Re: how to make and use subdomains

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Hi Sharad, I'm moving from shared ISP hosting to my own dedicated server.

I am trying to setup some stuff but I'm also trying to understand this stuff
better.
as I mentioned when I registered my domain with serverbeach dns tool it
autocreated various subdomains like mail, ftp, pop etc.

I have an ftp server setup and when I connect I can connect by ip or
mydomain.com or anysubdomain.mydomain.com... well not any, but any of the
ones that are created.

I thought subdomains routed traffic to specific locations or ports. so when
i see a subdomain like pop or smtp or ftp I THOUGHT that that each one would
be routed to whatever so

ftp.mydomain.com would auto route to the ftp port 21
or smtp.mydomain.com would be specifically for smtp port 25

But, as I found out with my ftp AND mail server is that I can connect to
both with just mydomain.com and if I decide to put any subdomain in front of
it it connects just fine also.

On my old webhost I created a subdomain called guild.mydomain.com and when
you typed it in your browser it would direct you to a folder that I
specified... which was just actually mydomain.com/guild but it could have
been anyfolder I believe, even many folders within guild.

So, I want to make subdomains that go to other folders of my website. And
then I want to make a subdomain that would work with services... I have a
gameserver installed and I can't connect using mydomain.com only myip:port
I also have a teamspeak server setup, but I can't connect with mydomain.com
only myip:port


Now while typing this e-mail I tried typing ftp.mydomain.com into my web
browser and instead of loading my website it di actually turn into ftp and
ask me to enter ftp info to connect.

I hope I wasn't too long winded here but I try to be as thorough as I can
when askin for help online. :/


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