proftpd and dns...

Rain Designs · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 4:14 am Post subject: proftpd and dns...

I have the domain lodbot.com and I setup a subdomain ftp.lodbot.com which is just a url redirect to ftp://myip I am just using my registrar's DNS stuff because I don't have any DNS servers yet. if I goto ftp.lodbot.com, I get an error that says:

pipan · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 10:35 am Post subject:

Why dont you point ftp.lodbot.com directly to the IP of the ftpserver instead of using url forward? It would be a much better idea since url forward opens the url its forwarded to in a frame (at least i belive it does so :wink:

). If you use internet explorer i think you should be able to connect to the ftp if you use url forward, but a ftp client can get some trouble to connect to it. Im not completley sure what im talking about, but try to point ftp.lodbot.com to a IP instead.

Rain Designs · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 6:35 am Post subject:

I tried running the subdomain ftp.lodbot.com to my ip with an A-Adress as apposed to a url redirect. Still getting the same error :cry:

I am almost sure that its because my dns stuff isn't setup properly. I just wanted to make sure of that before I go out and pay for 2 dns machines.

Thanks,

Rain
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pipan · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 8:52 am Post subject:

When did you change to an A-Adress? You know that you can have to wait up til 48 hours before changes will take effect? Still think its strange that it dont work thoug, i point a subdomin to my IP and both web and ftp works fine.

de4d · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 10:05 am Post subject:

use 'dig' to find out more about the configuration/status of your domains.
sometimes u can just wait (as pipan said), but you can make sure that uve done everyting right and *have* to wait ...
hth
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