Hi,

I'll be testing my work on my home server which I have just setup. It is a Windows 2000 Server running SP3 patched up to date.

Firstly i'm not running anything commercial. It's just for development and testing so to speak. I have tried the search of these forums but didn't come up with much.

I have a 512k cable connection to my server.
I have one dynamic IP which changes every few weeks/months.
It will most likely not be possible to get extra IP's.

I have no problems getting Windows 2000/ IIS working but here is where I stumble...

In order to set some domains up I need to have DNS servers right? I see I can't do this with just one IP. This leads me to the thinking that I can setup another DNS Zone file for the site I wish to run at home, on my Cpanel/WHM resellers account. However I am not sure what DNS entries I need. My thoughts are I could run a service like DNS2GO perhaps thought I would ideally like to do this 'properly' i.e more like it would be in the hosting on most servers.

Let me know what you recommend. Perhaps any sites?

EDIT: I would also like to run mail but am not quite sure how to setup MS SMTP server on this connection

Thanks

Take a look at the ZoneEdit site (http://www.zoneedit.com). The provide free DNS for you and they also have some links to software that will update the DNS to sync up with dynamic IP addresses.

Lot's of registrars offer forwarding these days, although I don't know of any that will do the dynamic "chase you IP" service for folks hosting on dynamic IPs.

Yes, in most cases you can use your cpanel (or whatever if it has DNS running) - the easiest way to tell you what entries to use are to just look at another DNS entry on your machine. The things that will be replaced are obviously the domain name and the IP address. Make sense?

Thanks Mike i'll take a look.

lpguitars - The thing is if I create a record like that I would need to update it everytime i got a new IP wouldn't I ?

Yes. If you use WHM you'll have to manualy update it when it changes.

Or you can make your own software that will store the IP locally and check for the current IP every maybe every X minutes, if it is changed it will automatically do the update.

I'm not sure, though, how you would implement such a feature. WHM has an API that might be useful.

The Laughing Cow

I Do the same thing, and use zoneedit.com

You have the ability to completely customize your zone records.

the refresh rate is pretty quick, and if it's not fast enuff, you can change it.

Enjoy
Just a note you may want to download the MS Lockdown Tool (http://search.microsoft.com/gomsuri.asp?n=2&c=rp_BestBets&siteid=us/products/servers/servers&target=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=33961&area=search&ordinal=2)

Thanks a lot, I have downloaded one of the IP update utilities and setup an account with Zoneedit. I am waiting for DNS propogation now.

The only thing I am not quite sure from the Zoneedit control panel is how to setup subdomains. I am sure I will devle into it more, I thought it was a CNAME record or something

I'd use an A record for subdomains if you are pointing to sub directories in your main domain, then point the subdoamin using a virtual server.

If you DNS updater is using the http interface into ZoneEdit, you might want to check if the updater supports the https protocol. ZoneEdit suports SSL on their DNS updates, so your passwords won't be sent in clear-text.

First get it working in clear-text, then get it working in SSL mode, then change your password. :D