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#1 2008-04-24 14:18:20

lee

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From: Normandy, France

Registered: 2004-06-17

Posts: 831

DNS help please

I’m having trouble configuring the DNS for www.lapierreronde.com. TxP diagnostic is showing: Web Domain DNS lookup fails: www.lapierreronde.com.

Although I can se the site OK, friends in the UK can’t see it.

Dns zone setting are:

1. “@” – A – 8.12.37.100
2. “@” – NS – ns0.online.net
3. “@” – NS – ns1.online.net
4. “@” – MX – 10 – mail.lapierreronde.com
5. mail – A – 8.12.37.100
6. www – A – 8.12.37.100

Best wishes
Lee

Last edited by lee (2008-04-24 14:24:17)

#2 2008-04-24 16:22:14

ruud

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From: a galaxy far far away

Registered: 2006-06-04

Posts: 5,068

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Re: DNS help please

Looks okay to me. I can visit your website and the domain whois doesn’t show any changes so unless you changed the DNS records to point to a different server without first lowering the TTL well in advance (which causes the old DNS records to be cached by nameservers for a longer time than you’d like), I see no problem.

#3 2008-04-24 19:15:21

thebombsite

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From: Exmouth, England

Registered: 2004-08-24

Posts: 3,251

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Re: DNS help please

It’s coming up OK for me Lee.

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#4 2008-04-24 19:25:08

lee

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From: Normandy, France

Registered: 2004-06-17

Posts: 831

Re: DNS help please

Cheers guys.

#5 2008-06-03 21:32:31

typeshige

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-08-11

Posts: 151

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Re: DNS help please

I’m getting the same error, but I think the site is ok!

We just switched servers. I did a rsync and mysqldump to get the files synced up. Swapped the IP addresses (new server got the old ip and vice versa) and everything looked good, except I get this error in my diagnostics:

Web Domain DNS lookup fails: astrobiology.nasa.gov
Web Domain DNS lookup fails: lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov (another txp site on the same server)

The built-in help didn’t seem to shed any light. As far as I can tell, people can visit the site. Mint statistics shows no drop in traffic.

What is being run inside Txp to produce this error?

Thanks,
Shige

#6 2008-06-04 08:25:57

ruud

Developer Emeritus

From: a galaxy far far away

Registered: 2006-06-04

Posts: 5,068

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Re: DNS help please

Diagnostics performs a gethostbyname call on the specified domain name. If it doesn’t resolve to an IPnr, you’ll get an error. Could be a local DNS problem on the server. Since you can visit the website without problems, I wouldn’t worry too much about it.