Hi. I tried to follow Netlify’s process to point a custom domain to my Netlify website. As in following the second step from https://app.netlify.com/sites/MYSITENAME/domain-management/setup
However, I’m still unable to set up the SSL certificate through Netlify. When I go to https://app.netlify.com/sites/polite-granita-2e99a4/domain-management#https
and click “Retry DNS verification”, I get:
DNS verification failed
randomrhythmgenerator.com doesn’t appear to be served by Netlify
I use DNS Checker to see the DNS propagation, and right now after over 24h it seems the Namservers settings have propagated to all the DNS servers.
When I try to access the domain I get ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR code.
As I assume this shows because I haven’t been able to issue the Netlify’s SSL certificate - and that’s why I’m unable to access the site.
Is this possible that I’m unable to issue the Netlify SSL certificate because in the DNS checker I also recently got all the 30 DNS servers checks as passing, and up until now it was still oscillating between 28-29/30, and I should just wait a bit more?
It’s my second try with setting up this domain to point to Netlify, and I would like to make sure I’m doing this okay this time.
The other doubt I have is that when I tried to follow Netlify’s automated process for setting up the domain is that I saw the information that providing the DNS records is (A, AAAA, and others) is optional. However I just re-wrote all the records from my domain provider. As the other information I saw from Netlify was:
" Important note: If you have any existing DNS records (like MX records for email), make sure to add these to Netlify DNS before changing the nameservers to avoid service interruptions. You can find more information on this in the Support Guide: How do I migrate a domain to Netlify DNS with zero downtime?"
I’m not sure now if I put correct values in the A record or AAAA record name - do those values matter at all when using Netlify’s DNS, or is the only thing that matters to put the Netlify’s nameservers in the domain provider (registrat)?
Could there be any more things to check to make sure that everything is ok (or will be ok - after the propagation / DNSes cache clearing)?
Netlify site: https://polite-granita-2e99a4.netlify.app/
Custom domain: randomrhythmgenerator.com
Side note: in this panel under “Production domains”, I still see the “Awaiting for Netlify DNS” status under my added external domain name.