Error when generating API key for site

Yes, do not worry about that, you can still try to create the API with your current domain, but if the API service fails to generate the key you will know that this this is reason.

The plugin basically reverses the domain name to find its main IP address like this [1] and then compares the output of that function with the domain that was specified, if both values are the same the plugin considers that the DNS A record is missing and display the warning. If this is the case you can try to run the same code with the “www” at the beginning of the domain like this [2] and you will probably find that the output is different.

Or if you know about Bash then you can use this script [3] that I wrote to generate an API for any domain. If you continue having issues contact us at [email protected] and ask us to generate a key for your site (you must specific the email address and domain name that you want to use to generate the API key).

[1] gethostbyname(‘example.com’)
[2] gethostbyname(‘www.example.com’)
[3] https://cixtor.com/pastio/f476kn

Thanks for the tips Yorman. I am not sure I completely understand the issue. If I ping both the www and non-www versions of the domain, the IP address is the same. Not sure how the DNS setup I have for this domain is any different than any of the other domains we manage.

I ran your script and received the same error (below) for both the www and non-www versions of the domain.

{
"action": "register_site",
"messages": [
"Invalid domain. Not accepted."
],
"output": {},
"request_time": 1433344337,
"status": 0,
"verbose": 0
}

When you say “ping” you refer to the system command? Do you get the same IP address executing the “host” [1] or “dig” [2] commands?

Anyway, you can use that script to generate an API key any domain, obviously people would prefer to associate the key to their real website but in this case it is not possible because the domain has no DNS A record, having the same IP address is not really relevant, the issue is that the A record is missing from the non-www domain.

Run the script once again, add your own email address (the real one) and any domain like “twitter.com” or whatever, no one else will be able to generate a key with that domain, and I do not think that people at Twitter are using this plugin so there will be no problem here.

[1] host -s -t A -W 1 example.com
[2] dig -t A +nocmd +noall +answer example.com

The first command results in an error.

;; connection timed out; trying next origin
Host xxxx.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

The second does produce a good result, namely the correct IP address.

Ok. I have done your suggestion and it worked. Thanks for the prompt feedback.