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domain name not resolving sometimes but ipaddress works fine

Posted on December 27, 2013

the server set up is ubuntu+nginx+passenger+rails+phpfgi I have a domain pointed to rails site and subdomain pointed to php site all with A record and nginx virtual host setting. The problem is the domain does not work sometimes while ipaddress is working.



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What’s listed in the <code>server_name</code> directive, of your Nginx config file?

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