I registered domain with AWS and set Hosted Zone.
inside the hostedzone i have NS with 4 records and SOA as a record type
I added A record type and point it to EC2 public IP.
in browser i can not get response when type domain name.i got "This site can’t be reached"
search here and some people advice to check NS with dig command.
dig command answered when i run in on Ec2 Ubuntu command but didn't get response when run it on my laptop.
I have other sites on roure53 but new one doesn't work.
any thought?
How did you registered the domain? Did you purchase it from a website and paid for it?
From what you said, it seems the FIRST thing you did was creating a Hosted Zone in Route53. Let me explain.
Usually when we purchase a domain from another website, after paying for it and everything we will need to tell the Domain Registrar to use the Name Servers and input a value like ns1.abcdomain.com and ns2.abcdomain.com . The purchase of a domain name usually comes with a free DNS service, so it will already have a valid name servers defined.
If my guess is correct, you created a hosted zone in AWS Route 53 without actually paying and registering a domain with a registrar (AWS is also a registrar). Therefore the domain only exist in AWS world because you created a Hosted Zone.
This explains why running dig on your EC2 provided the expected IP, because somewhere along the line the EC2 reaches AWS internal Route53 DNS service before reaching the public internet for DNS result.
If you indeed paid AWS something like $12 to purchase a domain, you might have misunderstood their interface (which can be confusing sometimes) and missed appointing Route 53 to be the domain's Name Servers.
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We purchased a domain from GoDaddy, for example, say mycompany.com.
My colleague then moved it to Wix.com to publish our marketing site, which will be available at the mycompany.com url. I need to add a subdomain in AWS, pointing to a Cloudfront CDN endpoint.
To shed more light into the current situation, here is a little more info:
When I check GoDaddy, it shows Nameservers, referencing the Wix servers. For DNS, it says We can't display your DNS information because your Nameservers aren't managed by us.
When I check Wix.com, I see that Managed by Third Party, Connected by DNS and still provides the option to transfer to Wix.
Both Godaddy and Wix provide the option to add a subdomain.
I'd rather do that in AWS.
What is my best option here? Should I transfer the domain to AWS and manage it there? If so, how do I then route traffic from mycompany.com to the marketing site?
Is there a way to keep it as is, but still add a subdomain on the AWS side for example.mycompany.com?
I really regret not registering this domain via AWS in the first place, but lesson learned. Any help would be much appreciated.
I am assuming that your DNS is being hosted via wix.com.
If you want to migrate to Route 53 its not actually too hard. Start by setting up a public hosted zone within Route 53 with the domain name you setup.
Next you would want to perform a zone lookup for all your DNS records, you can use Googles DIG Tool with the ANY option or do this via cli by running dig example.com ANY.
Now that you have all the records you will need to create them within your public hosted zone, follow this tutorial if you need any assistance. Do not add the SOA or NS records.
Now that all records have been migrated get the values from the NS record in your public hosted zone and replace the nameservers within GoDaddy to point at these values.
Your DNS will migrate over whichever period the TTL of your previous NS record is set as. Once this has migrated and it working you can add your CNAME record as you originally wanted to add.
I'm new AWS and I have to continue maintaining previous developer service that is hosted on AWS. The ec2 instance that is hosted has map to domain name of https://****c.k**g.g***an.org.au, however I couldn't find this domain name anywhere. I tried looking at route53, but there's no such domain name registered.
Please help, how do I find the domain name that is mapped to the EC2 instance? Where can I get that information. The reason because I want to deploy a new instance but with the same domain name.
Edit: Masking DNS for privacy reasons.
Are you sure your DNS is hosted by Route53? Running dig against k***.g****.org.au has the SOA held by ns1.mooball.net.
The whois for mooball.net returns register.com as the owner, so I would consider reaching out to your internal teams to see who holds that account, then check your DNS delegation settings by logging in to register.com.
Often times the client will control their own DNS, so it would also be worth confirming with your client where their root DNS (garvan.org.au) is hosted - you can then trace the subdomain delegation to see where it is ultimately hosted.
check route53 service in AWS , since the domain is served by https..it could be the domain mapped to a load balancer and the load balancer has the instance...anyway you can know from the route53 there you find all the records
I have a simple question for pointing my Bigrock Domain name to Amazone EC2.
I have Created HostedZone from Hostedzone-create link
I got 4 name servers.
Now what?
Suppose my domain name is example.com on Bigrock.com.
Can anyone explain me how can i point that domain name to EC2?
I asked to Bigrock support but they told me something like this:
The website is not working because the DNS zone for your domain is not
configured properly on your Hosting providers DNS servers ( AWS Server
). Please get in touch with your provider for further assistance.
But I am not getting what they want to say. Please help!!
To move your Name Servers to AWS Route 53 first you have to change the Name Servers in Bigrock follow this steps.
http://support.hostgator.com/articles/hosting-guide/lets-get-started/dns-name-servers/how-to-change-name-servers-with-bigrock
Once that is done go to AWS Route 53 and create two record sets one for the "naked domain" and another for "www" domain and add a A-Record to point to the EC2 IP address (Be Sure the IP address is Elastic just in case for future change in IP address of the server so that you are covered).
This is Route 53 Guide
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/resource-record-sets-creating.html
Now, you will go to your bigrock.com and find your domain. Change the default name servers information with that 4 name servers information provided by Route53 on amazon. save your changes and wait for few hours to be activated properly.
It's been couple of days that I transferred my domain name from one AWS to another--dev environment to production. The problem is, the domain name isn't showing up in any DNS (Amazon or Google). I'm pretty sure I've configured the hosted zone correctly.
