I have feed.foodschmood.com
configured according to Amazon's instructions (a CNAME to one of their endpoints, which is itself a CNAME), but I'm skeptical that this is a "proper" configuration. Admittedly, things do seem to work. I get some warning signs, though. All the automated DNS checkers report errors with it.
E.g., Pingdom reports, "Delegation not found at parent. No delegation could be found at the parent, making your zone unreachable from the Internet."
Is this normal? Or is there a problem? "Parent" can mean a couple different things in DNS, and this is a little beyond my experience. My DNS configuration is very simple:
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;feed.foodschmood.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
feed.foodschmood.com. 86400 IN CNAME feed.foodschmood.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com.
feed.foodschmood.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com. 60 IN CNAME s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com.
s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com. 60 IN A 54.231.160.27
I manage my DNS using Linode's service, and it's always been solid and error-free. The root domain, foodschmood.com
, is an A record.