Re: Recommended DDNS?

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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
stephen <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DynDNS for me too! For clients with dynamic IPs I set up an account
and create CNAME records in the public DNS for their own domain name
pointing to the DynDNS hostname for the sbs server. For example:

sbs.mydomain.com. IN CNAME mydomain.dyndns.org.
or
server.mydomain.com. IN CNAME mydomain.dyndns.org.

The sbs SSL cert is then created for sbs.mydomain.com and you access
RWW and OWA using https://sbs.mydomain.com/remote etc. with no need
to refer to the DynDNS name directly.

Why not just use DynDNS as your DNS host so you don't need their domain name at all?

In most cases the client has pre-existing hosting for their domain and public website so I tend to just use what they've already got. Many web hosting environments (like cPanel) need a local dns zone file for a hosted site so moving/copying it elsewhere can cause confusion and leave 2 places where changes need to be made.

I also set up web forwarding on an external server for
http://remote.mydomain.com/ -> https://sbs.mydomain.com/remote/ and
http://webmail.mydomain.com/ -> https://sbs.mydomain.com/exchange so
the users have an easier URL to remember and don't have to type the
https:// part.

Using WebHop? That works well.

I usually set it up on their public web server, for example, I'll use the subdomains domains feature in cPanel to implement the forwarding or do it directly in an Apache configuration file.

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stephen
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