Trouble directing A name and subdomain to different hosts

Question

I am hosting a domain on namecheap with namecheap's DNS service.

I want to point digest.politihacks.com to politihacks.wordpress.com with a CNAME record. This works fine.

However, I also want to point the top level name politihacks.com to github's static page hosting service at 204.232.175.78. When I add the A record for this, it works as expected BUT the previous CNAME now also redirects to github instead of wordpress.

In my terminal I typed dig digest.politihacks.com and it looks like it SHOULD point to wordpress:

 ; <<>> DiG 9.7.6-P1 <<>> digest.politihacks.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39614
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;digest.politihacks.com.        IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
digest.politihacks.com. 77  IN  CNAME   politihacks.wordpress.com.
politihacks.wordpress.com. 3533 IN  CNAME   lb.wordpress.com.
lb.wordpress.com.   17  IN  A   66.155.9.238
lb.wordpress.com.   17  IN  A   76.74.254.120
lb.wordpress.com.   17  IN  A   72.233.2.58
lb.wordpress.com.   17  IN  A   72.233.69.6
lb.wordpress.com.   17  IN  A   76.74.254.123
lb.wordpress.com.   17  IN  A   66.155.11.238

;; Query time: 43 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb 28 02:02:18 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 189

But as I mentioned, visiting digest.politihacks.com in my browser redirects to my github static page. What could be wrong?

Thanks!

It would be nice to see the actual domain. – NickW Feb 28 '13 at 09:58 — NickW, Feb 28 '13 at 09:58
it's politihacks.com if that helps you – Jacob Lyles Feb 28 '13 at 10:03 — Jacob Lyles, Feb 28 '13 at 10:03
As you see, the domain helps immensely :) – NickW Feb 28 '13 at 10:14 — NickW, Feb 28 '13 at 10:14

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '13 at 10:09

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This is not a DNS problem (although there is one problem: I get "... has no A record" instead of 204.232.175.78).

What you observe with digest is caused by a http redirect (301 Moved permanently).

answered Feb 28 '13 at 10:09

Hagen von Eitzen

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 28 '13 at 10:12

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You set everything up correctly (except for politihacks.com having no A record at the moment).

The 301 redirect from digest.politihacks.com to politihacks.com is coming from the wordpress.com service. You will need to contact them to have this corrected.

answered Feb 28 '13 at 10:12

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Trouble directing A name and subdomain to different hosts

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