How to associate a domain name and IP address?

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Published on 2010-06-13T05:26:48Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 5:32 UTC
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The situation is as follows:

I am renting a dedicated server using SliceHost. On this server I have installed a small HTTPServer. I can verify that it works by nativating directly to its IP address (example).

I have also purchased a domain name from gandi.net and would like to link it with to my server. However, I'm having much trouble finding clear instructions on how to create this link. After a few hours of reading documentation and trying out things I ended up the following configuration.

on the DNS registrar I have specified the following settings:

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on the Slicehost server I specified these "records":

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But it doesn't seem to work. I end up on this page telling me the domain name is not available.

Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?

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