Godaddy : linking domain name to IP address

Question

I just bought a domain name for my web site from GoDaddy.

the content of the site is available at a public IP address.

how do I link my domain name to the IP address ?

how do I make it so that when someone types in my domain name, the content of the web server is displayed ?

thanks.

thijs · Answer 1 · 2010-05-19 14:48:33Z

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answered May 19 '10 at 14:48

	thanks. just did it. but it doesn't yet display the content of my website. is there any period of time to wait for before it starts working ? – Lokpere May 19 '10 at 15:05
	DNS can take up to 24 hours to propagate through the internet. – Campo May 19 '10 at 15:43
	Yes, but in practice normally this is 2-3 hours. – Andrejs Cainikovs May 19 '10 at 16:06
	it's been 2 hours I did the config and right now, any attempt to access the page yields : "Failed to Connect. Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at pdftomp3.com." – Lokpere May 19 '10 at 17:40
	@Lokpere: `dig` and `nslookup` both resolve your domain name. `ping` and `mtr` either never succeed or give an error. A browser gives a host not available error. – Dennis Williamson May 19 '10 at 22:51

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