Help! Hostname unable to resolve to IP

[silvers]

Hi everyone at Cpanel Forum,

I hope your day is going good. I've been trying to fix a problem I had all week. I receive daily email notification that "example.mydomainname.com" does not resolve to any IP. However, when in WHM, it already contains Server Main Ip: 208.53.183.125. I've tried a few solutions from the web, but to no avail:

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IMPORTANT: Do not ignore this email.
The hostname (example.mydomainname.com) resolves to . It should resolve to 208.53.183.125. Please be sure to correct /etc/hosts as well as the 'A' entry in zone file for the domain.
Some are all of these problems can be caused by
/etc/resolv.conf being setup incorrectly. Please check this file if you
believe everything else is correct.

You may be able to automaticly correct this problem by using the
'Add an A entry for your hostname' under 'Dns Functions'
in your Web Host Manager
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1) Within WHM, I have the following:

-Add an A entry for your hostname (I only have one listed)
Hostname: example.mydomainname.com
Server Main Ip: 208.53.183.125

-Primary/secondary nameserver
Primary Nameserver: ns1.mydomainname.com (A entry = 208.53.181.26)
Secondary Nameserver: ns2.mydomainname.com (A entry = 208.53.181.27)

-Resolver Configuration
Primary Resolver: 66.90.68.25
Secondary Resolver: 66.90.68.26

-Additional IP my webhost gave me to use:
208.53.181.26 (used in primary name server)
208.53.181.27 (used in secondary name server)
208.53.181.28

-Current DNS Zone listing:
example.com (my website URL that is currently working)
example.mydomainname.com (hostname I made myself that contains the server main IP)
ns1.mydomainname.com (A entry = 208.53.181.26)
ns2.mydomainname.com (A entry = 208.53.181.27)


2) My edit "edit /etc/resolv.conf" contains the following:
Search localdomain
nameserver 66.90.68.25
nameserver 66.90.68.26


Issue: I receive daily email notification that "example.mydomainname.com" does not resolve to any IP. However, when in WHM, it already contains Server Main Ip: 208.53.183.125. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?


Thanks a million in advance,

-Silvers


PS: I am not able to register my two nameserver at GoDaddy.com since it does not recognize my host name "example.mydomainname.com".

 

[sin-card.com]

hi i have the same problem, but I am totally new to this kind of thing so have no idea where to start looking

let me know if you figure it out

Thanks

sin

 

[Infopro]

2) ...
My edit "edit /etc/resolv.conf" contains the following:
Search localdomain
nameserver 66.90.68.25
nameserver 66.90.68.26
...

Are you sure these are correct?

 

[thewebhosting]

You will have to place the register resolver domain name instead of localdomain and have a try.

 

[linux7802]

Solution

Have you checked file /etc/hosts ?

It need to be following entries only.

[[email protected]]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
208.53.183.125 example.mydomainname.com server
127.0.0.1 localhost

Only above lines need to be present in /etc/hosts file and remove all other entries from this file.