I deployed a fresh ubuntu 10.04 and followed the LAMP guide in the library. I am able to access domain.com but www.domain.com times out. Here is my configuration:

DNS:

; example.com [125849]
$TTL 3600
@   IN   SOA   ns1.linode.com. me.example.com. (
               2010101729
               14400
               14400
               1209600
               3600 
            )
@      NS   ns1.linode.com.
@      NS   ns2.linode.com.
@      NS   ns3.linode.com.
@      NS   ns4.linode.com.
@      NS   ns5.linode.com.
@         MX   10   mail.example.com.
@         A   XX.XXX.XXX.XXX
www         A   XX.XXX.XXX.XXX
mail         A   XX.XXX.XXX.XXX

/etc/apache2/ports.conf:

NameVirtualHost XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80
Listen 80

/etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost   hostname
XX.XXX.XXX.XXX  hostname

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default:

<VirtualHost XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80>
        ServerAdmin me@example.com

        DocumentRoot /var/www
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
                AllowOverride None
                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

/etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com:



The url in question is http://www.parkerault.com/

I followed the guide to the letter, so can anyone spot what I did wrong?

EDIT: using

XX.XXX.XXX.XXX hostname.example.com hostname

in /etc/hosts doesn't change the behavior.

http://www.parkerault.com/ resolves for me. It didn't when I first clicked on the link, but upon a force-refresh it did. Maybe you could try clearing your DNS cache or the like.

Ahh, could have been openDNS or the fact that I am behind the not-so-great firewall of thailand. Thanks for the reply.