Frequently Asked Questions

Is there any way to see my site before changing the name servers or DNS propagation?
To see your domain on our system before a DNS change takes effect you may fake the target IP address for your domain locally. Here is a simple how-to: If you are using Windows, use "Start", "Find", "Files and Folders" to find a file in your windows directory (or WINNT\system32\drivers\etc) called "hosts". Verify that the file is not "read only" by right clicking it, and choosing it's Properties. Then open the file for editting with Notepad. There should already be an entry for "localhost". Follow that format when you insert your domain and our IP. On Windows98 and Windows95, the order may be 'hostname' then 'IP address'. On Windows2000 and WindowsME, the order is 'IP address' then 'hostname', Assume domain name is mydomain.com and IP address of the server hosting your domain is 204.50.14.3, add this line to hosts file (127.0.0.1 should be already there): 127.0.0.1 localhost 204.50.14.3 www.mydomain.com Then save this altered hosts file and close notepad. Make sure Windows did not silently save the file as "hosts.sam". The filename has to be "hosts". You may also need to reboot for the change to take effect. Next time you try to go to "www.mydomain.com", your browser will try to find that domain at the corresponding IP instead of looking up the IP through DNS. If you don't know the IP address of server hosting the domain you may find it using a PING command. Name of the server can be found in our welcome message. That is the same name as temporary addresse and could be something like serverxx.dayanadns.com or serverxx.dayanahost.com. Open a command prompt in Windows and type ping server25.dayanadns.com change the server25.dayanadns.com with your own server. Ping command will show you the IP address of server and you may use it in "hosts" file.

Is there any way to see my site before changing the name servers or DNS propagation?

To see your domain on our system before a DNS change takes effect you may fake the target IP address for your domain locally. Here is a simple how-to:

If you are using Windows, use "Start", "Find", "Files and Folders" to find a file in your windows directory (or WINNT\system32\drivers\etc) called "hosts". Verify that the file is not "read only" by right clicking it, and choosing it's Properties. Then open the file for editting with Notepad. There should already be an entry for "localhost". Follow that format when you insert your domain and our IP.

On Windows98 and Windows95, the order may be 'hostname' then 'IP address'. On Windows2000 and WindowsME, the order is 'IP address' then 'hostname', Assume domain name is mydomain.com and IP address of the server hosting your domain is 204.50.14.3, add this line to hosts file (127.0.0.1 should be already there):

127.0.0.1 localhost
204.50.14.3 www.mydomain.com

Then save this altered hosts file and close notepad. Make sure Windows did not silently save the file as "hosts.sam". The filename has to be "hosts". You may also need to reboot for the change to take effect. Next time you try to go to "www.mydomain.com", your browser will try to find that domain at the corresponding IP instead of looking up the IP through DNS.

If you don't know the IP address of server hosting the domain you may find it using a PING command. Name of the server can be found in our welcome message. That is the same name as temporary addresse and could be something like serverxx.dayanadns.com or serverxx.dayanahost.com. Open a command prompt in Windows and type