# How to Recover Your Custom Domain Blog on Hashnode

Hi everyone! Yeah, it's a bug fix.

I woke up to a message in my DM on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/olanetsoft), as shown below saying my [blog](https://blog.idrisolubisi.com) is not responding.

I was taken aback and investigated what had occurred; after about 5 hours, I was still trying to fix it with no success. 

## The problem

After troubleshooting, I realized the error was coming from `CNAME` mapped to my domain as suggested by Hasnode.

## How to Fix This Problem

- Go to your hashnode dashboard
- As seen below, go to the domain section:

![Screenshot 2021-06-29 at 14.57.47.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1624975178216/_s9nK6TVN.png)

In the image above:

The first highlighted section represents the `CNAME` that was added earlier to my custom DNS, which stops working all of a sudden.

The second section is the `A Record` that I replaced with the `CNAME` on my custom DNS.

- All you have to do now is go to your hosting platform and erase the `CNAME` record you added; don't worry, we'll recreate it later.

- Add the `A Record`, point it to the IP address shown in the image above.

- Your Blog should be live ✌️

>It may take up to 24 hours for DNS changes to propagate fully. But it's usually pretty quick. You can check the progress by using a [service like this](https://www.whatsmydns.net/)


## Check out your DNS health status 

Visit this URL [https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/checkmx/](https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/checkmx/)


## Conclusion

It takes a couple of hours to resolve this issue; I hope you will fix it in less than 5 minutes.

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