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Hiho, I would like to know how to have a subdomain pointing to a blogpost address and the main site pointing to a wordpress address...

My main site (http://terramel.org) is already pointing to wordpress (http://terramel.wordpress.com). Now I want to point http://opera.terramel.org to point to http://terramelopera.blogspot.com

In the cname options I choose opera in the subdomain and put ghs.google.com in that other field...

Then I put the IP of ghs.google.com to be one of the dns servers...

I also tried to use the IP of ghs.google.com in that DNS field of the cname options...

And my DNS servers are:

ns1.wordpress.com
ns2.wordpress.com
ns3.wordpress.com
ghs.google.com

Still not working... When I try to go to opera.terramel.org it just goes to terramel.org

How can I make this work? Any suggestions?

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Terramel

Wordpress's name servers work because your domain will be directed to your Wordpress blog.  But Wordpress may not allow you to add a subdomain to their DNS so that you can point your subdomain to your blog on Blogger.

If Wordpress does allow you to set up a CNAME record, then you have to enter in "opera" as the subhost or subdomain and then "ghs.google.com" as the target host.

If you intend to use ZoneEdit, you will need to specify at least 2 CNAME records.  One for subhost/domain "www" with one of Wordpress's servers as the target host, and the other for the "opera" subdomain with "ghs.google.com" as the target host.  You may also need to enter in a special case A record or CNAME record for the http://yourdomain.com URL depending on how ZoneEdit has their DNS set up.

Sorry, but this is the first domain I buy, how should I do it? Should I change the DNS and remove the wordpress nameserver and put only zonedit names? And why when I do an IP lookup the zone edit names dont return an IP?

ns8.zoneedit.com
       terramel.org
       
ip address              none
www.terramel.org
       
ip address              none
               

ns9.zoneedit.com
       terramel.org
       
ip address              none
www.terramel.org
       
ip address              none
       

See? The wordpress names work fine:

ns1.wordpress.com
       terramel.org
       
ip address              66.135.48.251
66.135.48.253
72.232.101.40
72.232.101.42
72.233.2.54
72.233.2.56
www.terramel.org
       
cname           terramel.org
       

Thanx ;D

Each name server that you set your domain to use needs to have all the subdomain entries that you want to use. So you might not be able to use Wordpress's name servers if you can't add your blogspot blog to their DNS records.

You can use the Dynadot DNS name server option and create CNAME records for your wordpress and blogspot blogs. But using our DNS requires an IP address for just the domain, and the blog services usually only provide CNAME records. A service like ZoneEdit will probably allow you to use a CNAME record for just the domain, so that may be your best choice.

One more question: Should I use a service like ZoneEdit and add their nameservers?