Dreamhost.com DNS zone troubles
The dreamhost.com DNS zone is currently having troubles, so most hostnames within this zone are not resolving. This shouldn’t have any effect on customer sites’ DNS, only central DreamHost services that use the dreamhost.com domain (wiki, panel, etc).
We’re looking into the cause and getting things fixed up.
Update Thu Feb 22 03:18:44 PST 2007: The authoritative DNS servers are returning records correctly again, and things are returning to normal as cached answers expire.
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February 22nd, 2007 at 1:16 am
Ah, this is probably why Unix mail through pine using spork.dreamhost.com is suddenly not working, eh? Looks like there’s a little progress (spork appears now, and it didn’t a few minutes ago). Glad to see you’re on it. Hang in there!
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:18 am
Yea, while some of my firends can access http://www.dreamhost.com, I am unable to. FTP access is not working either.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:20 am
Yea, I can’t use FTP either!! Argh! LOL
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:21 am
I know you don’t need help on this one, but lately I have noticed that ns3.dreamhost.com sometimes did not respond.
Best luck guys!
http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=dreamhost.com
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:21 am
Okay, so I’m not the only one having FTP problems, after all.
I just bought my account so I figured I had killed something somehow x3;
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:22 am
Thanks for the info, was wondering why webftp and panel weren’t working.
Glad to see you’re alreading looking into that.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:23 am
I just love ya!
I had problems with http://FTP... so, I checked the status… I saw, there were troubles… What I find “normal”, may well happen…
What I love is:
1. It is displayed in the blog immediatelly, when there is a trouble… so, I trust you, I find this honest, qucik and useful.
2. It has been repared very quickly! Professional!
THANKS,
Tamas
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:26 am
Something is also up with customer sites, as I am not able to access any of my hosted sites.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:29 am
“Something is also up with customer sites, as I am not able to access any of my hosted sites.”
Same here.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:32 am
DreamHost website is back. But I cannot access m ysite via ftp right now, and cannot access the panel @ dreamhost. Hmm…
What I really like is that you post notices here as soon as something is not OK with the system…
Hope that this issue will be resolved soon!
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:32 am
What sucks about this is that I used to host my web site (which is primary used by my family members across the US) at my house, but decided to move it finally to dreamhost, tell all my family members that it will be more reliable that my flakey internet connection. I hope no one is out there trying to view it right now.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:38 am
anyone happen to know the ip address for lisa.dreamhost.com ?
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 am
I too can’t access any of my domains hosted with dreamhost right now. This is not a complaint, so much as confirmation that the problem DOES seam to affect hosted sites too, not just the dreamhost.com domain! I hope it’s resolved quickly.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 am
Yeah I can’t access http://panel.dreamhost.com
Can I access it by it’s IP If so what is it? Thanks!
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 am
It IS affecting customer sites DNS….
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 am
obviously it has effects on email reception as all mails bounce…(!!):
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail1.key-systems.net.
I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.
:
Sorry, I couldn’t find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4)
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:46 am
[quote]What sucks about this is that I used to host my web site (which is primary used by my family members across the US) at my house, but decided to move it finally to dreamhost, tell all my family members that it will be more reliable that my flakey internet connection. I hope no one is out there trying to view it right now.[/quote]
THIS has nothing to do with your websites. THEY will WORK. YOUR mail will be there if you use mail.yourdomain.com to connect. If you use *.dreamhost.com, then it wont work. Regardless, you can always access your email from http://webmail.yourdomain.com.
If you cant access your sites, then something else is wrong!
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:51 am
Accessing our ecommerce site is almost impossible right now. Accessing by IP address works in all browsers, but contacting by domain name causes no content to be loaded, only blank pages with browser reporting the content had loaded. Only Safari responds with an error…
We’re on Ovaltine at Dreamhost. And we’re also not in the US but China.
Frustrating.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:51 am
Update: My hosted domains are now accessible again. I’m also able to ssh to skittle.dreamhost.com as well.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:52 am
dreamhost.com/signup still doesn’t work
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:54 am
I still am unable to WebFTP or normal FTP at al; :/
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:57 am
discussion.dreamhost.com is down, but http://discussion.dreamhosters.com/ is up (for now).
