How to set ftp address to ftp.mydomain.com

Right now we access our ftp site via the external ip address assigned to our
router. How can I set this up to be accessed via ftp.mydomain.com. through
iis. Or is this a change in the router that will have to be may (via our
isp).

Thanks
Ray

John
Thu Feb 03 10:05:32 CST 2005

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:01:39 -0600, "Ray Joslyn" <ray@work> wrote:

>Right now we access our ftp site via the external ip address assigned to our
>router. How can I set this up to be accessed via ftp.mydomain.com. through
>iis. Or is this a change in the router that will have to be may (via our
>isp).
>
>Thanks
>Ray

You need to add a line to your DNS and in IIS (I believe) I don't use
IIS FTP

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Kristofer
Thu Feb 03 12:11:09 CST 2005

Hi Ray,

ftp.mydomain.com is a dns name. This name must be able to be translated to
the IP of your machine, and this is done by DNS. So what you need to do is
add an A record in the DNS server for mydomain.com. Tell the people
administrating the DNS server for your domain what you want to do, and
they will do it for you.

You should not have to change anything in IIS or your router
configurations.


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Ray Joslyn wrote:

> Right now we access our ftp site via the external ip address assigned to
our
> router. How can I set this up to be accessed via ftp.mydomain.com.
through
> iis. Or is this a change in the router that will have to be may (via our
> isp).
>
> Thanks
> Ray

jeff
Thu Feb 03 21:29:48 CST 2005

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:01:39 -0600, "Ray Joslyn" <ray@work> wrote:

>Right now we access our ftp site via the external ip address assigned to our
>router. How can I set this up to be accessed via ftp.mydomain.com. through
>iis. Or is this a change in the router that will have to be may (via our
>isp).

It's not IIS and it's not your router. Neither care about or know
about the host name. That's handled by DNS, where you add a host
entry (A Record) for the "ftp" host in the "mydomain.com" domain/zone
that points to the IP address of your FTP server.

Jeff