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by 3phatladies

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First of all thanks to anyone that helps me
with this...i hope it makes sense

I can remote into my server locally but wish
to do so when in the field. I can do this if
i use
https://server.mydomain.dyndns.org/remote but
wish to remote into my domain as
https://server.mydomain.com/remote

#I have a dynamic ip from isp so registered
dynamic dns then installed dyndns updater on
the server
#Then i purchased custom dns and set a new
host which is mydomain.com and created the A
name to my ip address and created a mx record
of 10 mydomain.com. (if i mxlookup my domain
the it shows 10 mydomain my ip with 60 as
ttl)
#I also updated my webhost nameservers to
ns1.mydyndns.org etc

To summarize
1: nslookup http://www.mydomain.com points to
my webhost ip
2: nslookup http://www.mydomain.dyndns.org
points to my ip
3: nslookup http://www.server.mydomain.com
comes back non-existant domain
4: nslookup
http://www.server.mydomain.dyndns.org points
to my domain

More info will be given if needed.Thanks
again

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by cg it

Server.mydomain.com indicates a 3rd tier of the root, mydomain.com. You need a record in DNS for the zone mydomain.com that says server.mydomain.com = your public ip address. if your domain name, mydomain.com, resolves to a 3rd party hosting service, then the DNS hosting service that provides name resolution for your domain name, mydomain.com has to create a record server.mydomain.com = your public IP address.

by 3phatladies

Hey CG. Please bear with me...

So on my sbs box in dnsmgmt I have in the
mydomain.com zone:

NAME TYPE DATA
(same as parent) NS server.mydomain.local
server CNAME server.mydomain.local
WWW A record webhost ip

So should I have (ANOTHER) A record pointing
to my public ip?

And in mydomain.local zone:

NAME TYPE DATA
(same as parent) NS server.mydomain.local
(same as parent) Host(A) server ip
companyweb (CNAME) server.mydomain.local
Then A records for my local pcs

by cg it

for your .com domain name?

If not, then what ever 3rd party service is the authoritative name server for your .com domain name has to create an A record for the 3rd tier domain name.. example: support.yourdomain.com that has to point to your public IP address.

by 3phatladies

Thanks for your input again.

So as I use a customdns @ dyndns I then
created another A record with
server.mydomain.com pointing to my public ip.

I sure this is what you mean and I know can
access the network.

Thanks.

by cg it

from there on your private network, you have to have something that recognizes support.yourdomain.com = where ever you want that traffic to go [forward to a server on the network] It comes in on port 80 [http traffic is port 80/https is port 443]

Suggest you read up on Domain Name Service...and if your using a Windows Platform read up on how Windows handles DNS.

by 3phatladies

Okay so in the mydomain.local within dnsmgmt
I have server with A record pointing to my
servers ip.

I hope this is what you mean and yes a DNS
read is in motion...really appreciate the
help though.

It's been pretty interesting as I've just
setup untangle with an AP within the network
so obviously wanted to get the ports and dns
sorted out.

Thanks.

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