A client or a mail server looking to connect to your SBS will ask for it by name and the PublicĭNS servers will direct them to the IP address associated with that name. the various DNS hosts have many different interfaces for creating these records, but the end result is all the same. Once the DNS host has been setup with your information you need to setup several 'DNS records' These are commonly knows as A records which point your RWW name to your public IP, and MX records (mail exchange) which point your public email Often the DNS host is the same as the registrar, but it does not have to be. Then you arrange for a public DNS (domain name server) to keep track of the relationship between the name and the IP's of the actual _public_ IP address that As you know there are hundreds of places to do this. This gets a bit complicated if you have never dealt with it before so bear with me and feel free to ask any follow up questions.įirst you purchase a domain name. So can anyone help me with finding this nameserver? To update the A recordsįor the domain name you can login to your new servers control panel and the A record for the domain name. ' If you want the domain name 'ournewdomainname.xxx' to resolve from your new server than you will have to provide its nameserver to us so that we can update it for the domain name. I asked if they could just set up an 'A' record to direct the site to our fixed

They say they need that to put in to the configuration of the web site.

Now my registrar wants to know the nameserver of my SBS server and I cannot find it anywhere. I then needed to and indeed manually set up the router to allow the ports through to the server as requred. I got to the point where it asked me for my domain name and so I purchased a new one from our current domain registrar. I am setting up an SBS 2011 server for remote web workplace, I followed the wizard through the steps as necessary.

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