Re: Full Internet name

Yes, it's the external IP address that your ISP assigns to your account. Ask them if you have a static or dynamic. If it's a static give that to the hosting company. If it's dynamic, you'll have to go with another company like http://www.dyndns.com/ to create the A record and then use a utility to update that record as the IP address changes

Costas


"Brian Elkins" <BrianElkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5FA221FA-165F-4FC9-9FEB-6B26AED51BB4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Costas,

Thank you for the quck reply. I didn't understand that I had to have the
ISP create a A and MX record.

Since the internal router is running NAT I assume the IP address I would
provide would be the external router IP, correct?

Brian


Call the company that hosts your email server and give them the IP address
of your server your are installing. I assume that you have a static IP
address (if not then you need to do something different). Ask them to
create an A record (and give them a name for your server ... e.g.
'myserver'). When they do that, you will be able to ping your server by
using: myserver.conkolami.org

That's the full Internet name for your server.

When your server is complete, call the hosting company again, and ask them
to create an MX record to point to your server (or change the MX record that
currently points to their own servers). That will make the emails coming to
your server

Costas


"Brian Elkins" <BrianElkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:30AAC8D9-8024-4F65-943B-BE223C1D802A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I'm setting up SBS 2003 for the first time and I just ran into a > stumbling
> point (probably due to my lack of knowledge with regard to web > services).
>
> Here is the scenario:
>
> Full Computer Name: ServerName.CONKOLAMI.local
> Domain: CONKOLAMI.local
>
> The website (www.conkolami.org) is hosted by a company (Infinology) > that
> provides web hosting services and is currently providing the email
> services
> as well.
>
> I'm going to install Exchange so the email server is hosted locally and
> set
> the server up so OWA can be used.
>
> The ISP is a local provider.
>
> I'm running ICW.exe and I'm being prompted with "The full Internet name > of
> your server is required."
>
> I'm a bit confused as to what exactly should be entered.
>
> Thank you for any assistance.


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