My DNS zone file contains (amongst other things)

   * 10800 IN A 83.231.225.3
   client-rackspacetemp 10800 IN A 5.79.33.240
   client-contentintegration2 900 IN CNAME client-rackspacetemp

But I get the following from bash:

   [owen@plum ~]$ host client-contentintegration2.id-staging.com
   client-contentintegration2.id-staging.com has address 83.231.225.3
   client-contentintegration2.id-staging.com is an alias for client-rackspacetemp.id-staging.com.
   client-contentintegration2.id-staging.com is an alias for client-rackspacetemp.id-staging.com.
   [owen@plum ~]$ host client-rackspacetemp.id-staging.com
   client-rackspacetemp.id-staging.com has address 5.79.33.240
   [owen@plum ~]$ ping client-contentintegration2.id-staging.com
   PING client-contentintegration2.id-staging.com (83.231.225.3): 56 data bytes
   ^C

If the DNS has replicated enough for bash to recognise the CNAME alias, why is it pinging the IP from the * A record, not the client-rackspacetemp A record?