On Mon, 27 May 2002, Franki wrote: > I dont' think dyndns do it.. its a tough situation to be in.. a dns server > doesn't supply any info on ports. its just supplies the IP address from a > domain name.. (I don't know honestly if the returned IP can be in the format > 123.123.123.123:8080 but I doubt it.. (and then any call to any port smtp or > pop3 or whatever would end up on your web server.) > > you need an interim server that can do a port redirect for you... port 80 to > whatever.. > > so your server gets called "domain.com" and your website is www.domain.com > the later is attached to an IP on that interim server and any requests to it > on port 80 are directed to to port whatever on your setup.. > > dyndns don't do it.. but I vaguely remember hearing about one of the online > services that do it.. (had something to do with proxy redirects.. but I > didnt' need it so I didn't pay alot of attention.) > > like I said, any web host can do it.. you can set it up in the web server > itself, or use a page on a server to use meta tags or JS to change > www.domain.com to domain.com:8080 or whatever port you want..(even a > iptables firewall rule can do it..) > > its not a perfect answer, but it would work well enough. >
Actually, it seems as though all that may be unnecessary now...my ISP may not be blocking port 80 after all...it might just be my router. Do I feel silly? Yes. But thats fine, if I can run my website off my own server. Now if I could just figure out what I'm doing wrong with this bloody router...lol...
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