Comments on: How Do You Point Your Registered Domain Name To Your Hom Eip?

By: blamay22

blamay22 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:34:03 +0000

If you have your own server and webpage it must have an address doesnt it? Thats what you direct it to

By: dodgeboy

dodgeboy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:39:11 +0000

your webserver is apache by any chance?
if it the case find out what port number apache uses on your computer/router and then the web address would be something like thishttp://your.i.p.address:apacheportnumber and thats what the redirecting address for you domain name would be

By: Jeroonk

Jeroonk — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:07:32 +0000

DNS is a concept that has multiple types of ‘translation’ records. There records are continuously exchanged between DNS servers, so if GoDaddys server has it, your ISP will also have it in up to 48 hours.
The record for translating a domain name to an IP is called an ‘A record’, godaddy has support for adding this.

By: Gandalf Parker

Gandalf Parker — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:09:31 +0000

When you get a domain at GoDaddy they will provide a minimum webspace at least for a webpage.
Then if you go into the DNS file it creates for your domain (called a Zone File) it will be quite clear. Lets say you got example.com
There will be example.com and an IP
http://www.example.com and an IP
mailservers to handle the mail for example.com with their IPs
possible some others such as http://ftp.example.com and gallery.example.com
You can just go ahead and change any of those you want to your IP number and save it. Anywhere from 1 day to a week it will wash all thru the caches on the net to make it official for everyone
But remember, DNS is just Domain NAME server. It translates the name, to an address. Lets say that your IP is 127.0.0.1 and you tell GoDaddy to send all http://www.example.com and emails for @example.com to that IP. You still will have to have something set to receive and handle www and email requests. Just pointing it at your home computer wont do much without server software.