Ian, all you have to do is to tell to your ISP to add a A record to their DNS dbase for your domain. Eg 127.0.0.1 points to mynewserver.com. You don't need to run your DNS server to have this!!! Ian Harrell wrote:
Hello all,
What I am trying to do and my setup is as follows.
Comp1: Suse Linux 9.0 and Apache 2, samba etc Mainly setup to be a server for http and storage space
Comp2: Windows XP General use and gaming
Both computers are connected to a router and then into my broadband ISP which has a static IP address. The router is currently setup to portforward ssh and http requests to Comp1.
I just registered a domain name with my ISP. Don't want to give the exact one out so we will use mynewserver.com.
Using dig and whois I can see that the domain is listed as being owned by my ISP and their nameservers are shown for it as well.
I want to be able to use the domain name to allow friends and family to connect to my web server. Meaning they only have to type in www.mynewserver.com http://www.mynewserver.com/ and voila welcome to my website.
I can currently access the website with no problems at all by using the numeric IP address.
My question to the list, since my ISP "doesn't offer support for linux servers" and try to hang up extremely fast right after they ask which OS I am using, is do I need to do anything in the way of running a nameserver on my Comp1 to update my ISP's nameserver so that they will point to me or should this be something that my ISP is supposed to do?
If I am supposed to be running the nameserver on my end, can someone please point me to a guide or something that is fairly simple and straightforward on setting one up?
Many many thanks in advance, IK Harrell