Nice. I never even knew that one existed. I guess my command line skills
are old school. In the span of Unix OS time, dig is a somewhat recent thing.
CB
On 7/21/13 6:41 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
Another command I like to use for this sort of thing is dig. I understand it it
is supposed to be a replacement for nslookup. Anyway, I'm glad it is available
on the Mac.
On Jun 25, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
You can inspect some stuff while you're waiting to make sure things are set up
right using terminal. Start by doing
nslookup
and hit return. Normally this lets you put in an address, like
www.caraquinn.com and it will tell you the IP address of your DNS server and
the IP address of the server your computer connects to to retrieve a page after
the line 'Non-authoritative answer'. It's non-authoritative because you are
asking your DNS who asked the DNS of caraquinn.com what the answer was and then
cached it. So you're one step removed from the source and it might be old
information. To get closer to the source we can find out who does DNS for
caraquinn.com. The way I do it is to look up the mx record for a domain which
will include the DNS server that is authoritative for that domain. So type
set type=mx
and hit return. Now when you put in a domain like caraquinn.com it will tell you who has
all the authoritative DNS info for that domain in the lines after "Authoritative
answers can be found from". Most sites will have more than one DNS for reliability
and ideally the best one is listed first. In the case of caraquinn.com that would be
ns58.1and1.com. So now I can tell nslookup to talk to ns58.1and1.com instead of the DNS
from my local ISP. To do that I would type
server sn58.1and1.com
and hit return. Then any queries I make will be asking the caraquinn.com
authoritative DNS server instead of my local ISP's DNS server. So now I wand to
switch back to getting name server address records so I type
set type=a
and hit return. Now I can type in
www.caraquinn.com
it spits back 74.208.159.32, which should be the IP address of the server
responding to requests sent to www.caraquinn.com. So if you do all this I would
check that your authoritative DNS has the right IP to www.whatever.com mapping
since that's where all the other DNS machines are going for answers. If that is
correct but your local DNS has it wrong then it's just a cache/propagation
problem. My experience is changes don't take more than an hour and often float
around in a matter of minutes. Note that this stuff can get complicated fast
with content delivery networks, multiple servers answering to the same web
address, cnames (like aliases that map to the same server) and more. Hope this
helps nail down the issue.
CB
On 6/24/13 9:16 PM, Mike wrote:
Hi everyone,
I need help with fixing a broken website.
My domain name is registered through Wordpress.com but self hosted at dream
host.
Well apparently my automatic renewal of the domain name wasn't set up after all
and it expired last night.
I've since renewed it but when the url is visited it takes me back to the old
Wordpress blog I was using originally not the self hosted site.
I am guessing that the dns settings pointing the domain name to dream host
broke when the domain expired and now I don't know how to fix it.
I refreshed the domain on dream host but it hasn't helped.
Can anyone give me some other things to try here? I am lost now.
Feel free to email me off list.
Skype or facetime are options too it they're needed.
Thanks for any help.
Mike
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