I have a question related to Route 53 service and DNS.
I have bought a domain and created a Hosted Zone using Terraform recently. I want to route traffic to my S3 bucket static website through CloudFront. The S3 Bucket provided static website URL seems to be working and opens up my webpage and also after adding it as an origin for the CloudFront distribution the distribution domain name also opens up the website. But when I try to use my domain name it does not work.
I have changed my Domain Name Servers to the ones in my hosted zone NS record after creating new hosted zone. I have also validated certificate and added it to the distribution. I also added two alias records (domain.com and www.domain.com) to my hosted zone. Nothing seems to work, the domain just does not work. Running CLI command nslookup domainname.com returns meesage “;; no servers could be reached”.
Route 53 docs tell that after changing the domain Name Servers there might be a need to wait for 48 hours.
I was just curious, has anyone had the similar problem that got resolved by just waiting a little longer after changing Name Servers ? Or is there something else that I should do or view ?
Around 11 hours have passed since I changed Name Servers, but nothing has changed.
As mentioned in the screen shot DNS propagation can take up to 48 hours.
To make sure if it’s propagated or not, you can Periodically check your domain using dig or DNS propagation tools:
dig NS yourdomain.com
but, before the end of the 48 hours, you cannot really know for sure wether there’s an issue or the propagation still need some time.