plz help me!

[Innocentius]

I have registered a domain and I use mydomain.com to forward it to my website, I have wrote the name servers (ns1.mydomain.com for example) where it should be written. My domain does still not work.. why?? plz help me...

[Albert]

Go to your registrar and change the dns to mydomain. Then you have to wait 1-2 or maybe more days till whois (i.e. domainwhitepages.com) works.

[Innocentius]

i have already done that i think, so now it's just for me to wait, right?

[Albert]

Probably.

If you have access to a linux account, you can type:

nslookup [yoursubdomain.]yourdomain.tld and it has too show the dns-servers, of mydomain.

If it doesn't you can type
nslookup [yoursubdomain.]yourdomain.tld" ns1.mydomain.com
nslookup [yoursubdomain.]yourdomain.tld" [any_dns_server.tld]

If you want you can send me an email or post your domain here and I will check it for you.

[patrickw]

The first thing you should check (obviously) is to make sure that the domain is actually registered and shows up in the WHOIS records of the registrar you used.

Since DNS changes take time to make it all over the net, a good tool to use to check your settings is at

http://www.network-tools.com/

From there, you can check your DNS records. For instance, freewebspace.net shows the following:

Answer records
freewebspace.net 1 NS NS1.MAXIMUMSERVER.COM 172800s
freewebspace.net 1 NS NS2.MAXIMUMSERVER.COM 172800s

Authority records
freewebspace.net 1 NS NS1.MAXIMUMSERVER.COM 172800s
freewebspace.net 1 NS NS2.MAXIMUMSERVER.COM 172800s

Additional records
NS1.MAXIMUMSERVER.COM 1 A 66.33.36.26 172800s
NS2.MAXIMUMSERVER.COM 1 A 66.33.36.27 172800s


You can also perform WHOIS lookups with close to 100 different whois servers.

[Albert]

Originally posted by patrickw
http://www.network-tools.com/


Good url, thanks.