http://diymacserver.com/forum/ DIYMacServer Topic: No static IP, is it still possible to host a website? en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:44:10 +0000 http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/no-static-ip-is-it-still-possible-to-host-a-website#post-755 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:55:08 +0000 richard 755@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ <p>DNS is a sort of address book with the only differnce that you can have multiple types of addresses (the record types). Here is a list of possible types:<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types</a></p> <p>The mostly used A type translates a host/domain name into an ip address.</p> <p>An MX record is a pointer to the mailserver of the specified domain.</p> <p>Your ISP should give you your ip-address, you should link the domain name to the ip yourself (the A record) with one of the Dynamic DNS providers. There you could also specify your MX record.</p> <p>You can poke this data set on your mac via the commandline:<br /> dig recordtype domainname </p> <p>like:</p> <p>dig A diymacserver.com (will return my ip address)<br /> dig MX diymacserver.com (will return pointers to my mailservers) </p> http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/no-static-ip-is-it-still-possible-to-host-a-website#post-754 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:55:29 +0000 Torrak 754@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ <p>Hi Richard</p> <p>Thanx for quick reply and a nice link. And lot of "Ho ho ho" from Santa for good service ;-)<br /> Accordingly, however I still have some question:</p> <p>Domain name:<br /> ... For a domain you need an A record ...<br /> What do you mean with "A record"? I do own some domain names from <a href="http://www.one.com" rel="nofollow">www.one.com</a> but they don't confirm anything that could relate to an "A record"</p> <p>Later: For sending a receiving mail ... MX records:<br /> prio domail ip-address ...<br /> Neither those informations are given from my ISP</p> <p>How should I poke with those data in my own server?</p> <p>PS:<br /> It might just be me, however you are welcome to add something "xxx" when you quote or refer to a certain text or sign. </p> <p>Actual example is in your text: The wildcard will ... like www or test and it will ...<br /> As I understand it, I will put " " signs in "www" and maybe in the "test"? Am I right? </p> http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/no-static-ip-is-it-still-possible-to-host-a-website#post-753 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:08:18 +0000 richard 753@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ <p>Hi Torrak, low budget is the purpose of this site. Getting your Mac running server components without paying for the server license.</p> <p>You can use any dynamic DNS provider you want, you need to use DNSupdate to send a new ip-address to your DNS provider. Read more here: <a href="http://diymacserver.com/preparation/what-you-need/" rel="nofollow">http://diymacserver.com/preparation/what-you-need/</a></p> <p>Give my regards to santa! </p> http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/no-static-ip-is-it-still-possible-to-host-a-website#post-752 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:29:39 +0000 Torrak 752@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ <p>Upload and Download and static IP is very expensive in my country GREENLAND. Since I'm new to Mac mini Server, I would like to start with low budget.<br /> I have and own handful of websites around the world, and I would like to link to my own server. Can someone out there help a remote living Mac fanboy. Actually Santa Claus is living in my backyard ;-) </p>