CNAME record not showing up in Lookup

[jason_85]

Hi everyone,
I am trying to park my domain using google adsense, and have good reasons for using CNAME/A record option rather than the recommended Nameserver settings (see https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=76049). Here are my records for the domain "techfree.info":

techfree.info.	14400	IN	A	216.239.32.21
techfree.info.	14400	IN	A	216.239.34.21
techfree.info.	14400	IN	A	216.239.36.21
techfree.info.	14400	IN	A	216.239.38.21
www.techfree.info.	14400	IN	CNAME	pub-9169442869980017.afd.ghs.google.com

When I do a lookup using KLOTH.NET - NSLOOKUP - DNS Look up - Find IP Address it only detects the A records, not the CNAME record. Also, my domain with google is still "pending" after 48 hours, leading me to believe that maybe there is something wrong with the settings I've used.

Any help or guidance would be much appreciated.

Jason

 

[MattLee]

Hello,

I am showing that the CNAME is being properly returned when performing a lookup for this domain.

[email protected] [~]# dig www.techfree.info +short
pub-9169442869980017.afd.ghs.google.com.
ghs.l.google.com.
74.125.47.121

and

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here is the nslookup result for www.techfree.info from server localhost, querytype=ANY :
DNS server handling your query: localhost
DNS server's address: 127.0.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.techfree.info canonical name = pub-9169442869980017.afd.ghs.google.com.
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[jason_85]

Oh right; my mistake was omitting the 'www" when searching for the CNAME record. One more question; on the google adsense for domains instructions it says that the CNAME record should be set for an alias/Hostname "www". As this is an invalid input in cPanel I've used "www.techfree.info"; is this correct?

 

[MattLee]

Hello,

That should work. You can choose to specify the domain after the www in the DNS record.