My website can be accessed by IP and not Domain? Well when i go to www.IPADDRESS.com/~username i can see my site, but when i go to the domain it doesnt work. I tried the nameserver but they are resolving to a different IP. My site is working on only 1 IP so what i did was create another NAMESERVER for myself and put that IP ADRESS in it. Now i set that nameserver into my domain name BUT it is still not working! The owner of the server is out of town these days.. what can i do from my side to make this working again?
New site? DNS which is what translates your domain name to its ip numbers takes 48 to 72 hours to update when you change the DNS
Make sure the following is done and wait for 48 hours: Create 2 nameservers with your IP/s Go to your Domain settings and change the nameservers to those created! Now all you have to do is wait for your ISP to referesh their DNS ... Max 48h! -NNN
If you don't feel comfortable giving out your domain you could try diagnosing yourself using dnsstuff.com
Well i created a new nameserver with the IP address my sites works on. But the nameserver does not work... How else can i target my domain name to use only 1 IP?
That's not how nameservers work. Are you running DNS? You need to point the domain to the nameserver, and the nameserver to the DNS server. Then you can set an A record in the DNS for your domain name and point that to its IP. Are you using some sort of control panel to set this up? I am guessing cPanel/WHM?
Yea i have Cpanel. I know i assigned the nameserver the IP and then added that nameserver to the domain. But it still does not work? I have created nameservers before like this and they worked fine... I dont know whats up with this..
Why don't you do a whois for your domain and see which nameservers show up? If they aren't correct, get them changed (through your registrar). If they are, then check if the nameservers are configured for your domain. That should do it.
I did that, but no use. For some reason the nameserver will not get set to the IP my site is working on..
You mean whois doesn't show the correct name servers? Which registrar are you using and how did you attempt to change the setting? Maybe the name servers you are specifying aren't registered. Most registrars don't allow you to specify unregistered name servers.
You need put your web hosting provider's DNS server to your domain's configuration. there is a domain name server setting on your domain configuration pages. If you don't your web hosting's DNS server name or IP address, ask your hosting provider. After you correctly put DNS server name to your domain registration setting, it would take a fews hours to make it work.
Go to opendns.com and do the 'cache check' on the bottom of the page. http://www.opendns.com/support/cache/ They run free dns servers that do not cache very long, so they update very quickly. Useful for adding new domains and seeing where the problem is.
Ok i found that the ns2.hostname.com was the right nameserver. So i targeted my website to that. So now i have set nameservers at: ns2.hostname.com ns3.hostname.com And i have removed the ns1 as it was targetting to a different IP. But my site is still not working? IT IS STILL GOING AFTER ns1.hostname.com IP.. when i already removed it. I have waited over 48hrs and nothing. It is only working on IP. The owner of the server is not in town and i need some help to get this working.
First of all, there are a number of issues with your DNS. A whois shows that the name servers for desivid.info are set to ns2.sonyhostings.com and ns3.sonyhostings.com. Though the first one is responsive, the second (ns3) doesn't even resolve. ns2 returns records for your domain, but the "NS" values it is returning are something entirely different. It should return "ns2.sonyhostings.com", but it returns "ns1.theservergroup.info" and "ns2.theservergroup.info" instead. Now to the IPs. ns2.sonyhostings.com returns a different IP for your domain (74.50.110.231) and the ones above return a different one (76.76.11.60). This will definitely cause your site to fail for some people and not for others. I suggest that you fix the above issues first and then move on to troubleshooting the rest.