that I am getting answers for other records like A records, mx records, txt records. etc.

Please help I must be missing something.

Regards

[till]

You missed to add the dot at the end of testdomainalias.cdn.com. It has to be:

testdomainalias.cdn.com.

and not

testdomainalias.cdn.com

[pawan]

Originally Posted by till

You missed to add the dot at the end of testdomainalias.cdn.com. It has to be:

testdomainalias.cdn.com.

and not

testdomainalias.cdn.com

I am sorry to leave the dot in my post. but I have included dot as mentioned by you i.e. I have created the dns record as testdomainalias.cdn.com. still I am facing the the problem.

However I have not included the dot in the name part that is it is kept as cdn and not cdn. but the data field is testdomainalias.cdn.com.

What else could be wrong.

[pawan]

Solved
I am really sorry.
The problem was my quering the DNS.

instead of querying testdomain.com I should have queried cdn.testdomain.com to get the correct answer.