Help with DOmain Forward please

Dark_Angel · 28 May 2009 at 14:51

Hi there,

The domain forwarding with 1and1 is driving me nuts.

I created on a dedicated server a domain, with an ip address that I want to forward a domain we got from 1and1 too. But it won't play ball.

I have go it to forward - but then it will lose the url and just drop to ip address, so in other words if the address is www.cookie.com it will then turn to Http://75.4.4.5 kind of address

Under 1and1.co.uk I have edit destination - which basically seems to be forwarding the URL as a HTTP redirect. This is obviously not right.

I have tried going to dns settings on 1and1.co.uk I have:

Primary name server
1. Secondary name server

and so on.

in my dedicated web host I am using plesk, and have the following stuff:

Host Record type Value
IP of Website / 24 PTR URL of site.com.
ftp.URL.com. CNAME URL of site.com.
mail.URL.com. A IP OF SITE
mssql.URL.com. A IP OF SITE
URL.com. NS ns2.URL.com.
URL.com. NS ns1.URL.com.
URl.com A 74.52.13.212
URL.com. MX (10) mail.URL.com.
www.URL.com. CNAME URL.com.

Anyone got any ideas?

Dark_Angel · 28 May 2009 at 15:17

Ok -

I followed this video I just found:

http://www.hostgator.com/tutorials/dns/1and1/changing-name-servers-via-1and1.htm

And basically put in the IP ADDRESS that I setup for the server to the URL.

IN other words:

if 1.2.3 is the IP Address I assigned to the website in plesk, in the DNS settings I have set it up as:

HOST: RECORD TYPE: VALUE
MYURL.com A 1.2.3

That should be that HOST is myurl, record type is A, and the value is 1.2.3 (which is the dedicaed IP address I assigned the website under plesk) right? O.o

Dark_Angel · 28 May 2009 at 17:06

I did do it right - it seems. I checked it when I got home and all seems well.

1and1 are just a lot slower updating for servers outside of their network it seems, and for some reason (which was throwing my off) it was while configuring itself aiming at a completely random webpage in our packages. I THINk everything is great now though

Thanks a lot for the help though dude, go to love OCUK

Dark_Angel · 29 May 2009 at 10:32

Interesting.

It seems that the DNS servers still must be caching it.

I tried it at home last night and it worked fine, and at work today it loaded after I did a ipconfig /flushdns. However on someone elses machine still no go.

Interestingly though, on one computer http://url.com works, on another it still takes it to the old website O.o I am guessing it still is playing catch up?

Dark_Angel · 29 May 2009 at 10:55

Completely off topic, but I just found out you can't chmod with FTP on a windows system -.-

That is a tad annoying.

Dark_Angel · 29 May 2009 at 12:20

Skyfall said:
The DNS is has still likely not fully proliferated yet, patience is a virtue especially with 1and1.

Was there a particular reason you went with a windows system, I wouldn't usually go for windows unless I needed something in particular like asp.

Yeah, there was

Remote desktop, and we are using it as a dedicated server to run an application that requires windows (for web purposes) because it uses IIS and other MS things.