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Originally Posted by Kankles
my prob is DNS. its the one area i'm really sketchy on. i registerd myself a domain and now i have control over that apparently. at least i can tell it which name servers i want it to use anyway.
so i presume if i want my domain to point to my fed 4 server which is behind a router then i need to set the name server on my registerd domain to my ip address and open my router to allow passage through to my server at 192.168.1.5?
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Yes.
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Originally Posted by Kankles
my router includes a dns server apparently.. perhaps i need that to deal with dns requests?
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It's not a DNS server, it's a DNS resolver, i.e., it asks other name servers.
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Originally Posted by Kankles
my other query is this; during setup, you can choose dhcp or set dns custom.
my router has a dhcp server but i have set to perminantly lease the ip 192.168.1.5 to the mac address of my servers ethernet.
so i continue as custom and set my static ip for this server to 192.168.1.5?
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You should always use a static IP address for a server.
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Originally Posted by Kankles
then it asks me to enter my gateway and dns servers  so i figure my router is my gateway, right? 192.168.1.1 i presume as non of my other p.c.s can lease that from it. |
That's right.
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Originally Posted by Kankles
so what are my dns servers? is it asking me for the ip of a root dns server i.e. a.root-servers.net or something else?
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You can use any resolving name server that you know, e.g. the ones mentioned in the tutorial or the ones your ISP has given you. If your router rellay has a resolving name server, you can even use your router's IP address as name server.