Cname confusion

[kates]

Can some one offer some guideance.
I am trying to set up a sub domain at my site that will point to my auctions on ebay. I followed the FAQ and deleted the http://www. preceeding the ebay page i want to go to and put the trailing dot at the end.
My subdomain is sellnow , so sell now was the alias i put in.
Hence sellnow.katesgems.com should point to my ebay auctions but it came up " invalid host or host name doesn't point anywhere" What have i done wrong can anyone suggest anything?
Cheers
Ian

[Starr]

Under the DNS tab w/in your Ops area; click on "Add CNAME" and for the "host" field, type in "sellnow", and in the "hostname" field, type in the FQDN of the host you want "sellnow.katesgems.com" to point to.

[kates]

Pardon my ignorance but what does FQDN stand for?
Cheers
Ian

[kates]

I found it on another Question on this forum FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain name".
Does this mean i must point to a host like this ? "ebay.com.au" and not this "cgi6.ebay.com.au/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItems&userid=katesgems&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=200" ?.
If so how can i point to the second one, as it is where i what to go with out using an adminder listing or such?
Any comments?
Ian

PS have a great day

[DeShawn]

I'm sure that you can't do this with CNAME entries. CNAME entries can only point to top-level domains.

You'll just have to make do with a link for now until powweb routes *.katesgems.com to your server. Hopefully when they do that, you will be able to use mod_rewrite to route that request to an html file on your site that will redirect to the ebay site you are trying to route your patrons to.

(I'd be glad to show you how to do this when powweb changes a configuration)