Actually, we do all of our sites through GoDaddy and if you're hosting it at home the best way to forward that domain is to actually forward the domain. GoDaddy has this capability built right into the control panel.
1. Click on the domain name and the page will reload with that domain's information on the right side of the screen.
2. Click the + sign on the "Total DNS Control", it will again reload the page with this sub category being exposed.
3. Select "Total DNS Control And MX Records " from the list. It will spawn a window.
4. Under your HOST or A record you should see something like this:
Host Points To TTL
@ XX.XXX.XXX.XXX 3600 Edit Delete
5. Click Edit.
6. Leave the host name as "@"
7. Under Step 2 change it to your IP.
8. Leave the TTL value at 1 hour.
9. Click continue and logout. Give it up to 45 minutes for all of that to replicate through GoDaddy's server. Try your site.
Let me know how that goes.
Joe
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by: angusthefuzzPosted on 2006-07-16 at 15:51:03ID: 17118546
If you registered for a domain name on godaddy, it is originally not pointed anywhere. In your godaddy control panel there should be some form where you can change the nameservers. Due to security, regular people are not allowed to run nameservers on home computers. Normally, when you buy a domain name you also buy a hosting package. You can then point your new domain name to the nameservers of your hosting account. In order to point a domain name to your home computer you need to use a service called zoneedit. It is the only service of its kind. Basically, you point your domain name to zoneedits nameservers and zoneedit forwards the traffic to your static IP computer. Thus, the port forwarding probably works but your domain name is not pointed anywhere. Hope that helps.