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MBAPro:~ garethhowell$ dig domoticz

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> domoticz
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63541
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;domoticz.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
domoticz.		0	IN	A	172.29.12.220

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 172.29.12.7#53(172.29.12.7)
;; WHEN: Fri Jul  7 19:11:05 2017
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 42

MBAPro:~ garethhowell$ dig dashticz

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> dashticz
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27308
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dashticz.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dashticz.		0	IN	CNAME	domoticz.
domoticz.		0	IN	A	172.29.12.220

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 172.29.12.7#53(172.29.12.7)
;; WHEN: Fri Jul  7 19:11:12 2017
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 64

MBAPro:~ garethhowell$ ping domoticz
PING domoticz.agdon.net (172.29.12.220): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.29.12.220: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.703 ms
64 bytes from 172.29.12.220: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.798 ms
64 bytes from 172.29.12.220: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=2.929 ms
^C
--- domoticz.agdon.net ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.703/2.143/2.929/0.557 ms
MBAPro:~ garethhowell$ ping dashticz
ping: cannot resolve dashticz: Unknown host
MBAPro:~ garethhowell$ ping dashticz.agdon.net
ping: cannot resolve dashticz.agdon.net: Unknown host
MBAPro:~ garethhowell$ ping dashticz.
PING domoticz (172.29.12.220): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.29.12.220: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.083 ms
64 bytes from 172.29.12.220: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.760 ms