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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013) by pyre on Friday January 04, 2013 @04:54PM (#5010189)
Doesn't have any A records:

  $ dig playigl.com ANY
  <snip>
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      MX      5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      MX      30 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      MX      10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      MX      10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      MX      1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      MX      5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      MX      30 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net ~all"
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      NS      ns1.dreamhost.com.
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      NS      ns3.dreamhost.com.
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      NS      ns2.dreamhost.com.
  playigl.com.            14400   IN      SOA     ns1.dreamhost.com. hostmaster.dreamhost.com. <snip>
Nameservers (Dreamhost) and Email (Sendgrid / GoogleMail)
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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013) by eyaltoledano on Saturday January 05, 2013 @01:54PM (#5013565)
Should be forwarding to beta. off CNAMEs.

Try beta.playigl.com

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013) by pyre on Saturday January 05, 2013 @02:09PM (#5013622)
beta.playigl.com and www.playigl.com have A records (same IP). playigl.com doesn't have an A record, so it doesn't resolve to anything.

As I understand it, you don't want playigl.com to have a CNAME, because then the MX records wouldn't work. You need to give it an A record, and have the webserver handle it.

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