Hi,

Considering the number of people who are asking about DNS information, I am posting this thread to try to allay any confusion on this matter.

Let's start with a few things to note:

Simply go to your registrar (the company you registered the domain name with) and login with the username and password they gave you when you registered the domain name and then make the DNS changes as specified below.

NS1.LUNARPAGES.COM
NS2.LUNARPAGES.COM
(Please note that some sites have dynamicname instead of lunarpages listed for the nameservers; dynamicname and lunarpages are interchangeable nameserver names)

Additionally, the IP addresses (which might differ than those listed on our FAQ page) will be included in your critical account information e-mail that you receive when you open an account.  These are the correct IP addresses and are very important to note when looking at the Whois data that I will explain below.

Please note after changing the nameservers to reflect your new host it takes up to 72 hours for servers world wide to learn of your domain's new location.  Your domain name will not work nor will your e-mail until propagation has taken place.

Now, for the Whois info:

Do a Whois search at a company like Centralops at http://centralops.net/co/  For the selection, choose "Domain Dossier" on the left, then check only the DNS records option.  Now, click go.  Using my website (bestgarden.net), I received the following results (please note that the only way I could get the DNS records to line up using BBCode was to input them as code even though in Whois they are not code):

Address lookup
canonical name bestgarden.net.
aliases
addresses 64.235.234.68
 

DNS records


Also, please note that I removed the time to live field from Whois in my listing above.

Okay, to explain the important areas to note.  First of all, look at addresses under Address lookup.  It shows 64.235.234.68.  Next, look at the Nameservers (NS) in DNS records.  They are shown as:

ns1.lunarpages.com
ns2.lunarpages.com

Now, this shows that my nameservers are set correctly.

So, how do I know the IP is right?  Well, look at the PTR entry under type.  It shows leo.lunarpages.com (my server) and 68.234.235.64 as the IP.  This is the reverse of the IP address shown above (64.235.234.68), which is how it appears in the pointer.  This means that yes, my site is live and propagated.

If you ever have a question as to whether your site is propagated, has the correct nameservers, whatever, look at these DNS records and the Address lookup, and follow the steps of comparison I just detailed to confirm they are Lunarpages nameservers and your server on Lunarpages.  If they are, you are good to go.  If they are not and it has been over 3 days, contact us and we can look into it.

I hope this helps and doesn't lead to more confusion.

Thanks.

GO RUTGERS!

By popular demand, this is now a sticky post. Great work, Miraenda.

I graduated from Rutgers. Class of 95.

If the address lookup failed and the name servers are correct I assume it means it hasn't propagated yet right? I wonder why when I type my address it sends me to a search engine though.  

www.caughtindarkness.net

Oh ok, I was trying to pay no attention to it (it's only been registered yesterday) but with the recent freak occurence that took away my domain from me after 3 months of using it I'm paranoid about everything that has to do with domain registration. I was starting to think my domain was highjacked by someone because I've seen this search engine before. I just didn't know it was a browser setting.

Thanks for the reply, it answered another question at the same time.

Hi there,

I want to add a domain to my account and

I was wondering which address I should use for
neptune.lunarpages.com

cause I was just been told my domain has been transfered to it, and I could not find the email when I created my account a year ago.

Thanks a lot.

One of my domain, chinarain.net was registered with freeparking.co.uk

When I changed the DNS settings from the control panel, it seems it can not done. I was wondering if you got some suggestions on that.

Cause when I told them, they just replying that I need to speak my host company.

I was so confused, cause I hosted a few domains there.


And do you have any good places I can move my domain to (registrar)?

Cheers
Cheers