[UPHPU] tracking domain calls

[MilesTogoe]

On 07/12/2009 08:49 AM, Chad Sollis wrote:
> Does linode act exclusively as a vps, or does it have name servers as 
> well?
>
> If linode does have name servers, then your domain needs to be 
> configured to route *.domain.com to your vps IP Address from their 
> name servers.

okay - problem solved.  Thanks for tip Chris - yes, there is a domain 
manager step in linode that I had skipped to add the domain to our 
account.    and thks Wade for the ping suggestion as a good check 
(should have been obvious but I forgot it).    Now on to routing mail to 
google apps (from suggestions in this forum).


>
> If linode does not have name servers you can do one of two things,
>
> 1) use godaddy name servers, and then use total dns control in godaddy 
> to point to your vps IP address.
>
> 2) setup an account with everydns.net (or similar), change your 
> godaddy name server settings to NS1.EVERYDNS.NET(or similar) and then 
> from everydns.net route your domain to the vps IP address.
>
> Cheers
> ~SOL
>
>
> On Jul 11, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
>
>> On 11 Jul 2009, at 18:20, MilesTogoe wrote:
>>
>>> I switched one of our domains to GoDaddy, pointing it to a linode 
>>> vps.  But the domain just hangs in space.  The godaddy account seems 
>>> to be pointed to the correct linode servers (NS1.LINODE.COM, ...).  
>>> The apache virtual domain host on our linode account seems to be right:
>>>
>>> but all I get is nothing - no errors, just nothing.  So is there any 
>>> way to trace the browser call - to see where it is trying to go ?  
>>> So I can tell if the error is on the godaddy side or the linode side ?
>>> thks for any help.
>>
>> What do you get when you ping the domain?
>>
>>
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