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Domain propagation issues? Please Help!

Domain propagation issues - Lame nameservers...

         

new_BEE

7:24 pm on Mar 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I signup with a new hosting company 3 days ago. I change my name servers to them (its being 3 days now) but I still cant access my site. When I ping www.mydomain.com it resolves to their server. Then I ran a whois search that also show their name servers as DNS.

When I check my domain with DNSreport.com - I get the massage:

Lame nameservers - FAIL
ERROR: You have one or more lame nameservers. These are nameservers that do NOT answer authoritatively for your domain. This is bad; for example, these nameservers may never get updated. The following nameservers are lame: 66.98.XXX.XX

When I contacted my host they replied me saying that "there is nothing to worry about. It is simply a DNS propagation issue. This is something you need to wait for."

But according to DNSreport I have problem & my cant still access my site 3 days after DNS change.

what does it mean by "Lame nameservers"? why is that fail? how do I fix this? or should I wait more as my host requested?

Please advice me!
Thanks in advance

eurotrash

2:27 am on Mar 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Your hosting provider should sort this out. I had this a while ago (maybe 2 years) and it was sorted by trouble ticket to my hosting company within hours.

kwngian

5:40 pm on Mar 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member




Never transfer your DNS control to your hosting company because if you decide to switch for some reason, the host may not remove your zone information (eithier intentionally or not) and your traffic will go to the old host for afew days at least, sometimes even longer.

You should leave your DNS servers at your current registrar.

You problem could mean that the new hosting company has not create the zone information for your site or it could mean that DNSreport is connecting to the old servers. If 66.98.XXX.XX is your old DNS server, than there is nothing to worry about.

That is what I think is happening, but I may be wrong.