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:01 am
STATUS:> [2/22/2007 1:00:42 AM] Getting listing “mydomain.com”…
STATUS:> [2/22/2007 1:00:42 AM] Resolving host name mydomain.com…
STATUS:> [2/22/2007 1:00:42 AM] Host name mydomain.com resolved: ip = my.i.p.address.
STATUS:> [2/22/2007 1:00:42 AM] Connecting to FTP server… mydomain.com:21 (ip = my.i.p.address)…
ERROR:> [2/22/2007 1:00:43 AM] The remote host actively refused the attempt to connect to it.
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:02 am
My FTP isn’t working.
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:17 am
Mail seems to also be down…
This is the Postfix program at host enforcer.dreamhost.com.
I’m sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be
be delivered to one or more recipients. It’s attached below.
For further assistance, please send mail to
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The Postfix program
: [mx1.balanced.looney.mail.dreamhost.com]: Name or
service not known
Final-Recipient: rfc822; XXXXXXXXXXXXX@bomberstudios.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; [mx1.balanced.looney.mail.dreamhost.com]: Name or
service not known
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:28 am
I am also unable to use FTP or WebFTP either :O(
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:32 am
Yeah, I’m getting mail bounces from a couple friends who are also hosted on Dreamhost with the same error message as Ale Muñoz.
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:35 am
Panel.dreamhost.com and FTP are working for me. Thanks, Dreamhost!
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:40 am
Looks like everything is back to normal now. I can now access the panel and mails are not being bounced any more.
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:52 am
Discussion Board and Blog still doesn’t seen to work.
op CP en main site works again.
thanx for the fast fixing
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:52 am
panel is not working at 1:50 PST.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:01 am
Alondra is still down. Can’t access my site via http, or ftp - via ftp I get this:
Connecting to alondra.dreamhost.com
Unable to resolve host: alondra.dreamhost.com
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:08 am
laurel and fairfax still down for (web) FTP access as well..
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:14 am
Aarrgh! Does anyone know the IP of tang.dreamhost.com?
Maybe the staff should post a list of all the IPs.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:16 am
spork.dreamhost.com still can’t be found from xenotime, so pine mail access doesn’t work (although I can work out how to change the path to the inbox, using mail.mydomain.com it refuses to access the folders, complaining that spork doesn’t exist.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:17 am
Just FYI, I’ve been told mails sent to both domains I host on Dreamhost are bouncing with an error about MX records. (My wife called this one in from work and didn’t have exact details.)
I’m sure you’re pulling out all the stops but I’m a bit worried to read all the assurances that it won’t affect domains outside dreamhost.com - something’s obviously going wrong there!
Great to have the status blog though - a good way to keep in touch with your customers at times like this.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:23 am
Well, spork is accessible again from xenotime.
Whether the mail bounces or not depends on the way the sending mail server is set up - most should just queue the mail - in theory, even if the server was down for a day, then you should still get most (if not all) of your mail.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:28 am
Here is my status form the UK:
http://panel.dreamhost.com - Still down
https://webftp.dreamhost.com/ - Working
http://discussion.dreamhost.com/ - working (image not resolving)
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:31 am
Cant access FTP and cant access Panel, i have no control over my sites ! they are out of control ! May God Help you all ! grrrr
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:40 am
Where can I find the IP for warhead.dreamhost.com? I should have written it down before…
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:40 am
I ‘ve found it near for four hours, what’s wrong with the domain? maybe the staff should add an other domain for backup, that we can use it by now.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:45 am
whilst waiting for the dns to propagate, I’ve used nslookup from dos and if you type server ns1.dreamhost.com you can then query to find out the ip for the various subdomains,etc… hope that helps someone out there.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:49 am
FTP problems remains the same…. even if i know the ip.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:49 am
Not impressed, still can’t access ftp from the rootbeer.dreamhost.com server, only had this service 2 days, not looking good.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:55 am
I don’t know if this is site wide or just me, but I still can’t access FTP or WebFTP to update my website.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:57 am
I’m getting ‘host does not exist’ when trying to login to marge.dreamhost.com - I’m trying to work on a site, I have deadlines, I’m now grumpy. Pah.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:58 am
I bought a domain + webspace 2 days ago. I can access the control panel but not Wordpress (although it says it has been installed - I need to create the first user). Is that why I cannot do anything?
