Re: Do I need a www?

You can also completely ignore your ISP and do it yourself. Your ISP will undoubtedly charge you for the privilege. Register a domain with an inexpensive domain name organization (I use godaddy, but YMMV), and then use a dedicated DNS provider, such as ZoneEdit.com. For most situations that anyone in SBS land will have, they're completely free.

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"Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-wizards(dot)com> wrote in message news:%23vrdej72HHA.600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Pat:

In order to receive email at your Exchange server you must have an ISP (internet service provider) setup DNS records for your unique, Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN), such as, www.yourdomain.com. These records tell the internet servers what IP address to deliver you mail to.

Otherwise, no one can send you mail.

For example, you can send me mail at lstruckmeyer(remove this)@mis-wizards.com.

If he maintained such an address, you could send Bill Gates mail at bgates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This works because the DNS system of the internet maintains pointers for the web sites and the mail servers separately. They translate the FQDN into IP addresses.. Mail records are called MX records. Web Site records are A or Cname records.

In addition to the MX record, you will need a PTR, or reverse lookup record. This record allows AOL and others to check that there is a real IP address in back of the www.domain.name that your mail will claim to be from. Also, if you can get through the tedious forms, you should have an SPF record, that helps keep others from "spoofing" your address.

Your ISP will know how to set all this up, or you can do it yourself on some ISP accounts, such as network solutions.

If you go to dnsreport.com, and put in any FQDN, you can see the records that have been set.

So, the answer to your question is that you should have a FQDN, and your ISP should setup the record that point your mail to the IP address of your Exchange Server.

Larry Struckmeyer




"Pat" <pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mb0qb3930nc6ui3ikuihtbb09jdsftc16l@xxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

Do I need a web address (www.mywebaddress) to get all the
functionality of SBS?

I ask this because I have a test server and I have done the basics
(add users, computers, RDP) and now I want to move onto setting up
Exchange email boxes, remote access, etc..

Assuming I do need a www, what is the next step I do with it? Do I
register it with some organization saying I am going to setup my own
server and run www.mywebaddress from my office? I already have a
statice IP at the office. A broad overview of the process would be
gratefully accpeted.

These questions may seem basic, but if you don't know you don't know

Thanks,
Pat



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