eliokh Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Hello, i've recently purchased a domain name from godaddy (from about 2 hours). and then i hosted the website for free on (webfreehosting.net). When visiting mydomain.com, i was receiving the default goddady page with promotional offers. I then changed the name servers in go daddy to math the name servers of the free hosting. I received a notice that the change may take up to 72 hours to appear. When visiting my domain, and after changing the name servers, i continued to receive the godaddy default page for about 1 hour. But now i am receiving : Server not found Error. Is this normal? Or I made a certain error in the proces? thank you in advance for your response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pow Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Be patient, it should work Might just take some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliokh Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 Anybody?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James812 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 It can take a few hours to propagate through the root dns servers down. Give it time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliokh Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 Be patient, it should work Might just take some time. thanks :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Sometimes it helps to flush your DNS as well in your computer. Also, go here to see where your site is in migrating: http://leafdns.com/ or http://www.whatsmydns.net to see the migration process. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted June 23, 2012 MVC Share Posted June 23, 2012 Yeah DNS Servers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliokh Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 Sometimes it helps to flush your DNS as well in your computer. Also, go here to see where your site is in migrating: http://leafdns.com/ or http://www.whatsmydns.net to see the migration process. :) hi. thanks for your reply. Im receiving the following result. any hint? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted June 23, 2012 Subscriber² Share Posted June 23, 2012 I wouldn't bother looking into it I would just wait. It can take up to 24 hours at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
articuno1au Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 We moved 25 records off of GoDaddy to a new host and it took about 30 hours to have hit 80% of our customers DNS servers. Don't worry, you are still within the bounds of normality. Read this spoiled in 30 hours if it's not working: I would also check, if you are using free web hosting, that you are pointing your domain to the right place. For instance: Domain1.com and Domain2. com both point to 1.1.1.1 and are both served by the same computer. Difference is that the computer knows which page to serve to requests for each domain. If you typed in 1.1.1.1 you would get an error page (unless 1.1.1.1 had been set to show a certain page). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
episode Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 GoDaddy is usually instant (or close to it) when you change DNS these days. I made a DNS change on a client's domain (switching hosts for my business) on their GoDaddy registered domain, and it changed within 2 minutes, and was verifiable through mxtoolbox as changed that quickly. What is the domain in question? Are you sure you don't have to change something on the host's end? I haven't dealt with a free host in ~10+ years, so I have no idea how complicated they make the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 hi. thanks for your reply. Im receiving the following result. any hint? Well, try loading up the ns1.your-hosting.net and it SHOULD resolve to a default web page. It is not resolving which means the web host didn't register those name servers properly or their DNS pointers are off. I tried to directly access their server at the following ip's and it didn't resolve either: 83.125.20.91 82.197.131.11 If all is set up properly, accessing those addresses SHOULD post a default web page for their web hosting. I am betting that at this time the problem is on their end. The fact that you can't resolve to a server would be correct since in the internet's mind - this doesn't exist on the web, or the server is down. A ping of the your-hosting.net yields: PING webfreehosting.net (174.137.153.253): 56 data bytes64 bytes from 174.137.153.253: icmp_seq=0 ttl=45 time=91.142 ms That IP would be correctly resolving to the 174.137.153.253. I don't know how many ip's they have, but If it is shared free hosting, then you will be on the same server as others. Ruling the server being down (They would have a lot of angry people at the moment otherwise), then someone there might have been number-dislexic and might have keyed in the wrong IP in their welcome emails. OR, they might have changed IP's for their name servers and failed to update the welcome email. Try this - http://174.137.153.253/~name (Where ~name is your account name created). If this is on a cPanel server, then it should resolve your account fine. If not, then the account is not on that IP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasarson Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 It can take a few hours to propagate through the root dns servers down. Give it time. +1 or something went wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 GoDaddy is usually instant (or close to it) when you change DNS these days. I made a DNS change on a client's domain (switching hosts for my business) on their GoDaddy registered domain, and it changed within 2 minutes, and was verifiable through mxtoolbox as changed that quickly. Yeah locally at GoDaddy the change would be almost instant and mxtoolbox is going to look at the domain register to resolve the NS records, so yeah.. It's going to take time for his ISP's records to update or whatever DNS servers he is using.. it is never "instant" with 3rd party DNS servers outside of the host name register. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasarson Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Yeah locally at GoDaddy the change would be almost instant and mxtoolbox is going to look at the domain register to resolve the NS records, so yeah.. It's going to take time for his ISP's records to update or whatever DNS servers he is using.. it is never "instant" with 3rd party DNS servers outside of the host name register. +1 not too long ago i helped move an online store to a better server. some changes were almost instant.... others not so much. one customer called complaining about how he could access the site from work but from none of his pcs at home. it just takes time to really push through everything. if you typed in all the ip addresses correctly it's just going to take time to propagate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveLegg Developer Posted June 24, 2012 Developer Share Posted June 24, 2012 Are you sure that ns1.your-hosting.net and ns2.your-hosting.net are the correct values to use? They sound to me like they're more likely to be example values provided at godaddy. Check in the domain manager of your hosting account, it should list the NS settings you need to use. If in doubt, post a screenshot of that page here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
articuno1au Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 http://your-hosting.net/ It exists, so it might not be random >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveLegg Developer Posted June 24, 2012 Developer Share Posted June 24, 2012 http://your-hosting.net/ It exists, so it might not be random >.< You're right, and it is the same company, worth checking though, dunno why I didn't bother trying to load it myself lol. Could you post the domain name you're having issues with, so we can check what the problem is (assuming it hasn't fully replicated between when you first posted and now) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted June 24, 2012 MVC Share Posted June 24, 2012 What is the domain? And I can check - PM it too me if you don't what it public. Here is the thing, as soon as godaddy updates roots you would be able to resolve it if you ask the right servers. Problem is depending on what the TTL of the NS records were, and the ttl of the actual records some people will not be able to resolve the new host. What was the TTLs for the NS records and your other records? Again if you gave me the domain name I could check these things for you. There is huge misconception on how long changes in dns take.. They are INSTANT!!! You just have TTLs to wait to time out, but if I make a change on the authoritative server, it takes place instantly!! If I query that server. Now godaddy is pretty good with making updates to the roots for stuff like this, I would say no more than a few hours. I moved my domains off them in less then 2 hours. So you say your nameservers are ns1 and ns2.your-hosting.net, then you should be able to query them NOW for your domain and records. And you can always ask root servers directly for the NS of your domain, or just do a whois to see what is listed for the NS of a domain, etc. It all comes down to the TTLs you had setup on your old records on how fast anyone on the planet would resolve the new stuff once godaddy updates the roots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliokh Posted June 25, 2012 Author Share Posted June 25, 2012 It worked the next day. thanks for your replies :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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