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Cannot get to website using domain name

I cannot see to get to my site by domain name. I can get to it by IP address fine. I am guessing that the problem is with the Bind configuration file... or maybe Apache?

This works:

Code:

$ dig @dnsserver linuxquestions.org

Which means that DNS is working.
When I type in the browser the IP this works:

Code:

http://192.168.69.221/a_test_website

But this does not work:

Code:

http://mytestwebsite.com

Here is the db.atestsite.com file.

Code:

; BIND data file for mytestsite.    

;                       

$ORIGIN dynamicdnsname.here.com 

$TTL        604800      

;Name of the primary ns and the email of the administrator.

@           IN  SOA ns.mytestsite.com. admin.mytestsite.com. (

             2012052806 ;Serial                                                       

             604800      ; Refresh

             86400       ; Retry 

            2419200     ; Expire

            604800 )    ; Negative Cache TTL

;                       

;Tells dns servers on the Internet the primary ns server that have authorit    y

             IN  NS  ns.mytestsite.com.



;Anchor records that point to your domain.

;The address localhost.mytestsite.com can only be accessed by the server itself.

localhost   IN  A       127.0.0.1



;The domain name. The number should be the Public IP address. 

;This is the address they ping or browse to http://mytestsite.com.

mytestsite.com. IN  A       201.133.69.25



;Pinging ns.mytestsite.com. would return the public IP address.

ns          IN  A       192.168.69.221



;Browsing www.mytestsite.com. would take the viewer to the site.

www         IN  A       192.168.69.221



;Makes http://www.mytestsite.com. the same as http://forum.mytestsite.com.

forum       IN  CNAME   www

Oh, btw, I am using Debian 6 and Apache2 Bind9.

I had the same issue.. make sure your router is port forwarding 80 and 53. Here is how my zone file looks, and it works perfectly.

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$TTL        3600

@       IN      SOA     ns1.mydomain.com. my.email.com. (

                        2012041603       ; serial, todays date + todays serial #

                        7200              ; refresh, seconds

                        540              ; retry, seconds

                        604800              ; expire, seconds

                        86400 )            ; minimum, seconds

;



mail           3600      A                         81.xxx.xxx.xxx

mydomain.com. 3600      A                           81.xxx.xxx.xxx

mydomain.com. 3600      MX    10                 mail.mydomain.com

mydomain.com. 3600      NS                       ns1.mydomain.com

mydomain.com. 3600      NS                       ns2.mydomain.com

www                3600      A                          81.xxx.xxx.xxx

ns1.mydomain.com. IN A 81.xxx.xxx.xxx

ns2.mydomain.com. IN A 81.xxx.xxx.xxx

Forwarding the port worked. However I am getting the domain name of the router appended to the nslookup query.

domain name = adomain.tt.net
router's domain name = extradomain.com

Look at the output under Non-authoritative answer.

Code:

C:\Documents and Settings\johnny>nslookup xyz.us.to

*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.X.X: Non-existent domain

*** Default servers are not available

Server:  UnKnown

Address:  192.168.X.X



Non-authoritative answer:

Name:    adomain.tt.net.extradomain.com

Address:  32.21.165.32

nibraz:

Why did you write 3600 in the second column? I have never seen that before.

Code:

mail           3600      A                         81.xxx.xxx.xxx

mydomain.com. 3600      A                           81.xxx.xxx.xxx

mydomain.com. 3600      MX    10                 mail.mydomain.com

mydomain.com. 3600      NS                       ns1.mydomain.com

mydomain.com. 3600      NS                       ns2.mydomain.com

www                3600      A                          81.xxx.xxx.xxx

Hi,

Are you using Cpanel or PLESK?

;Browsing www.mytestsite.com. would take the viewer to the site.
www IN A 192.168.69.221

The answer is actually pretty simple. If you change, in your dns.conf file the POINTER from
www IN A 192.168.69.221

to

mytestsite.com IN A 192.168.69.221

It should work

Hello, Please check with this.

Hi ,

First of all , You can check your website is working from local environment.

you can check through /etc/hosts entry....

/etc/hosts
IP domainname

192.168.*.* example.org