DNS with name.com and Amazon S3
- by aledalgrande
I have a website on a bucket in Amazon S3, and recently started to get emails from Google "Googlebot can't access your site". When I go to Webmaster Tools and I try to fetch in fact it doesn't work. Also people in locations different from mine sometimes reported they could not access the website.
Now for curiosity I tried from my terminal:
$ host xxx
xxx is an alias for xxx.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com.
xxx.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com.
s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com has address yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
And when I try with dig:
$ dig xxx
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> xxx
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17860
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;xxx. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
xxx. 300 IN CNAME xxx.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com.
xxx.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com. 60 IN CNAME s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com.
s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com. 60 IN A yyy
;; Query time: 1514 msec
;; SERVER: 75.75.75.75#53(75.75.75.75)
;; WHEN: Fri Aug 22 12:32:13 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 127
It seems OK to me. Why would Google tell me there is a DNS error?
UPDATE:
Google also cannot fetch robots.txt, but I can fetch it from my browser.
UPDATE 2:
I have a forwarding on the root to the www.* hostname:
$ dig thenifty.me
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> thenifty.me
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49286
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;thenifty.me. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
thenifty.me. 300 IN SOA ns1hwy.name.com. support.name.com. 1 10800 3600 604800 300
;; Query time: 148 msec
;; SERVER: 75.75.75.75#53(75.75.75.75)
;; WHEN: Fri Aug 22 13:32:56 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 88
