Domain Headaches

The site has been down for all of last night and most of today, mostly due to too much tinkering on my part. As you may have noticed I've had my own domain for quite a while now (although I still use Blogger to host) but I've also had a very annoying problem with it.

If you go to http://www.nosignalinput.co.uk it works totally fine, as does http://nosignalinput.blogspot.com, but missing out the 'www' part will not load the site. I have been trying to fix this, following tonnes of tutorials, but it has pretty much been to no avail. I did fix it last night, but it stopped working soon after and most of today has been a complete headache trying to get things back to normal.

So, now the site works again but I still have the same problem as before. If anyone knows anything about CNAME's and all that crap then I'd appreciate some direct advice, as most of the tutorials out there say a lot without actually saying anything useful about fixing the problem. I don't need a detail explanation of CNAME's and DNS, I just need a fix!

I'm just about ready to give up on this one, but I know it works somehow!

UPDATE: ...and just like that the problem is fixed! I must have done something right, and the DNS settings have just finally updated. I won't hold my breath that the problem stays fixed forever though.

Now back to your regularly scheduled blogging!

UPDATE 2: Sigh, it seems the problem is not fixed. I've reverted to my old blogspot address for the meantime while my new DNS settings take some time to propagate the Internet (I'll probably still have the original problem though). There's no need to change your links as my http://www.nosignalinput.co.uk address is redirecting to my blogspot address.

Why can't things ever be simple?

UPDATE 3: Ok, everything should be back to normal now. If you're coming directly to the site you have to put the 'www' in front of the url because it's still not working without it. I'll give it a few days to see if it puts itself right, but past experience shows me that it probably won't work. I'm fed up with messing with it anyway, and the offline time I've suffered through has wiped out what little traffic I had left.

P.S Gnome, if you're reading this can you tell me what DNS settings you used to get your site to load with and without the 'www'? Thanks!