Need Howto: Getting my DNS Server to be a "real world" Name Server to host websites.

Hello, this is my first posting in Google Groups, I am not sure that
this group is the best fit for my question but it was the closest I
could find.

I am trying to host my own domain (www.ecsmaine.com) and bring in 2
more right off then more later. I tried following a tutorial online
but it wasn't too clear. (
http://www.iisanswers.com/articles/dns_for_iis.htm ).

I have Windows 2003 Server SP1 standard edition. I have a static IP
from my isp, and my router with port forwarding setup for ports 25, 53,
80, 110, 143. (SMTP, DNS, WEB, POP3, IMAP). I have IIS 6 setup with
some websites, I removed the default site and went to the hosts setup.
I entered any available ip address, port 80, and ecsmaine.com as the
host name. I have hMailserver with ASSP and CLAMWin setup for my mail.
I have my domain hosted with www.ns.com right now and I have chaged
the MX record to point to my server, it is working good along with
another domain I have.

I am stuck, when I go to update the auth records on my domain
(www.ecsmaine.com) from ns2.ns.com to ns.ecsmaine.com I fail because
the site trys to resolve the ip address itself and cannot find my
static ip address.

I am not sure if I setup my dns server correctly. I created a new zone
and called it ecsmaine.com, then added host(a) records for mail, www,
webmail, ns. All host(a) records are pointing to my static ip address
(real world static ip from my ISP). I created a MX record that points
to mail.ecsmaine.com. the SOA, and Name Server was created for me when
I added the domain to DNS. I updated my SOA record to point to
ns.ecsmaine.com and changed hostmaster. to administrator.ecsmaine.com.

In my SOA properties, on the Name Servers tab I have a record that says
web-server.ecsmaine.com, I added 2 ip's here 1 being my real world,
then the other my internal lan address. I am not sure what I am
supposed to have here, web-server is my computer name for the lan.



If any body knows of a good tutorial I usually can figure stuff out,
but getting a name server reconized on the www has me stumped.

Thanks
Ben Parker

stylus@stylusdesigns.com

Stylus277
Tue Feb 21 13:03:21 CST 2006

One other thing I noticed, if I ping ns.ecsmaine.com it comes back as
my current host's ip address, I was thinking may be if I went to the
host, and added a host record for ns.ecsmaine.com to point to my static
ip address, waited a day or so for it to filter thought then went to my
registar and updated my auth record from ns2.ns.com to ns.ecsmaine.com
it may resolve my ip address.

Does anybody think that would help/work?

Thanks
Ben Parker