Need an A record for custom subdomain

I am helping a government agency take their Webflow website live, however their website lives on a subdomain. Here is a fictional version of the domain:

lapd.hi.gov

The tricky part is that lapd.hi.gov has its own nameservers. To go live with lapd.hi.gov, Webflow requires adding a “lapd” CNAME with a value of “proxy-ssl.webflow.com

According to the agency who runs the “lapd.hi.gov” nameservers, doing the above creates this name instead:

lapd.lapd.hi.gov

It won’t allow them to add a CNAME without a subdomain name. I imagine this is because “lapd.hi.gov” has its own nameservers so it works more like a root domain and not a subdomain of “hi.gov”? Am I incorrect here?

Is there anyway to resolve this without:

  1. Moving the nameservers back to hi.gov
  2. Waiting to see if Webflow can give me A records for “lapd.hi.gov” (I’ve already contacted support)?

Thanks in advance!

Here’s the answer Webflow support helped me with:

Delete A records for lapd.hi.gov

Create TWO (2) A Records for lapd.hi.gov :

  1. 75.2.70.75
  2. 99.83.190.102

ADD OR UPDATE CNAME record for www.lapd.hi.gov to proxy-ssl.webflow.com

Set www.lapd.hi.gov as Default domain in Hosting settings

Ignore “Issues detected” warning in Hosting settings for lapd.hi.gov

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