Question

DNS - ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

I’ve bought a domain gejr.dk since it’s a .dk the DNS records must be changed at dk-hostmaster.dk which I have done, this is the current config.

Current nameservers
    * ns1.digitalocean.com
    * ns2.digitalocean.com
    * ns3.digitalocean.com

No other configurations can be done at dk-hostmaster.

I configured my DNS records like this:

A	gejr.dk	directs to 68.183.208.10		3600
NS	gejr.dk	directs to ns1.digitalocean.com.	1800
NS	gejr.dk	directs to ns2.digitalocean.com.	1800
NS	gejr.dk	directs to ns3.digitalocean.com.	1800

I then followed this tutorial on how to setup Nginx https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-18-04

However when I reached the point where I should be able to go to http://gejr.dk I get the error

This site can’t be reached
www.gejr.dk’s server IP address could not be found.
ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

When I try to connect to the IP directly it works eg http://68.183.208.10/ shows test

After looking at multiple previous answers on similar questions, I changed my DNS records to this:

CNAME	*.gejr.dk		is an alias of gejr.dk.			43200
CNAME	www.gejr.dk	is an alias of gejr.dk.			43200
A		gejr.dk		directs to 68.183.208.10		3600
NS		gejr.dk		directs to ns1.digitalocean.com.	1800
NS		gejr.dk		directs to ns2.digitalocean.com.	1800
NS		gejr.dk		directs to ns3.digitalocean.com.	1800

But still it doesn’t work.

I have an index.html located in /var/www/gejr.dk/html/index.html this file should output something like Gejr.dk works! and I have an index.html located in /var/www/html/index.html this file outputs test It’s this file you see when you connect to the ip directly.

I have a file located in /etc/nginx/sites-available/gejr.dk which contains the following:

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

        root /var/www/gejr.dk/html;
        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name gejr.dk www.gejr.dk;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
}

This file is linked with sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/gejr.dk /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

My Nginx Config file looks like this

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

events {
	worker_connections 768;
	# multi_accept on;
}

http {

	##
	# Basic Settings
	##

	sendfile on;
	tcp_nopush on;
	tcp_nodelay on;
	keepalive_timeout 65;
	types_hash_max_size 2048;
	# server_tokens off;

	server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
	# server_name_in_redirect off;

	include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
	default_type application/octet-stream;

	##
	# SSL Settings
	##

	ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
	ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

	##
	# Logging Settings
	##

	access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
	error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

	##
	# Gzip Settings
	##

	gzip on;

	# gzip_vary on;
	# gzip_proxied any;
	# gzip_comp_level 6;
	# gzip_buffers 16 8k;
	# gzip_http_version 1.1;
	# gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

	##
	# Virtual Host Configs
	##

	include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
	include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}


#mail {
#	# See sample authentication script at:
#	# http://wiki.nginx.org/ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript
# 
#	# auth_http localhost/auth.php;
#	# pop3_capabilities "TOP" "USER";
#	# imap_capabilities "IMAP4rev1" "UIDPLUS";
# 
#	server {
#		listen     localhost:110;
#		protocol   pop3;
#		proxy      on;
#	}
# 
#	server {
#		listen     localhost:143;
#		protocol   imap;
#		proxy      on;
#	}
#}

In the Nginx error log this is everything 2019/01/03 14:16:33 [notice] 13789#13789: signal process started


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Andy Hattemer
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January 4, 2019
Accepted Answer

Looks like it’s working now, right?

ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED usually indicates a DNS caching issue, I bet it was either a slow update on dk-hostmaster.dk’s side, or cached DNS lookup info on your local network.

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