Situation:
Had registered domain via G Suite and domain synthetic records set up for gmail under another (Google) account.
Transferred the domain to a different (Google) account - gmail still working fine.
- Enabled Google Cloud services for the account.
- Set up a Compute Engine with fixed IP address.
- Set up new Zone for the domain and Cloud DNS settings.
- Reset the domain DNS to the Cloud DNS servers
- Create MX records according to instructions to reinstate gmail
- Created A record for root domain
- Created CNAME record for WWW subdomain
At this point, gmail seems to be working fine.
However, resolution for the root domain and subdomain is intermittent - it will be up for a few minutes, then drop for a few minutes.
When its alive, I can ping the root domain. I can't ping the www subdomain at all.
The domain is 'lifetreelaw.com'
Here are the dig outputs for each:
lifetreelaw.com:
; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-3ubuntu5.3-Ubuntu <<>> lifetreelaw.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25514
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;lifetreelaw.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
lifetreelaw.com. 325 IN A 34.66.70.41
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)
;; WHEN: Fri May 10 13:33:51 MDT 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 60
www.lifetreelaw.com:
; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-3ubuntu5.3-Ubuntu <<>> www.lifetreelaw.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 36100
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.lifetreelaw.com. IN A
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)
;; WHEN: Fri May 10 13:33:40 MDT 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48
For the www subroute, dig is showing an 'A' record, not the CNAME record. I haven't set that -- is there something in the G Suite/gmail setup that would have set that? That is hanging around?
Followup
I removed the www CNAME record. This is the dig output, now:
; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-3ubuntu5.3-Ubuntu <<>> www.lifetree.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60309
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.lifetree.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.lifetree.com. 4160 IN A 208.91.197.128
;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)
;; WHEN: Fri May 10 13:50:14 MDT 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61
It's still returning an A record, and resolving to a different IP.
Followup 2
Ok, after a period of time, the 'www' sub is not returning an 'A' record, anymore. But it's not returning a 'CNAME' record, either, even though I have it set.
Maybe I just need to wait it out.
