Comments on: Configure Dreamhost to act as a DNS for your Posterous Custom Domain

By: ads1

ads1 — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:08:08 +0000

Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I needed. Much appreciated, if I could send a beer over the interweb I would have!

By: anjaliprasad

anjaliprasad — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:26:49 +0000

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By: Din Freebies

Din Freebies — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:24:56 +0000

I must thank you for the help provided. Best wishes

By: Prada shoes

Prada shoes — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:36:31 +0000

truthfully, Tahir, I have no idea. But I don’t think you have anything to lose by trying.Match blog.t….. to 67.x and leave CNAME out. If it works, then all done!But really, I don’t know. I struggled to do mine and when I look over the emails, they are incomprehensible.Let us know how it goes! Its midnight here. So I am packing up for the night but will look in about ten hours from now.Cheers and good luck!

By: Tahir Akram

Tahir Akram — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:16:30 +0000

I have deleted CNAME.I have deleted existing A record and created a new A record that is blog.tahirakram.com to 67.207.139.81.But when I press Save Settings, it gave me following error message.to Virtual host is not currently pointing to the right place. We found the following: . Please set your DNS servers to the correct address (A record to ’67.207.139.81′) and try again.So will it take time to propagate. Ok. I will wait. And press Save Settings after a day. If it get settled.

By: Tahir Akram

Tahir Akram — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:11:24 +0000

Hi Ben;You are very near. I DONT want tahirakram.com to goto posterous.I want blog.tahirakram.com to goto posterous.For tahirakram.com I am thinking to make a redirect to blog.tahirakram.com URL.Why I added A record for tahirakram.com is, because its suggested by posterous. And I dont know, what should I do for subdomain if I dont want my base URL to goto posterous.THIS IS THE POINT OF MY CONFUSION. And you question on it.Ben, tell me one thing. As Jo suggested. I think I should delete CNAME entry. And should map A record with my subdomain. That sounds appealing for me. What you think? I mean A record, blog.tahirakram.com to point 67.207.139.81.Thanks Jo and Ben, I am very thankful to you guys.See, if there is some advise for me.Tahir

By: Ben Zittlau

Ben Zittlau — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:52:16 +0000

Hi Tahir,If I understand what you are trying to do correctly, you want both blog.tahirakram.com and tahirakram.com to take users to your posterous blog. If this is the case you need to setup A records for both your base domain and the blog. subdomain to point to 67.207.139.81. In this case because both URL’s are on the tahirakram.com domain CNAME’s aren’t needed; CNAME’s are only required if you are trying to use two URL’s that are on *different* domains. On a side note, performing nslookups on both your URL’s currently yields:Non-authoritative answer:Name: tahirakram.comAddress: 216.108.235.178Which probably means that either they’re not setup for the posterous IP (67.207.139.81) yet, or that your changes might not have propogated yet.Let me know if anything here isn’t clear.Regards,Ben

By: Jo Jordan

Jo Jordan — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:56:30 +0000

Truthfully, Tahir, I have no idea. But I don’t think you have anything to lose by trying.Match blog.t….. to 67.x and leave CNAME out. If it works, then all done!But really, I don’t know. I struggled to do mine and when I look over the emails, they are incomprehensible.Let us know how it goes! Its midnight here. So I am packing up for the night but will look in about ten hours from now.Cheers and good luck!

By: Tahir Akram

Tahir Akram — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:49:21 +0000

Thanks Jo for quick reply;I have sent the said issue to posterous.I am confused over configuring both A record and CNAME for subdomain.See, as you guess: I am pointing (A, @ record) tahirakram.com to 67.xyz and blog.tahirakram.com to posterous.com.Question: Should I have to configure blog.tahirakram.com to 67.xyz? And should not configure CNAME?I dont know why Posterous didnot identifying that I have set up A record.I am not using dreamhost. And my hosting provider are not helping me out on it.I love to get some more advise. Jo, I am very thankful to you.

By: Jo Jordan

Jo Jordan — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:32:10 +0000

I cannot remember what I eventually did and sadly didn’t find time to write it out.My best guess (but it is not a good one) is that you matching the DNS no 67….. to tahirakram.com and then pointing Posterous to blog.tahirakram.com. I am guessing though. I don’t know what I am doing!”Art” was very helpful and at one point he sent me this message. “My email address is arta@dreamhost.com and I can bereached Sunday – Thursday 12pm till 8pm PST.”Or just send a ticket to Posterous. They are pretty good at responding.When you have solved your problem, do you think you could write a step by step tutorial and put it here? I should have done.Hope you solve it,Jo