The issue is you can access trap17 and read the board, but as soon as you created your sub-domain name the computer don't connect to your new web site and you are stuck. You can access cPanel using the IP address but not your new site. Part of the problem is how domain names propagate across the Internet. All name servers talk to each other once a day or every 2 days, they query their neighbors and ask if there is any new web sites in their neighborhood or any new web sites that they have knowledge of. In this way the name servers are updated with the new DNS information and now they can send users to your web site.
The workaround is to add a DNS entry to your computer that points to one of trap17.com name servers. The steps for this is fairy simple and I’m going to use the long way to get there so everyone trying this can use the step by step instruction se.
W2K -->>Click "Start" -> "Settings" -> "Control Panel"
XP -->>Click -> “Start” -> “Control Panel” and select “Network Connections”. Right click on the “Local Area Connection”, Left click “Properties” and it will open up the “Local Area Connection Properties”.
In the “General” tab scroll down to “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” and select it (When selected the text is highlighted) and click the “Properties” button and it will open the “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties”
In “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties” the default setting in the “General” tab is for “Obtain an IP address automatically” and “Obtain DNS server address automatically” if they are checked leave them as is. (skip to the solution for dynamic DNS entries)
This is only for users with static IP and DNS all others go to the next step. If the “Use following DNS server addresses” is checked note and write both IP addresses and change out the second address with ns1.trap17.com “64.5.44.113” and restart your computer and try to access your web site again.
Dynamic IP and DNS entries solution:
Click the “Advanced” button, this will bring up “Advanced TCP/IP Settings” and select the second tab “DNS” and click “Add” button, this will bring up “TCP/IP DNS Server” here you type 64.5.44.113 for ns1 or 209.152.167.59 for ns2. And then click “Add” You can add both ns1 and ns2 but you only need one because this is a temporary solution until the domain name has propagated across the internet and all the name servers.
OK, we are done and you can close all the different windows that are open from this and restart your computer. (Restart is not necessary but recommended because all settings are finished at a restart and any open processes that didn’t quite finish will be cleaned out by the restart.)
Nils
thnx alot NilsC, I owe you one, BIGTIME!
