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I've got the domain dean.technology connected to an azure web server but accessing http://dean.technology/ returns an error ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED.

On the DNS server I have successfully pointed sub-domain to different servers and event attached www, cookies, and * as possible sub-domain. Since I've pointed the * sub-domain I can access my website using any sub-domain. I want and it will load the page ie:

wget http://stack.dean.technology/ => 200 OK
wget http://overflow.dean.technology/ => 200 OK
wget http://isGreat.dean.technology/ => 200 OK

but still cannot access the dean.technology. What do you think is going wrong?

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    +1 for not being paranoid and actually providing useful information in the question.
    – qasdfdsaq
    Commented Nov 3, 2015 at 12:31

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You have correctly set up the subdomains in DNS, but not the "root" A record.

When I do a "dig dean.technology A" it does not return a result, however doing a "dig stack.dean.technology A" does.

You need to add the appropriate records for "dean.technology". I've not used azueredns, but you probably need to repeat the steps you took for .dean.technology, and repeat them, but leave out the "" character.

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  • I've created an A-Record on my DNS provider 40.113.81.82 which is what azure asks for (and to create a CNAME resource record with your DNS provider that points from either www.yourdomain.com to deanmeehanblog.azurewebsites.net) and is how I got any domains working. Azure then lets you add these "verified" addresses to the list of domain names for the server.
    – Dean Meehan
    Commented Nov 3, 2015 at 1:27
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    The thing is you have not created a valid A record for "dean.technology" (and you can't use a CNAME) Try adding a subdomain called "@" with an A record pointng to 40.113.81.82 and see if that works - Based on azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/… I think it will.
    – davidgo
    Commented Nov 3, 2015 at 5:34
  • Thanks alot, finally got around to changing it. Do you know what does the @ symbol actually do in DNS in my case?
    – Dean Meehan
    Commented Nov 4, 2015 at 12:34
  • The @ symbol specifies “the root of the zone (domain)“ ie as opposed to a subdomain.
    – davidgo
    Commented Nov 4, 2015 at 16:58

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