I recently transferred my domain (sniphq.com) from MyDomain to DreamHost. Today, for some reason, I can't get to sniphq.com at all. When I log into DreamHost, there doesn't appear to be any way to do anything like change the IP where my domain is pointed like I could do with MyDomain, which is super awesome.
I know it's not the server itself because I can go to the server's IP and my app works just fine.
Any advice on what I can do to troubleshoot?
Dreamhost's DNS servers are not serving your domain. Check in your domain control panel to make sure they know they're supposed to be providing it DNS.
Domain servers in listed order:
ns1.dreamhost.com
ns2.dreamhost.com
ns3.dreamhost.com
Server: ns1.dreamhost.com
Address: 66.33.206.206#53
** server can't find sniphq.com: SERVFAIL
Server: ns2.dreamhost.com
Address: 208.96.10.221#53
** server can't find sniphq.com: SERVFAIL
Server: ns3.dreamhost.com
Address: 66.33.216.216#53
** server can't find sniphq.com: SERVFAIL
Well, your ns records are pointing to Dreamhost, as they should be:
$ whois sniphq.com
<snip>
ns1.dreamhost.com
ns2.dreamhost.com
ns3.dreamhost.com
However, it doesn't look like any zones have been created at Dreamhost for your domain:
$ dig @ns1.dreamhost.com sniphq.com
; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P3 <<>> @ns1.dreamhost.com sniphq.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 4979
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;sniphq.com. IN A
;; Query time: 101 msec
;; SERVER: 66.33.206.206#53(66.33.206.206)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 18 15:01:58 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 28
You need to create a DNS zone for your domain. You'll need to refer to Dreamhost's documentation on how to do this.
