There are an increasing number of support tickets coming in asking, “why am I getting a name lookup time out” .
This is a cURL error that happens when one server tries to read the response of another servers’ page. Like when CommentLuv asks feedburner for your feed. Sometimes it can be a temporary thing, all of a sudden you start seeing that error but you haven’t changed anything.
This happened to me once when I was parsing the contents of a php script I have on another server, it worked for months without fail so I couldn’t understand why it was failing now. A couple of days later, it started working again.
Turns out, my hosting company for the script being parsed changed the ip of the server at the time of the failures starting. I didn’t think this could make any difference because my other script uses the url and not the IP but the hosting company tells me that the server doing the fetching was using an old DNS that hadn’t been updated with the new servers IP’s yet.
When I changed server for CommentLuv the last time there were a few people getting these errors.
Conclusion, I think Google have done something with the feedburner servers and that’s why so many of you are seeing the error. Please give it 48 hours so that IP’s and DNS’s can catch up and it should go back to normal.
My solution was taken long ago, I switched off my feedsmith plugin. I use the wordpress built in feeds.
Did you know that anyone can view the wonderful array of feeds you get as default in Wordpress? You can see a feed for just one category here just by adding /feed to the end of a category url .
My blog tools category has a url of
http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/category/blog-tools/feed
If you update your feed location, you also need to update your feed url at the commentluv site. That stores the last successful feed location for you so visit the commentluv “claim your site” page after you log in and check “your feed url” to see if it points to the old feeds.feedburner address.
08.05.09 9:13 pm
But Andy, if you turn off the feedburner plugin then how are you able to see the number of subscribers you have?
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#109.05.09 1:22 am
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Seems to be working now.
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#209.05.09 5:45 pm
I’am Sorry my comment disconnect.
After i install YATCP why comment luv not activ?
I was Change single post.php:
to
any sugestion?
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#309.05.09 5:51 pm
I mean i was changed
comments_template()
to
yatcp_comments_template()
in single post.php
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#410.05.09 12:37 pm
mikael: there are multiple tutorials out there that allow you to track your feed subscribers. I’ll see if I can get time to put some up on the new site
witchypoo: thanks for telling me, I was sure it’d sort itself out.
dafidraiu: first suggestion is to use the support ticket system. I can track that much easier
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#513.05.09 5:26 pm
Cool information. I’m getting xml parsing error
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13.05.09 5:28 pm
Great info man. Thanks
#714.05.09 1:06 am
ugh thank you so much. I had no clue what was going on
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#814.05.09 7:35 pm
Waiting to read your next blog.
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#1018.05.09 3:39 am
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I’ve been racking my brain about this as, I had just redirected my RSS to Feedburner & I thought it was that.
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