Add DNS record for cloudbuilder.co.za

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  odyssey4me · Member · Aug 20, 2013 at 8:52 am

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  I’ve tried to add a Zone Record for the domain cloudbuilder.co.za but it asked me to contact support. Could you please add the Zone Record for me?

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  amightywp · Member · Aug 20, 2013 at 4:11 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’ve verified that there is now a Zone Record set up for cloudbuilder.co.za. Keep in mind that this is a DNS change, and like any DNS change it is subject to a propagation period of between 1 and 72 hours before it is visible to all corners of the Internet. By the end of that period, you should be able to set your DNS however you’d like!

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  odyssey4me · Member · Aug 21, 2013 at 7:14 pm

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  It doesn’t appear to be working. Is there something in the DNS entries that I haven’t done correctly?

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  amightywp · Member · Aug 21, 2013 at 8:36 pm

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  No, the zone record has been created correctly. Like I said, it can take up to 72 hours for DNS propagation to occur, especially for country-code TLDs, so it may take a while before your registry sees that the zone file has been correctly created.

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  odyssey4me · Member · Aug 22, 2013 at 7:37 am

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  The zone record appears fine:

  ; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-P2 <<>> -t soa cloudbuilder.co.za
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58691
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3
  
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;cloudbuilder.co.za.		IN	SOA
  
  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  cloudbuilder.co.za.	86400	IN	SOA	ns1.wordpress.com. hostmaster.wordpress.com. 2005071858 14400 7200 604800 300
  
  ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
  cloudbuilder.co.za.	86366	IN	NS	ns1.wordpress.com.
  cloudbuilder.co.za.	86366	IN	NS	ns2.wordpress.com.
  cloudbuilder.co.za.	86366	IN	NS	ns3.wordpress.com.
  
  ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
  ns1.wordpress.com.	51331	IN	A	72.233.69.14
  ns2.wordpress.com.	137766	IN	A	69.174.248.148
  ns3.wordpress.com.	137766	IN	A	207.198.112.47
  
  ;; Query time: 11 msec
  ;; SERVER: 71.252.219.43#53(71.252.219.43)
  ;; WHEN: Thu Aug 22 02:32:40 2013
  ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 198

  But when I request a record for http://www.cloudbuilder.co.za or cloudbuilder.co.za it still refers to the old SOA and returns no record. Should I remove the SOA record from my existing DNS provider?

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  amightywp · Member · Aug 22, 2013 at 2:37 pm

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  The dig which I had done earlier was not returning the results which you provided. Instead it was returning the default nameservers for your domain registrar.

  Now, when I visit your site, it’s finally resolving your WordPress.com site zacloudbuilder.wordpress.com. Looks like things are working great now!

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  odyssey4me · Member · Aug 22, 2013 at 2:39 pm

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  I forced the issue by duplicating the A records on wordpress’ name servers. I have no idea whether all the records have properly propogated, but this is a good enough workaround for now.