Monday, 14 March 2011

Frelling DNS settings, How do they work?!?

This is not going to be an overly long post,

mostly because its going to be a bit of a rant, and too much ranting is bad for you.

By now your all wondering why www.zombieoutbreak.com does not work any more...

well that's because i tried to make the site work...

Before zombieoutbreak.com was hosted some place else, and all i did to make it look like it was really the blog was to create an iframe pointing at www.gothicpie.blogspot.com, this was just a temporarily measure, that way of making the site work had all sorts of problems,

firstly if the hosting site crashed the entire blog would go down, and I did not have much in the way of bandwidth with them,

Secondly no matter what page you went to on the blog, the address would always be www.zombieoutbreak.com making it impossible to link to a blog post directly.

So i decided to do the right thing and move the domain over to blogger,

Thats where all the trouble started.

Google as a whole (it amuses me no end that google chrome marks "google as being spelt wrong btw) has no sort of live support, you can't contact them directly, so i had to go into the help pages, I found the page exactly relevant to the question in hand, followed its directions exactly.... and completely broke the site.

According to google the DNS settings where not set up correctly, So i went back to the people I brought the domain with, they did have live support, so i got on it, got them to talk me through every step of the way, made every part of the sites DNS settings look exactly like google wanted them to...
And the site still does not work...

The domain host says its googles fault, google says its the DNS settings fault, and the DNS settings say we are all correct.

At this point I'm not sure what else to do, if anyone reading this is a wizard with DNS settings please contact me, i could sure use the help, at the moment i have sent off a support email to google trying to get some answers, I'll let you know know what they say.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I made it work!

Please disregard ranting.