Re: Fairly new to DNS ... few Questions
From: David Taylor (mcp916removethis806_at_removethistoo@hotmail.com)
Date: 03/10/04
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:42:23 -0600
your external, ISP hosted DNS should have an A record pointing for your
exteranal web host pointing to the address on the outside of your router.
If you are running DNS for internal use, it should contain a record for
itself using the internal address, as well as records for you clients, etc.
If you are not you will want to modify the "host" file on your workstation
to include an entry with the internal address and external host name of the
server. If you only have a few computers this is the way to go, because you
do not have to run DNS on your webserver.... a security risk if the server
is hacked.
For convience you can use the same host name internally as well as
externally...but with separate IP addresses. By doing so, you'll be able to
access the server by name from either inside or outside.
"E.Heaton" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
Please bare with me, as this is all new.
I'm trying to get a web server runng from my home business. I'm using
Windows 2003 Standard running IIS 6.0, behind a Netgear Router connected
to a cable modem. Port forwarding is successfully enabled on the router,
and working correctly. I also have a registered domain name, and dns
service (not hosted by myself) that's connected to my WAN IP address.
I had the server set up before so it was actually doing the routing, and had
DNS successfully configured for a forward look-up zone worked with my
.com name. It was setup and working before, but I'm not sure I completely
understood what was happening. Now that its behind the router, I'm even
more unsure how to properly set this up.
My questions are as follows:
Should my host(A) records be pointing to my internal IP address or
External
IP address?
I would like to be able to access my server from the domain.com address
from both my internal network, and externally. The way the netgear router is
setup, I can't access my server internally via the IP address... is there a
way
to work around this?
...and Finally, once setup ...how exactly is this working?
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