Topic: why is my ipaddress showing in the url not my domain name?

[ldavies]

Check out http://www.boldwellies.com and http://www.lloydus.com

oth domains registered and pointing to my static IP but they can only get to my primary site because something in e-smith is tell it to use my ipaddress and not my domain name.

If anyone can help me figure it out I'd be very grateful.

The funny thing is that when I connect from the lan it all looks OK and the domain names show correctly.  This only happens when I look at the sites from outside the lan.

[tymiles]

What are you using for DNS? Sounds like a DNS problem. Sounds like it is just forwarding people to the IP address and not to the site it's self.

I know this can be a problem if you make an A record or CNAME record and add more then just the IP. Like http://192.0.1.1/home

[ldavies]

In order to host Geeklog outside an ibay I have created an alias /home which points to /opt/geekloghtml.  All my domains get pointed to the same static IP.  It used to work OK before I created the alias.  

This is very frustrating.  Does it mean I cannot host multiple domains on an e-smith (version 6.01) if I use any aliases?

[tymiles]

Well let me get some details from you?

1. Who is doing the DNS? You or a DNS provider?

2. Why did you not install Geeklog in an Ibay?

I am still thinking this is an DNS issue. But let me get the answers back from you and we can go from there!

[ldavies]

Please excuse me a bit because I am new to much of this.

1. Who is doing the DNS? You or a DNS provider?

I pay for the domains through www.godaddy.com.  They point my domains to my ip address.  After looking my account on their website I see their domain name servers are:
PARK11.SECURESERVER.NET
PARK12.SECURESERVER.NET

2. Why did you not install Geeklog in an Ibay?

The reason I did not put geeklog in an ibay is that the permissions were causing a lot of problems. I followed other recommendations and a few rpms and located it elsewhere in /opt

[tymiles]

Ok, looks like you are having some serious domain name and DNS problems.

If you go here:
http://www.zoneedit.com/lookup.html?host=lloydus.com+&type=A&server=&forward=Look+it+up
and enter your domain names and check for a (A) record (An (A) record is the IP address of the server the domain name points to)for boldwellies.com I get 64.202.167.129 and for lloydus.com I get nothing.

When you enter 64.202.167.129 into a web browser it goes to godaddy.com and not to your website.

When you enter lloydus.com into a web browser it goes to a page with a Verio ad on it.

To be honest I would go with a 3rd party free DNS service like  zoneedit.com. With zone edit you have a more control of the DNS and how your DNS is configured.

I hope this helps you. Please write back at tmiles@teesco.com if you still need anymore help with this.

[Anonymous]

To be honest I would go with a 3rd party free DNS service like  zoneedit.com. With zone edit you have a more control of the DNS and how your DNS is configured.
 

When I checked some years ago zoneedit.com would charge after so many names. www.mydomain.com is free for dns and url forwarding and email forwarding, however they have filled their site with paid items like email and web hosting so you have to look for the free items above. Sometimes scrolling off to right of screen with slider bars to find the free stuff. I re-new domains through them so I don't feel bad about using only the free services.

[ldavies]

I am an idiot..  In the post way above I should have said that my second domain name was lloydus.net not lloydus.com

Two domains are:
http://www.boldwellies.com
http://www.lloydus.net

Sorry for the error.  

I think it is not a DNS problem.

I have not said it yet but thank your for spending the time on helping me out.  I hope we can solve this.

[tymiles]

We can work this out and find out for sure.

So for your domain name lets just use www.boldwellies.com. You gave www.godaddy.com just your IP. (68.166.34.32)

Here is the crazy problem. When you ping www.boldwellies.com you get 64.202.167.129 even though when you browse to it you get 68.166.34.32.

Now what we can do is point one of my 20 domain names to your machine and see what we get. I have a domain www.blazintracks.com that we can use to test with.

How do you have your domains configured on the server side? Which one is the primary and what did you do on the server to point the domain name to http://68.166.34.32/home

[tymiles]

To be honest I would go with a 3rd party free DNS service like  zoneedit.com. With zone edit you have a more control of the DNS and how your DNS is configured.
 

When I checked some years ago zoneedit.com would charge after so many names. www.mydomain.com is free for dns and url forwarding and email forwarding, however they have filled their site with paid items like email and web hosting so you have to look for the free items above. Sometimes scrolling off to right of screen with slider bars to find the free stuff. I re-new domains through them so I don't feel bad about using only the free services.

Zone edit gives you the first five domains free. I have been using them for several years and have not had any problems or had to deal with any popups or anything like that.

[rickjones]

Zone edit gives you the first five domains free. I have been using them for several years and have not had any problems or had to deal with any popups or anything like that.

I concur. When ZE say "5 domain names" they mean 5 _domains_. I know some people have read that as meaning "5 DNS entries"!

You can create as many sub-domain, CName, MX, etc. records as you want in each domain. Only if you use more than 5 actual registered domains do you have to pay. Amazing value

BTW, I have a ZE update script for SME's dynamic DNS mechanism if anyone needs one, go to http://contribs.activeservice.co.uk (that's a sub-domain aliased by ZoneEdit   ).

[tymiles]

Zone edit gives you the first five domains free. I have been using them for several years and have not had any problems or had to deal with any popups or anything like that.

I concur. When ZE say "5 domain names" they mean 5 _domains_. I know some people have read that as meaning "5 DNS entries"!

You can create as many sub-domain, CName, MX, etc. records as you want in each domain. Only if you use more than 5 actual registered domains do you have to pay. Amazing value

BTW, I have a ZE update script for SME's dynamic DNS mechanism if anyone needs one, go to http://contribs.activeservice.co.uk (that's a sub-domain aliased by ZoneEdit   ).

Man Rick that is sooooo funny I just downloaded that script the other day from your site and it works perfect! Great work! Thanks a lot for taking the time to do it!

But you are right I LOVE Zone edit. They stick by what they say and do and I try to give them some money as often as I can (By paying for the MX backup and things like that.)

[rickjones]

Man Rick that is sooooo funny I just downloaded that script the other day from your site and it works perfect! Great work! Thanks a lot for taking the time to do it!

But you are right I LOVE Zone edit. They stick by what they say and do and I try to give them some money as often as I can (By paying for the MX backup and things like that.)

Glad you liked it!

I originally used DynDNS, with a free name in their domain space. It was useful when I started with SME because of the built-in support, but a bit limiting. Once I got used to the idea of telling my Web hosting provider to transfer DNS control elsewhere, and had learnt more of how SME worked, I gave ZE a go, and haven't looked back.

It's enabled me to do my own MX redundant backup, because the primary record delivers to SME, a secondary delivers to my Web host that runs my www. site. That accepts any mail to a catch-all address, and I collect it hourly with fetchmail multidrop. Helps when the ADSL connection drops out, which it does from time to time

I've got a few more SME tweaks that I'm planning to put up once I can get them sorted out sanely. I'll post something when I do.

[ldavies]

I don't think my problem can be resolved here so I have started another thread:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=22638.msg89813#msg89813