IP unknown - what am I doing wrong?

[Cricket Liu]

> With CNAMEs always use the FQDN after the CNAME, so:
> 
> www IN CNAME mercury.astrocalc.com.
> mail IN CNAME mercury.astrocacl.com.

That's unnecessary.  The origin is applied to domain names in
RDATA, too, so

www    IN    CNAME    mercury

would have been fine.

cricket

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