LinuxQuestions.org - Unable to connect to virtual host,please help!

i have been at this for more than 2 1/2 hours and it still doesnt work. ive been trying to simply get a virtual host running through apache. i went into /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and made a virtual hosts entry -

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@ccis2122.com
DocumentRoot /home/erik/Desktop/website
ServerName hostlist.ccis2122.com
</VirtualHost>

i made an entry in my dns -

$TTL 86400
@ 0 IN SOA ns.ccis2122.com. root.ns.ccis2122.com. (

1 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh (8 hours)
14400 ; Retry (4 hours)
604800 ; Expire (1 week)
86400 ; Minimum TTL (1 day)
)
0 IN NS ns.ccis2122.com.
0 IN MX 10 mail.ccis2122.com.
ccis2122.com. 0 IN A 10.10.3.17
hostlist.ccis2122.com. 0 IN A 10.10.3.17

here is my /etc/hosts - (didnt know if i needed to or not)

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
::1 Thisismyname localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain linuxtwo
10.10.3.17 www-support.ccis2122.com
10.10.3.17 www-sales.ccis2122.com
10.10.3.17 www-eng.ccis2122.com
10.10.3.17 hostlist.ccis2122.com

my iptables are allowing everything -

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

anything else you need to know just ask. whenever i go into a browser and type "hostlist.ccis2122.com" it says unable to connect. i have my index.html in the right folder with file permissions 755 on the folder and the file (if that even matters). Thx.