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:06 am
laurel.dreamhost.com & fairfax.dreamhost.com FTP working again, great!
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:15 am
No FTP here.
t’s probably a good idea to write this in the announcement, since this seems to be a problem for a lot of guys…if not all!
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:17 am
Ok, bart’s FTP is working now…thanks
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:18 am
oxnard.dreamhost.com won’t resolve, so I cannot http://FTP. Allow me to join the chorus of “does anybody know the IP?” of oxnard.dreamhost.com
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:20 am
208.97.145.153 is oxnard, if that helps anybody.
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:23 am
Hope this helps:
oxnard.dreamhost.com 208.97.130.9
fairfax.dreamhost.com 64.111.108.25
marge.dreamhost.com 205.196.212.4
rootbeer.dreamhost.com 208.113.160.27
warhead.dreamhost.com 208.113.146.28
spork.dreamhost.com 66.33.219.4
tang.dreamhost.com 208.97.183.23
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:31 am
There is a complete list of all 495 Dreamhost webservers at http://www.askapache.com/2007/webmaster/dreamhost-server-ip-address-list.html
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:31 am
I cannot access my site by ftp I’m on Larchmont server and I have noticed that over the last couple of weeks there has been several times that I can’t access my site by the http://WWW. I have a membership site and I’m out of business if folks can’t access the site.
I wish you could get all issues with Larchmont resolved quickly.
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:53 am
“things are returning to normal as cached answers expire.” This was at 3 something this morning, any luck on getting the panel to work?
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:30 am
LIAR LIAR ! its still not working DNS fixups take more then 24 - 48 hours, my websites are still out of control ! be aware !
February 22nd, 2007 at 6:00 am
This the worst thing, happened….
panel.dreamhost.com not working, while,
http://ftp.dreamhost.com is working…..
i wanted to use PHPmyAdmin, but cannt do, right now, bcz, of the no access to Panel.
Kindly, fix this issue
February 22nd, 2007 at 6:12 am
Muhammad Abbas Khan try http://www.yourdomain.com/dh_phpmyadmin/yourdbname.yourdomain.com/
I currently cannot contact rootbeer.dreamhost.com via my FTP client or the WebFTP using the the IP address or the domain name
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:34 am
LOL @ all the freaking out.
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:32 am
All my sites are down
Can’t get into Panel
I hope the Dreamhost people read this comment section
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:39 am
my sites are working but for one of my site the database is gone. my harddrive crashed the other day and i never backed it up hope they can restore it.
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:44 am
Chuck: Have you ever wondered why it says “(Please remember, posting in the comments here IS NOT an official way to contact DreamHost.)” in big letters at the top of dreamhoststatus.com
The panel is down, so you could call them, but I have a sneaky suspicion that they know about the issue.
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:08 am
just tried to restore the database but its not working. anyone else having a problem with there database being gone? One of my sites is working fine database is there.
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:46 am
You can get the panel.dreamhost.com
http://ftp.dreamhost.com
wiki.dreamhost.com
rootbeer.dreamhost.com
etc.. by modifying your /etc/hosts or C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
You can find a [ hostname IP address ] list and instructions for modifying your hosts file at http://www.askapache.com/2007/webmaster/dreamhost-server-ip-address-list.html
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:34 pm
i can’t access any of my domain host by dreamhost right now.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:19 pm
nooooooooooooo
mi sites are down
argggggggggh
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:38 pm
i need my sites back, i need to download files for my presentation in 5 hours !
pls, pls !
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:59 pm
{taps screen}
Is there no-one at DreamHost today? Or at least no-one who can mend things they’ve broken?
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:12 pm
All your DNS are belong to us. ;^)
February 22nd, 2007 at 6:40 pm
MYSQL AUTHENTICATION is still down for donny.skimbleshanks.dreamhost.com
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:55 pm
I can’t access one of my host (www.scumotor.com.tw) about 8 hours ago,
now It’s back to normal but my another host (www.wii.club.tw) is having the same trouble now.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I have been having serious FTP problems for the last few hours. The upload times out, but won’t cancel and it’s locking up my machine tighter than a drum. I’m pissed! This sucks!
