Google Sitemaps… URL timeout: DNS lookup timeout
Submitting my sitemaps to Google proved a little more difficult than I expected. Sure the webmaster tools make the process of submitting the links to the sitemaps relatively easy, but attempting to resolve any issues you might have if things are not working are a little more difficult.
After I generated the sitemaps I then made my way over to the webmaster tools to submit them. I had to submit two sitemaps, one for mcnicholl.com and one for the blog. It seems to take google varying amounts of time to conduct the download and checking of the sitemaps so I didnt get instant feedback. When I did though, it wasnt what I was expecting. Both of my sitemaps got the following error :
URL timeout: DNS lookup timeout
This type of error would instantly tell me that I :
- Had made a spelling mistake when typing in the URL to the sitemap
- Had issues with my DNS servers
So in addressing these, I typed in the link I had supplied to google into the address bar of Firefox. This brought up the XML straight away. So the link was correct.
Next I checked out the situation with my DNS servers. I generated a report over at DNSStuff.com. This did explain some issues with my DNS servers, but when I mentioned these to my webhost they said I had nothing to worry about.
At this stage I was puzzled. What is causing this error?
After continually submitting the same link to google in the vain hope that it might magically work, I contacted my host again for some troubleshooting advice. Needless to say my sitemaps are working perfectly now. It turns out that there was an issue with the folder permissions in place. After having these reset – everything was working perfectly.
Now, after I submit a new post to the blog the sitemap is updated and google gets a ping all at the same time.
I am afcing same problem since 6th sept..:(
Hi Trakin,
I jumped through a lot of hoops to try to resolve this issue.
Did you create the sitemap manually or through a wordpress plugin?
i have uploaded sitemap but its showing error URL timeout: DNS lookup timeout. what to do ?
i have also same problem please tel what to do
what to do ?
i have same problem for sitemap.xml is already about 1 month
i have same problem for sitemap.xml is already about 1 Week, Please help me!!!!