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Asked: 2026-05-15T01:07:34+00:00

I have set up my EC2 infrastructure behind an ELB instance and by using

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I have set up my EC2 infrastructure behind an ELB instance and by using the ELBs DNS name everything works as expected. Now i wanted to forward a subdomain of my main project domain to the ELBs DNS Name with a CNAME entry. I did this about 12 hours ago and it doesnt seem to work, and i dont know why. The subdomain just cant be resolved.

This is the DNS entry which was processed from my DNS provider without errors yesterday:

@ IN A 111.111.111.111
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
mail IN A 111.111.111.111
www IN A 111.111.111.111
ftp IN CNAME www
beta IN CNAME myelbnamehere.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
imap IN CNAME www
loopback IN CNAME localhost
pop IN CNAME www
relay IN CNAME www
smtp IN CNAME www
@ IN MX 10 mail

Using nslookup, all the subdomains and main domain gets looked up correctly, but beta.domain.com doesnt. I get “** server can’t find beta.domain.com: NXDOMAIN”

What am i doing wrong ? Do i need to wait longer ? When i use the ELB DNS name directly everything works as expected.

When i do an NSlookup on my providers DNS Server, the CNAME gets resolved, but it looks like any other DNS server cant find the subdomain

thanks in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    If that’s an exact quote from your DNS GUI, then you appear to be missing the trailing . from the entry for beta. It should read:

    beta IN CNAME myelbnamehere.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com.

    Without the ., it’ll get parsed as:

    beta IN CNAME myelbnamehere.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com.domain.com.

    which of course doesn’t exist.

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