The domain name is tonedeafstudios.com. (At this point, too, the page you will see is the default page for MacHTTP.) I turned on what GoDaddy calls, "masking", to hide the IP address, but all that did was set up a frameset with my IP on the bottom frame and their "blank"page of size=0 on top, so it looks like people are only seeing www.tonedeafstudios.com. So it kind of messed up any error checking.
What it was doing was when I typed in the IP address, it went straight to the website and the IP address replaced the domain name. I tried to get to the administration page of SIMS through the IP address:8010 and it connected fine. But when I did www.tonedeafstudios.com:8010 then it would just hang and nothing would come up. I talked with the folks at GoDaddy.com and the tech I spoke with explained that since I just registered my domain through them and that's all, that I would not be able to have my Mail Server (SIMS) work through their DNS. Their MX servers, too, are only available if you use their hosting, which I don't need because I want to host my web server and mail server myself. He did walk me through registering 2 name server domains. That is done now, which points to where I will be trying out an old piece of software, MacDNS, to be the DNS for my domain name which will point to the web server and mail server. If any of you have any experience using MacDNS, any input would be helpful. This seems like such a struggle just to set up a web server and mail server, since I already have the domain name registered and all seems ready to go. I know this is a lot of info, but anything you can add would be helpful. Thanks, Mark Wheeler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SIMS Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:50 AM Subject: Re: How to get SIMS and server and everything to work right. > At 7:10 AM -0700 7/31/02, Mark Wheeler imposed structure on a stream > of electrons, yielding: > >Ok, > > > >I have my domain name, I have MacHTTP and SIMS up and running, but I can't > >seem to get my mail to work with where my domain is parked. I regitered my > >domain with GoDaddy.com and my server works, i.e. points to my static IP > >address, but I can't get SIMS to work. It is not receiveing any mail that I > >send it. As well, I get an error form GoDaddy's mail servers that it can't > >find the name/server. Before I call them, I thought I would ask those of you > >who have probably been throught something like this and make sure it is > >nothing I'M dong wrong or have forgotten. Any help you can give would be > >greatly appreciated. > > > >And Secondly, If GoDaddy is not the place to have my domain name parked, > >where is a good place? I have everything else in place, I just need to have > >my mail and web page work like they are supposed to. > > > It's pretty hard to narrow down the abundant range of potential > failure modes without hard information. What's the domain name? > -- > Bill Cole > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ############################################################# > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
