I set up a windows server 2003 standard edition with a fixed ip. There is no name server.
I contacted godaddy and it replied that I need to change the nameserver.
How should I point the domain to my machine which does not has nameserver and only has fixed ip?
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I think it's just your choice of words that confused them. Pointing a domain means that you want to run your own name server but I don't think this is what you want. You want to change the A record for the domain name to have the IP address of your Server 2003.
By the way, I hope that the static IP that your server has is global one.
Hi,
This is how it works.
You have a windows 2003 server with fixed ip and you want to point your domain to that ip . There are two options you can go with godaddy.
1. You need to have a nameserver : In this case, you need to have your own nameserver, which will in turn point that domain name to your windows 2003 server with fixed ip. In this case godaddy would act as your nameserver's root name server. So godaddy will just give your nameservers ip for anyone requesting that domain.
2. You don't have a nameserver : In case you don't have a nameserver, you can still use godaddy's nameserver to point the domain to your ip. For this you can go to the TOTAL DNS Control Section of go daddy and change the Name Records.
There are different kinds of records :
A Record : if you just want to point your domain to that ip address, you can set that ip address in your A record .
MX record : if you want to point your domains mail server to that ip address, you can set the ip address in MX record.
PTR Record : If you want to use reverse lookup as well, you can set that in PTR Record.
Hope that helps.
you need to have a dns server. there are several free out there. i prefer www.gratisdns.dk but there are several out there.
if you want to use it localy only you could enter your domain into your hosts file in windows, but it would only work for you, and not anyone else that wants to visit your site.
current A record is 68.178.232.100
and it has nameservers
Do I add a new A record for my server IP OR
Remove current A record and add my server IP
And
Do I need to remove godaddy nameservers?
There is no DNS server, the server hosts in data center and it has a fixed public IP only.
I knew how to set up a website with host header in IIS on windows 03 server.
if you want your domain "domainnamegoeshere.com" to point to your home computer (whose IP address is, for example, 172.0.0.1), the A record would list "domainnamegoeshere.com", or "@" as the host and "172.0.0.1" as the "Points To" IP address. Entering "@" will automatically insert your domain name as the host name for the A Record. If the A Record is for the domain "www.domainnamegoeshere.co
So, if I want to point the domain, then I need to create 2 A host, right?
1. domainname.com -> hostname @, IP address
2. www.domainname.com -> hostname www, IP address
Yes ,
You need to make sure you have static public ips, if you have dynamic ips assigned by DHCP server by an ISP you use dynamic dns in ur server
www.dyndns.org
Thanks
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by: demazterPosted on 2009-10-31 at 07:39:06ID: 25709955
Someone will host your external domain name, they will have nameservers that serve this.
You need to contact them and ask them to setup an A record, so if you have purchased a domain name through godaddy they should be able to help you with this.
Or you can do it through your control panel