Yesterday i added a new virtual host to apache snort.evilputty.com everything worked fine i added it to my zone via linode's dns manager .
I rebooted the server now snort doesnt resolve to anything i dont see any errors in any of my logs. anyone have any ideas?

mwalling@you ~$ dig snort.evilputty.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> snort.evilputty.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 53344
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;snort.evilputty.com.           IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
snort.evilputty.com.    3537    IN      CNAME   pengu.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       10738   IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.com. 2008041301 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 14 11:43:17 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 128

mwalling@you ~$ dig pengu.

; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> pengu.
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 56756
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pengu.                         IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       10734   IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2008041301 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 14 11:43:21 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 98

The problem isn't that snort.evilputty.com doesnt resolve, its that your CNAME points to pengu., not pengu.evilputty.com.

i fixed that 10 hours ago unfortunately it never propagated so i added it to my host list in godaddy, just woke up from my nap and its working again. i changed it from a cname to an a record, whatever its working now thanks!