DNS and Windows XP Pro
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Is there a way to set up DNS on a Windows XP Professional computer? I have bought a domain, and would like to run the site, which is done in ASP.NET, on my computer. Does anyone have any ideas or helpful hints? Thanks in advance. Nick Parker
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Is there a way to set up DNS on a Windows XP Professional computer? I have bought a domain, and would like to run the site, which is done in ASP.NET, on my computer. Does anyone have any ideas or helpful hints? Thanks in advance. Nick Parker
Do you have a fixed IP address?
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Do you have a fixed IP address?
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks] "It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
Well, my answer to that is that the cable modem that I have uses DHCP to asign the IP, however, my IP address itself has never changed, so it appears to be acting as if it were static. Any ideas? Nick Parker
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Well, my answer to that is that the cable modem that I have uses DHCP to asign the IP, however, my IP address itself has never changed, so it appears to be acting as if it were static. Any ideas? Nick Parker
Probably best to contact the people you registered the domain with and get them to point it to your IP address. But I'd check to see if it's static first.
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks] "It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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Well, my answer to that is that the cable modem that I have uses DHCP to asign the IP, however, my IP address itself has never changed, so it appears to be acting as if it were static. Any ideas? Nick Parker
If you're absolutely certain that your IP address doesn't change (most cable providers do change them periodically), then you can notify the registrar of your domain name of that IP address. Registrars will handle the DNS for you. I Drowned Schroedinger's Stupid Cat!
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Well, my answer to that is that the cable modem that I have uses DHCP to asign the IP, however, my IP address itself has never changed, so it appears to be acting as if it were static. Any ideas? Nick Parker
Sign up to www.mydomain.com and set up a MyDomain Plus account for your domain (tis free). Get your domain to point its DNS record to ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com. Then in Mydomain.com point the domain to your IP. You can set up all sorts of subdomains with mydomain.com as they will act as your DNS servers.
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Is there a way to set up DNS on a Windows XP Professional computer? I have bought a domain, and would like to run the site, which is done in ASP.NET, on my computer. Does anyone have any ideas or helpful hints? Thanks in advance. Nick Parker
I use www.dyndns.org with a custom domain to do more or less the same thing. It works well. And that will work even if your IP address does change.
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I use www.dyndns.org with a custom domain to do more or less the same thing. It works well. And that will work even if your IP address does change.
Thanks everyone, I wanted to get the site up quickly, so I just *switched* my configuration from DHCP to static and bought the Advanced DNS Management package from Verisgn. Thanks for all the tips though. Nick Parker