February 24th, 2007 at 4:58 am
Hi friends,
BIG PROBLEM with all our domains hosting at dreamhost. No domain is available !!! No ftp and http connection. Sorry but please fix it quickly - its not funny to see that nobody can see our different domains like personaltrainer-news.de, presse-in-deutschand.de and all others.
February 25th, 2007 at 1:17 am
I’m sorry to say that we have also had mail to our domain bouncing. Bad news! It’d be nice if the fact that user email did bounce could be acknowledged, if not prevented
—— Forwarded Message
—– The following addresses had permanent fatal errors —–
—– Transcript of session follows —–
550 5.1.2 … Host unknown (Name server:
fltr-in1.mail.dreamhost.com.: host not found)
Reporting-MTA: dns; planet.ak.planet.gen.nz
Arrival-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:19:24 +1300
Final-Recipient: RFC822; @sumamedia.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.2
Remote-MTA: DNS; fltr-in1.mail.dreamhost.com
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:19:31 +1300
—— End of Forwarded Message
February 25th, 2007 at 4:49 am
We can’t access any of our sites on dreamhost, too. Yesterday we’ve transferred two sites to dreamhost and this problems started after that. So it’s very bad for us. Please do something to make our domains work.
Thanks
February 25th, 2007 at 5:48 am
FTP and Domain are down. Please fix ASAP.
February 25th, 2007 at 5:49 am
my site doesn’t work, no mail, no web, nothing!!
February 25th, 2007 at 6:06 am
All of my sites are down, every single one. THis is critical!!!!!
February 25th, 2007 at 6:11 am
Even this blog is not working properly. I am battling to report that none of my sites work either. This looks like a complete system failure. I sure hope the folks at DreamHost are burning the midnight oil to get this working so we don’t lose lots of time and business.
February 26th, 2007 at 2:34 am
ahh, I need to check this site more often… I was wondering why I was having those troubles… good to see it’s all sorted now tho
February 28th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Just wanted to inform you that although I can reach my panel, ALL of my hosted sites are down. I’ve been really happy with Dreamhost, and my sites are rarely down… so I just hope they’re up pretty soon cause I’ve got some important goings on online.
Thanks
-Dave
http://www.strandland.com
May 24th, 2007 at 12:45 am
Is’t the same happening today ? Is there no way to get the DNS working all the time ?
May 24th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Good that it does not cost too much… 80$ per year, and quite good service. I can live with that…
May 25th, 2007 at 11:37 am
I can live with it. 80$ is not much, concerning what i earn with my page, even with downtime
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Is’t the same happening today ? Is there no way to get the DNS working all the time ?
July 7th, 2007 at 11:26 am
No ftp and http connection. Sorry but please fix it quickly - its not funny to see that nobody can see our different domains like personaltrainer-news.de, presse-in-deutschand.de and all others.
July 7th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
ahh, I need to check this site more often… I was wondering why I was having those troubles… good to see it’s all sorted now tho
July 7th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Accessing our ecommerce site is almost impossible right now. Accessing by IP address works in all browsers, but contacting by domain name causes no content to be loaded, only blank pages with browser reporting the content had loaded. Only Safari responds with an error.
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July 7th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
I know you don’t need help on this one, but lately I have noticed that ns3.dreamhost.com sometimes did not respond.
Best luck guys.! Sohpet
July 10th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Just wanted to inform you that although I can reach my panel, ALL of my hosted sites are down. I’ve been really happy with Dreamhost, and my sites are rarely down… so I just hope they’re up pretty soon cause I’ve got some important goings on online….
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July 14th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Update: My hosted domains are now accessible again. I’m also able to ssh to skittle.dreamhost.com as well…
July 14th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Connecting to alondra.dreamhost.com
Unable to resolve host: alondra.dreamhost.com
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July 18th, 2007 at 2:50 am
Hi. Looks like everything is back to normal now. I can now access the panel and mails are not being bounced any more.
July 18th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
THIS has nothing to do with your websites. THEY will WORK. YOUR mail will be there if you use mail.yourdomain.com to connect. If you use *.dreamhost.com, then it wont work. Regardless, you can always access your email from.
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Thanks for the info, was wondering why webftp and panel weren’t working.
Glad to see you’re alreading looking into that.