I'm also trying to verify SES which is failing and I also set MX records (Gmail) which don't work. The MX records and SES were set couple of days ago. Additionally, I created an A record to point to a elastic load balancer DNS name.
Any suggestions on what might be the problem? It's been couple of days and from past StackOverflow posts as well as past experience, DNS propagation on Amazon's server doesn't take more than 15 minutes.
EDIT:
Here is a timeline of events which can provide more information:
I had a domain abc.com on AWS account user1
The domain was transfered to AWS account user2
As of right now, the following hosted zone is created on user2's account:
The one thing this record set is missing is a CNAME to the load balancer which I had setup when the domain belonged to user1. However my understanding is that an A record should be good enough and it was a mistake on my part.
I'm using Windows and so I've flushed my DNS. I've tried looking up using AWS's DNS servers and Google's DNS server and nothing.
C:\>nslookup abc.com 8.8.8.8
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
*** google-public-dns-a.google.com can't find abc.com: Server failed
It's been a couple of days since the domain was transferred. MX records were something I setup immediately and so I haven't gotten an email. If the DNS doesn't have any clue about the domain name, something must be wrong.
NOTE: The domain name is obfuscated to abc.com.
As suggested by #michael-sqlbot, the name servers were different in the console and hosted zone. I updated the name servers to the NS of the hosted zone. I see DNS propagation.
Since Godaddy went down for some hours my client and I are very upset and want to change everything to AWS.
Everything is done so far, only the domains (blablabla.com) are missing, I'm having a hard time trying to migrate from godaddy to Route 53, Do I have to remove from one and create from scratch from AWS?
Does anyone have any experience on how to do this?
the solution:
Login on your aws console;
Click on Route 53;
Create Hosted Zone;
Select your new created host title and click "Go to Record Sets", take note of the nameservers;
Login on your Godaddy account;
Select your domain;
Go to Nameservers and click SetNameservers;
paste all the four you took from "Go to Record Sets" Route 53;
and that's it..., you don't have to rely on this horrible service Godaddy provides anymore
You can transfer the domain registration to AWS Route 53.
You have to "unlock" the account.
Log On to Go Daddy.
Go to Domain Details Then Settings:
Lock: Set to Off
Authorization Code: Email My Code
Route 53 will need the authorization code to complete the transfer request.
Here are the steps to migrate your internet domain name to AWS route 53 (DNS Manager).
** Be careful where your mail server is hosted, either in the Godaddy mail service, Gmail (gsuite) or in your Cpanel server (VPS/Server).
** To empower your Domain DNS capabilities, you need to transfer the name servers, DNS records and domain name to AWS route53, thats why it's recommended to move to AWS Route 53. You can keep Godaddy to be owner of your yourdomain.com and manage your DNS by Route 53
STEPS:
Go to Godaddy DNS records and understand each of them and note them (Take a screenshot)
Go to AWS route 53, Crete a Public hosted Zone (Create your domain on AWS route 53). Here is a good tutorial about it:
https://www.clickittech.com/aws/migrate-godaddy-to-aws-route53/
Copy your Godaddy DNs records into your Public hosted zone previously created. Remember, each record needs to exist in the new aws zone.
Change your Name Servers to AWS Route 53. What does it means? In order to allow AWS route 53 to manage your domain, DNs records, etc. you need to change your actual Godadaddy Name server (NS) Records to AWS Records.
Go to Godaddy admin Panel and Login
Go to DNS Management
Under Name Servers Click on Change - > Custom - > Change Name Servers
You need to change from NSx.domaincontrol.com to the AWS Name servers.
More info: https://www.clickittech.com/aws/migrate-godaddy-to-aws-route53/
After 4-8 hours your Name Servers will be reflected and propagated around your country, world and networks.
Practically you are done with this.
Additionally, if you need to migrate your website or web app to AWS go to this tutorial, great explanation, see below:
https://www.clickittech.com/aws-migration/transfer-domain-aws-migrate-move-website-aws/
The answer from The Poet above is good for moving everything, but it will also kill your email service with GoDaddy. If you want to keep the email servers running at GoDaddy, you will also need to get your MX email servers and their priority numbers. Mine looked like this...
0 smtp.secureserver.net
10 mailstore1.secureserver.net
Take these over to your Route53 settings, click Create Record Set, choose a type of MX Mail Exchange, and paste these values in (with the number in the front as shown above). Save the record set.
Also PJT was correct; all domain info in Route53 ends with an extra period for some reason specific to AWS, but don't worry about it--it doesn't affect production behavior. When you copy your four from Route53 to paste in GoDaddy's Name Servers, you will need to do them one at a time and trim off the extra period at the end.
If you want to migrate your DNS records to Route 53, you'll need to export them from GoDaddy and recreate them manually in Route 53.
To do this in one automated step, consider a DNS migration tool such as DNSTools.ninja, as outlined here: https://dnstools.ninja/migrate-bind-aws-route53-safely-3-commands/
Be careful with google mx records if you have them.
Why switch to route 53?
AWS Route 53 doesn’t limit you to 64 subdomain.
AWS allows you to host buckets with route 53
It all comes at a 50 cent/month.
AWS Nameservers
Now to answer your question, you need move the name servers to route 53. That means in godaddy name server section should be filled with aws name servers.
See the steps here.
https://metamug.com/article/dns-migrate-godaddy-to-route-53.php
The detailed steps to transfer the domain registrar from GoDaddy to Route 53 is given at https://cloudopian.com/blog/how-to-transfer-domain-registrar-from-godaddy-to-amazon-route-53/
Remember, you first need to transfer your name servers by creating a hosted zone in Route 53 and pointing your godaddy hosted domain to use Route 53's name servers instead of it's own name servers.