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No worries. I just don’t know why Dreamhost does it this way–the only decent thing about godaddy and bluehost is that domains are immediately parked at the same DNS.

Bluehost has been beyond horrible since EIG acquired them and, hmm, bob sold godaddy. Well, that’s refreshing. No more Danica all over the site. I like dreamhost in principle. But this is taking way too long.

Again, thanks!

GRRRRRRR. You are definitely faster. ??

Sigh. I’m getting this msg on the mirrored sites:

Site Temporarily Unavailable
We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact the webmaster/ tech support immediately to have them rectify this.

error id: “bad_httpd_conf”

DNS didn’t propagate, it seems, and it says I cannot refresh the for ~12 more hrs.

okay–patty is working as mirror, other two just set to mirror so will hopefully be working right quick!

THANK YOU!

(Sorry, but you are always 5000x more helpful than ticket support!)

Ahh, i see.

1) Yes, i did that because it was going to kirtinfo already (via full host), so i wouldn’t have been able to see if it had changed. i did think about if that was a prb though. ??

2) Yes, i deleted when didn’t work. in past, mapping doesn’t work if dns doesn’t match so was waiting for mirroring or match.

3) Excellent. Here goes.

This is my reply:

Thank you for contacting Dreamhost.

You may assign any custom DNS records to a domain once it has been added to your hosting plan by visiting Manage Domains:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=domain.manage& and clicking on DNS under the domain name.

Note that if you assign your own A record you will want to remove hosting from it by visiting Manage Domains:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=domain.manage& and clicking on Remove under Web Hosting to remove our A records.

If you have any other questions just let me know!

It’s been awhile, but I recall correctly, this doesn’t work. If you have a quick answer, lemme know before I waste time on it. Thanks!

Yeah, I did that. There’s a dropdown for the poss domains, so would be hard to mess that up. (my network is set up w/subdirectories rather than subdomains. I trust this doesn’t matter.)

Thanks for the refrest–was glad to see patty switched to the root dns, but when i turned off mirroring (as it didn’t work) and tried to full host that way, as i’ve had luck with that, it reverted to prev DNS. ??

Put in help tix. Now have a domain I *really* want to map (greenberg) so hoping this is resolved quickly. I’m stepping away for a few. Time always helps.

Thanks!

ALso, i’d put in a ticket, but i’m testing this at the moment. In the end I want patty to go to where it’s going now (pre mirror, the current mirror is a rest) but want to know I can map the other 2 domains as soon as i redirect them to dreamhost.

Ummm. Tried mirroring Patty, gave 20min to update, no luck.

the patty and patricia domains.

i didn’t open tix b/c in the past they told me WP MU wasn’t supported!!

Ok, thanks. Does mirroring req the DNS match? Will do that in future, as i have 2 more to move.

thanks again!

Re: Time Warner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3i3bKMzGaU&feature=youtu.be

??

Hmmm. Well, it fixed within hours, but perhaps because of the # of people on the ISP in this area they push settings more frequently.

The thought of time warner (monopoly) giving me a good answer to this? ohhhhh. I once spent 3.5 hours on hold with them (have screenshot proof) and another time spent 15min w/rep restarting my modem/router (“I’ve already done this several times,” I explained) over and over only to be told after, “Oh look, there’s a service outage in your area.” (Shouldn’t that be the #1 on the list?)

Anyway, it’s good to have an idea. I’ll restart modem/router if it ever happens again. Thanks!

Thanks! Glad you like the photos.

Well, three things. It wasn’t the browser, as I tried it in 4, including one I used every few weeks just for testing, which dumps all info on close. Two, I didn’t restart the modem or router when it resolved. Three, it looked like an error I got weeks ago when the IP of the mapped domain was different than the main directory domain.

I have had a ISP issue 2x, where my domain (different site, different host) went to a totally different site, most recently yahoo. That cleared with a reboot.

Also interesting, the day after this happened, I got this same error when visiting a Smithsonian magazine article (using a different browser). So, perhaps it is ISP, but both times the issue resolved without reboot.

Thanks!

It’s fully hosted with the directory as the directory of the root/main network site.

this has resolved itself, but if anyone has ideas to why it happened, would be great to know. thanks.