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[elpresidente]

im trying to host my own webpage on a www.domain.com and for some reason i cant get it going, i thought for sure that i had everything set up right. and i made my home domain domain.com and pointed the www name to mycomputer.domain.com with the ip addy of my external connection, had iis pointing the default webpage to my external ip. Is there something ive done wrong? the ip is static. Also can i set up telnetting on that if im running the webserver off the same one?

[syntax53]

a) did you register the domain with a company? and b) do you have your external dns servers set up?

[Raybdbomb]

are you running a web server on port 80? lol

[elpresidente]

yes im running a web server on port 80, and yeh i registered with a company, and what do u mean by external dns server?

[Reckless]

name servers?

[syntax53]

Originally posted by elpresidente

yes im running a web server on port 80, and yeh i registered with a company, and what do u mean by external dns server?



dns is hierarchied. if no outside dns servers know your server people will never be able to find you. once one dns server knows you it tells all the dns servers it knows, which tells their friends what they know, and so on and so forth (this process takes 5-48 hours).



usually the place that you registered your domain with will provide some type of that service. i know buydomains.com is cool because you can set up a "dns pointer" which basicly uses their dns servers to just point to an IP address (optimal for your situation). that wouldn't be optimal if you had a lot of dns configurations, but for you that's what you should look for.



-syn

[elpresidente]

the place i signed up with does that, all it asked for was the dns name, which i put as mycomputer.domain.com and the ip of it which i put my external ip. That would mean it would work right? if i had my iis set up correctly?!?

[Reckless]

dns has to have 2 seperate dns server ip's or addy's(nameservers), if I'm not mistaken.

[elpresidente]

can i do that on my machine?

[Aragon]

you can setup your own DNS servers. you would just need to register the nameserver. Your registrar should have a place in your control panel to do that; or if you email them they will register the nameserver(s) for you.



If you use and outside DNS, just set the A record for your domain to your IP.



Originally posted by Reckless

dns has to have 2 seperate dns server ip's or addy's(nameservers), if I'm not mistaken.



im theory maybe.. in practice, you can setup 2 nameservers with the same IP.