Ok, that's better. Let me try again.
1. From an external host on the Internet (telnet to a remote machine
or something), you can ping the external IP of your router. True or
False?
2. From the same place (remote machine somewhere), you can resolve
and ping using your domain name to the router. True or False?
3. On your router, since it has its public IP known to your DNS and
we've verified this, you'll need to forward ports (ahem, I forget my
well known ports here) 25 and 110. Maybe you can lose 25 cause it's
for SMTP and you only want POP3 (110).
4. As long as you can email in your private network, you should be
up and running after all these checks.
5. If not, then you may need to change the MX record(s) on your DNS
provider. I don't really understand MX records (somebody fill in
here), but that's what you have to do to use another server i.e.
barney.com versus smtp.barney.com. I think you may be ok cause
you're just using enic.cc(?) and not pop3.enic.cc or whatever.
HTH
Mario
>You close. I have a static IP and mail server that sends and a domain name.
>How do get patrick@mylinuxserverdomainname.com to reach my IP. I can email
>to my box via the private IP (patrick@1.2.3.4) I want to take the next step
>and have it abl to accept public internet mail via a domain name. enic.cc
>make this VERY easy with their URL forwarding. Then again, that's not DNS.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mario Lombardo [mailto:mario@alienscience.com]
>Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 3:17 PM
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] domain registration. Missing link?
>
>
>Patrick, I'm not sure I understand your question. I believe what you
>want is a domain name provider to offer dynamic DNS. If you're not
>sure what this is, look it up on a registration site. I use
>http://www.easydns.com They're Canadian, but they do a good job,
>offer https, and dynamic DNS amongst other things. There are
>probably cheaper though--depends on what you want.
>
>About the web site and email server, you'll need to have those port
>forwarded on your firewall configuration. I believe some of the
>better FW people can take it from here.
>
>Mario
>
>>What the missing link? With a registered domain name a static IP. What's
>>the missing think to have the DNS refer to my IP? Setting up a web site
>and
> >email server inside my firewall.
>
>
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