I just want to setup DNS, Please Help - One IP & Debian Etch

[emil2k]

Hi,

I have set up a development machine at home with Debian Etch and everything works fine, I am able to SSH and see sites on my server from outside of my network via my public IP (can't view via public ip inside network) ... anyhow everything works fine, but I'm kind of confused as to how to set up my DNS so I can simply access (SSH, view, and etc.) my server via my domain instead of alternating between the public and private ip depending on whether I'm with in my network.

I have a domain that is registered with GoDaddy and only one public IP address, can someone please help me set this up. I don't quite understand the DNS process when it comes to registering nameservers at GoDaddy and then waiting for who knows how long ... just confused

I have tried some tutorials so I have edited these files so please tell me if these are right, and I have port-forwarded port 53 for DNS:

/etc/resolv.conf

domain  mydomain.com
nameserver 68.345.96.12
nameserver 192.168.1.1

/etc/hostname

mydomain.com

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.101   mydomain.com  dev1

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

^ I think I really messed up the hosts file