[acidic]

Hey everyone,

I have a few problems here that I am going to roll into one post.

1) I have a Snow iMac running Mac OS X Server, a PC running XP, and a hub. I need to figure out some way to setup a network (and I am someone who has never done networking before in my life) so that all server requests (web, mail, QTSS, etc) will be sent to the iMac, but will still allow the PC to function using the internet. The PC has multiple NICS, but the iMac only has one. These computers have to share an ADSL connection (bridged DHCP).

2) I have a top level domain (phklife.ca) and I use zoneedit.com for my DNS. The program that I found for OS X to auto update the zone at zoneedit I do believe is called MacDynDNS, but I am not totally sure about that. It is listed on the page but I am sort of in a hurry so I can't check right now. Anyway, the program was not updating the zone for my domain, annd I double checked all the login info and such.

If you can help me out with any or all of these problems it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[deharlow]

It sounds like you do not have a static IP on your DSL connection and that you have to login to get your Internet connection up and running via your DSL. Anyway to make life a lot simpler for yourself I would invest in a dedicated DSL hardware router, this can be found fairly cheap now a days and many have integration with a dynamic DNS service (my Netgear RP114 one integrates with dyndns.org). Once you have a hardware router you can set up specific ports to forward to the Mac or just have all ports forward to the Mac quite easily. Having a hardware router also means that you do not have to worry about the PC being on to forward requests to the Mac.

Daniel

[acidic]

Thanks for the reply.

I do have one more question though. Do you know if it will integrate with zoneedit? I like zoneedit because they do offer frree top-level domain DNS services, while dyndns.org does not. Also, how muh did you pay for your router? Just trying to figure out a good price to look for.

Thanks