HI, I have changed the name servers on the name registrar to the digitalocean’s nameservers.
I have set up an A record in the control panel using @ directing to the droplet but this doesn’t work. It has been over 24 hours.
The website on droplet is up and running and works perfectly fine if I add the following line to my /etc/hosts file:
138.197.1.138 compasmen.com
But if I remove this line from my hosts file it stops working immediately. When trying to do nslookup compasmen.com I’m getting:
nslookup compasmen.com Server: 172.25.24.2 Address: 172.25.24.2#53
** server can’t find compasmen.com: NXDOMAIN
Could you please advise how to make it work?
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@jtittle I double and triple checked the name servers at my domain registars as well as domain settings in networking section on digitalocean. Everything looks right, and yet it doesn’t work.
It seems like your domain is inactive/deactivated. When I search the WhoIs register, your domain says it’s using the three DigitalOcean name servers.
But when I look up DNS details for your domain - dig compasmen.com NS - I’m not getting any information at all.
Which registrar are you using?
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