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Hello All,

 

I have been trying to set up my landing page domain and I cant seem to figure out how to do it. We currently are using godaddy as our host and I need help understanding what to use for the cname set up.

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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

A CNAME, or Alias, DNS record has 3 fundamental parts:

 

  1. the left-hand-side, a.k.a. the alias or label, a.k.a. the value that's looked up
  2. the right-hand-side, a.k.a. the CNAME, a.k.a. the result of a lookup
  3. the time-to-live, a.k.a. TTL

 

Here are some examples:

www.example.com 7200 IN CNAME someothername.example.com pages.example.com 86400 IN CNAME app-9123.example.info pages.example.net 86400 IN CNAME app-9123.example.info

 

The IN CNAME part is going to be the same for all CNAME records (and may not even be shown in a given DNS host's UI).

 

The TTL is in seconds and determines how long the right-hand-side (CNAME result) will be cached. During that period, if a server already has a result, the lookup will not run again; the previous result will be reused. You can start with a low TTL value while you're making sure things work. Then work toward at least a day (86400).

 

The left-hand-side is the Alias: that's your Marketo LP domain.

 

The right-hand-side is the CNAME: that's the canonical name, meaning the "real name" of your LP domain. This is your Account String, followed by .mktoweb.com.  You get your Account String from the Marketo UI, under Admin » Integration » Landing Pages » Settings. If your Account String is blahzay then the CNAME is  blahzay.mktoweb.com,

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SanfordWhitemanAccepted solution
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March 1, 2021

A CNAME, or Alias, DNS record has 3 fundamental parts:

 

  1. the left-hand-side, a.k.a. the alias or label, a.k.a. the value that's looked up
  2. the right-hand-side, a.k.a. the CNAME, a.k.a. the result of a lookup
  3. the time-to-live, a.k.a. TTL

 

Here are some examples:

www.example.com 7200 IN CNAME someothername.example.com pages.example.com 86400 IN CNAME app-9123.example.info pages.example.net 86400 IN CNAME app-9123.example.info

 

The IN CNAME part is going to be the same for all CNAME records (and may not even be shown in a given DNS host's UI).

 

The TTL is in seconds and determines how long the right-hand-side (CNAME result) will be cached. During that period, if a server already has a result, the lookup will not run again; the previous result will be reused. You can start with a low TTL value while you're making sure things work. Then work toward at least a day (86400).

 

The left-hand-side is the Alias: that's your Marketo LP domain.

 

The right-hand-side is the CNAME: that's the canonical name, meaning the "real name" of your LP domain. This is your Account String, followed by .mktoweb.com.  You get your Account String from the Marketo UI, under Admin » Integration » Landing Pages » Settings. If your Account String is blahzay then the CNAME is  blahzay.mktoweb.com,

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    mhardyAuthor
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    March 2, 2021

    SO what do I put in the host and points to part of the cname creation?

    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
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    March 2, 2021
    Although their terms are wrong, the "host" is the Alias and the "points to" is the CNAME.
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