CNAME not working for www
Apology if this is in the wrong location but this is my first post. I will try and supply as much information as I have before I describe the two issues I am experiencing. I manage a number of domain names but the most recent one I setup with my provider is through cPanel. It had the hosting and email setup for me by default. At that stage if I browsed to the website it went to Index of/ and lists a file called cgi.bin which I believe is the site within cPanel. I decided to host the website for the client on my Windows VM web server (IIS10). I set this up on the server as I have done for several other websites and I created two bindings (1) Type = http, Host Name = mydomainname.com.au, IP Address = All Unassigned, Port 80. (2) Type = http, Host Name = www.mydomainname.com.au so I added in a CNAME record for www.mydomainname.com.au is resolving to mydomainname.com.au. If I open a web browser on my computer and browse to www. In the past when I wasn't using cPanel I would enter two A records, one for mydomainname.com.au and one for www but I found this different in cPanel as when you enter www it automatically appends it with the domain name. I even tried removing the CNAME record and replacing it with another A record for
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Update: if i browse to www.mydomainname.com.au I get ping request could not find www.mydomainname.com.au Please check the name and try again. 0 -
This morning I start up my computer and browse to www.mydomainname.com.au and the website comes up without getting that error page "This site can"t be reached. Check if there is a typo in on my desktop without any issues. If anyone has any thoughts as to why I couldn't get to the website on my own desktop computers yesterday, please let me know. 0 -
Hey there! This sounds like classic DNS propagation. Since you made the change, all the other DNS servers in the world have to pick up that change before it will be live, which also explains why it could work from some networks and not others. This all seems like completely normal behavior to me. 0
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