Subdomain mapping failed

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  firozcd · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 5:58 pm

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  Can’t map my subdomain, keep getting error ‘DNS CNAME for blog.crowddefend.com needs to point to crowddefend.wordpress.com.’ even though I already added the CNAME record and its been over 12 hours so DNS should have propagated.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 9, 2015 at 12:22 am

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  I’m not seeing a record of a domain mapping purchase under the account your are posting from. So that could be the issue unless you have second WordPress.com user account.

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  firozcd · Member · Jan 9, 2015 at 2:59 am

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  Thanks for reaching out! I think my description was a little incomplete. I’ve been trying to purchase a subdomain mapping. I’d like to map my subdomain of blog.crowddefend.com to my blog at crowddefend.wordpress.com. But when I try to complete the purchase is when I get the error saying ‘DNS CNAME for blog.crowddefend.com needs to point to crowddefend.wordpress.com.’ I’ve created the CNAME record though my domain registrar and everything in DNS looks fine so I don’t understand why my purchase keeps failing.

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  firozcd · Member · Jan 9, 2015 at 3:44 am

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  firoz@firoz-ubuntu:~/dev/crowddefend$ dig blog.crowddefend.com
  
  ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.1-Ubuntu <<>> blog.crowddefend.com
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54768
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
  
  ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
  ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1280
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;blog.crowddefend.com.		IN	A
  
  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  blog.crowddefend.com.	14400	IN	CNAME	crowddefend.wordpress.com.
  crowddefend.wordpress.com. 14355 IN	CNAME	lb.wordpress.com.
  lb.wordpress.com.	61	IN	A	192.0.78.13
  lb.wordpress.com.	61	IN	A	192.0.78.12
  
  ;; Query time: 299 msec
  ;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1)
  ;; WHEN: Thu Jan 08 19:00:26 PST 2015
  ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 134

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 9, 2015 at 5:34 pm

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  I wonder if the CNAME just hadn’t properly propagated through the internet yet. Can you give it another try? If it fails again, I will see if I can push it through on my end.

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  firozcd · Member · Jan 9, 2015 at 6:33 pm

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  I just tried again and the purchase is still failing. Would really appreciate anything you can do on your end.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 9, 2015 at 6:46 pm

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  I’ve added it in on my end. Take a look.

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  firozcd · Member · Jan 9, 2015 at 6:53 pm

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  Awesome, thanks so much, its working!

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 9, 2015 at 7:01 pm

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  Happy to help.