For the past week or so I tried to submit my sitemap to yahoo site explorer and I seem to be unsuccessful at getting it authenticated. Here is the error that I get: Failed to authenticate your site ownership due to the following reasons: The hostname could not be DNS resolved. Please check your site's DNS setup. My sitemap is perfectly accepted in Google and has no problems with DNS/Hostname issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Were you able to find a resolution about your issue yet? If not, refer to this article: http://groups.google.com/group/sites-help-howtoadmin/browse_thread/thread/8b10791972c8affa This should help you out.
Had you checked your Windows server. This kind problem is special shown in. AD users can authenticate according to the trust.
what kind of hosting? more info would be nice to answer. 1. did u use the meta tag or verification file method? 2. what kind of BIND/DNS system you use if your IIS/HTTPD is self-configured 3. have you ever flush dns in ipconfig? so on so on.. i am not an expert, but yahoo site explorer authentication is verified instantly.
I also can't get the meta tag to work with Yahoo... have tried many times on my Blogger account! Must be some kind of bug as I did the same with the MSN meta tag this morning and it worked fine. Without authenticating, you can still study a few areas of your sites anyway.