Domain Pointers Not Working

[Kav]

Hi,

When I add domains in "Domain Pointers", I follow the instructions here: http://www.site-helper.com/misc.html#pointers but the domains never resolve. I have the nameservers for the domains all set correctly. I have "Set as Alias" checked (I want it to be an alias, not redirect). The primary domain I use is actiongamemaker.com. I have several I'm trying to park. One example is agmaker.org. These are the settings I have for it in DirectAdmin:

agmaker.org. A 69.42.223.167
ftp A 69.42.223.167
localhost A 127.0.0.1
mail A 69.42.223.167
pop A 69.42.223.167
www A 69.42.223.167
agmaker.org. NS ns1.everydns.net
agmaker.org. NS ns2.everydns.net
mail MX 10
agmaker.org. TXT "v=spf1 a mx ip4:69.42.223.167 ?all"

Any ideas?

 

[tillo]

I think that you made a bit of confusion.
Either you use the DNS service in DA or you use everydns.net, not both of them.

I can see that your actual setup is using everydns.net right now (the org. zone has ns1.everydns.net. and ns2.everydns.net. as nameservers for agmaker.org.), so the domain must be set exactly as you copy/pasted, but in your account on http://www.everydns.net/.
Both nameservers aren't responsive when asking for your domain at the moment, so my guesses are that you didn't set any record/setting for your account or that you found a bug in their service

I can also see in the homepage that they ask everyone to use all four nameservers, so I suggest you do that. This will help them distribute the traffic, and probably help you keep your free account (this may also be the reason for which your domain doesn't resolve, if they do it on purpose).

 

[Kav]

Thanks for your reply. My domains are registered through Godaddy, so I've never used everydns.net. All of the domains I'm using, including the primary one (which works) has 2 nameservers set: ns1.everydns.net and ns2.everydns.net.

 

[tillo]

Godaddy is your registrar, everydns.net is your nameserver service; they are two separate things, and you use them both.

It's true anyway, actiongamemaker.com is setup through Godaddy to use the same everydns.net nameservers but it seems to work ok, so it's probably a misconfiguration or a bug. Write to everydns.net support and ask to look at it.

Here are both results:

$ dig +trace actiongamemaker.com
[...]
actiongamemaker.com.    172800  IN      NS      ns1.everydns.net.
actiongamemaker.com.    172800  IN      NS      ns2.everydns.net.
;; Received 117 bytes from 192.52.178.30#53(K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 4 ms

actiongamemaker.com.    3600    IN      A       69.42.223.167
actiongamemaker.com.    86400   IN      NS      ns1.everydns.net.
actiongamemaker.com.    86400   IN      NS      ns2.everydns.net.
actiongamemaker.com.    86400   IN      NS      ns3.everydns.net.
actiongamemaker.com.    86400   IN      NS      ns4.everydns.net.
;; Received 201 bytes from 208.76.56.56#53(ns1.everydns.net) in 169 ms

$ dig +trace agmaker.org
[...]
agmaker.org.            86400   IN      NS      ns1.everydns.net.
agmaker.org.            86400   IN      NS      ns2.everydns.net.
agmaker.org.            86400   IN      NS      ns3.everydns.net.
agmaker.org.            86400   IN      NS      ns4.everydns.net.
;; Received 113 bytes from 199.19.56.1#53(A0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.INFO) in 172 ms

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

I see you changed the agmaker.org nameserver entries at your registrar to comply with everydns.net whishes, but that didn't solve the problem.

 

[Kav]

It's true anyway, actiongamemaker.com is setup through Godaddy to use the same everydns.net nameservers but it seems to work ok, so it's probably a misconfiguration or a bug.

When you say misconfiguration, do you mean by my host or me? I'm not the server admin, I'm hosted by a friend who owns the server.

 

[tillo]

I meant a misconfiguration of the DNS software at everydns.net, either triggered by some wrong setup on your part in the web panel interface, or a "bug" in their side.
There may also be a limit on the number of domains and/or records you can have for free, or a rate limit, or a number of other very unlikely causes which I won't take the time to list

Anyway, you will just have to ask them: "why do your nameservers fall in timeout when doing a query on my domain, agmaker.org?". Their answer will clarify the situation.

 

[Kav]

I figured it out. I had to manually set the info at everydns.net (my host didn't do it I guess ¬_¬), so everything's working fine. Thanks for your help.