I'm trying to fix a DNS issue at my office. We run a local Bind server to handle requests to locally run sub domains that are only available in the office. Recently we moved our blog to wpengine.com for hosting. They also provide the ability for DNS control. Basically I need our local DNS to point office users to the wpengine site for our blog subdomain but nothing I do to our local zone file settings makes a difference. Our browsers always get directed to our primary ecom site which originally hosted the blog. I've tried adding sub domain delegation entries to our local zone file to no effect. WPengine's settings has a primary DNS config of blog.fractureme.com with a CNAME entry of fracture.wpengine.com pointing to blog.fractureme.com . I'm wondering if there's some sort of circular logic going on here with our local office, our primary and Wpengine's DNS that keeps pointing us in the office to the wrong server when we try to go to blog.fractureme.com in a browser? Our primary domain hosting service also has a CNAME zone entry that points blog.fractureme.com to fracture.wpengine.com .
Meanwhile our office zone file looks like this. (i did add * to local IP entries. I know thats probably silly trying to balance security with getting the best help). The last entry in the zone file is supposed to be directing blog.fractureme.com to the IP of fracture.wpengine.com. I've also tried a NS type entry with a 'glue' record with no luck.
;
; BIND data file for local loopback interface
;
$TTL 604800
@ IN SOA fractureme.com. root.fractureme.com. (
2 ; Serial
604800 ; Refresh
86400 ; Retry
2419200 ; Expire
604800 ) ; Negative Cache TTL
;
@ IN NS ns1.fractureme.com.
@ IN NS dns2.registrar-servers.com.
ns1 IN A 192.168.1.150
ns2 IN A 85.25.136.102
fractureme.com. IN A 64.235.53.182
* IN A 64.235.53.182
mobile IN A 64.235.53.182
itslog IN A 64.235.53.182
blog IN CNAME fracture.wpengine.com
m IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
@ IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx ptr a:fractureme.com a:mail.fractureme.com a:mail1.fractureme.com include:_spf.google.com ~all"
@ IN MX 10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@ IN MX 20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@ IN MX 20 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@ IN MX 30 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ IN MX 30 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ IN MX 30 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ IN MX 30 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
;
; Fracture private addresses
;
prod IN A x.x.x.x
raid IN A x.x.x.x
dev IN A 64.238.189.200
alex IN A x.x.x.x
caldera IN A x.x.x.x
cnc IN A x.x.x.x
laser IN A x.x.x.x
encrypted-prod IN A x.x.x.x
$ORIGIN prod.staging.fractureme.com.
* IN A 64.238.189.199
$ORIGIN itslog.fractureme.com.
* IN A 64.235.53.182
$ORIGIN mobile.fractureme.com.
* IN A 64.235.53.182
$ORIGIN dev.fractureme.com.
* IN A 64.238.189.200
$ORIGIN prod.fractureme.com.
* IN A x.x.x.x
live IN A 64.235.53.182
$ORIGIN blog.fractureme.com.
* IN A 166.78.99.121
