Help with DNS for external website

Maintenance
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Ok, so MIAB newbie here. Took a few false starts but I got MIAB going last night and I’m very impressed. Just a vanilla install on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu 14 1Gb box. I setup a couple of addresses and confirmed life via external clients with no problems.

Now I want to hook up my azure website in the DNS but I’m getting some pretty weird results. My domain is registered with OnlyDomains and has only 2 DNS glue entries:

ns1.box.mydomain.com 45.xx.xx.xx
ns2.box.mydomain.com 45.xx.xx.xx

To setup my azure website I need to make a CNAME record, pointing to mywebsite.azurewebsites.net. In Custom DNS I have added:

mydomain.com CNAME mywebsite.azurewebsites.net

Azure tells me that the correct CNAME record cannot be found. When I check with digwebinterface.com I get the following result:

mydomain.com. 1799 IN CNAME mywebsite.azurewebsites.net.mydomain.com.

Where did I go wrong? Or did I miss something?

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Try adding an A record pointing to your ‘mywebsite.azurewebsites.net’ IP address in your MiaB ‘custom DNS’ area instead of a CNAME.

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This was absolutely what I needed to do. Also, as I’ve come to read in many posts since, I missed the dot (.) on the end of my CNAME value. Adding it corrected the DNS resolution.

Thanks for your advice.