From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 13:21:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9911537B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FEC44001 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:21:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by out005.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030626202148.ZMQF20032.out005.verizon.net@mac.com>; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:21:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3EFB55DA.50609@mac.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:21:46 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John DeStefano References: <20030626195715.94612.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030626195715.94612.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:21:48 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:21:50 -0000 John DeStefano wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: >> [ ...hitting return every 76 characters would be nice... ] > Interesting... I just double-checked my Yahoo! outbound message settings, > and confirmed message width is fixed at 72 chars. Never had a complaint > before. If you've any ideas PLMK. Regardless, I apologize for the > on-screen abuse. No harm done. The best idea would be to not use a web-based mail client, but a real MUA like Pine, Netscape/Mozilla, etc. >> Um. I consulted my magic eight ball, and it translated your question as: > > Was it that obscure? If so, sorry again. Hmm...your question wasn't obscure, but there were a lot of relevant details that had to be inferred. ] I'm trying to host a web site on a FreeBSD machine. My registrar, godaddy, ] offers a redirect service which sends requests from "www.mydomain.com" to your ] FreeBSD machine, which possibly has a dynamic IP? > Yes. I have registered a domain name at godaddy.com, and linked it to the > dynamic IP address that my ISP has assigned to me. On my internal network, > behind a router, I have a FBSD machine, on which I'm running apache. > In order to make all this work with a non-well-known web server port, I had > to use godaddy.com's "Domain forwarding" feature to point to the IP:port > combination. If you subscribe to a dynamic DNS service, such as dyndns.org, you can link to that name rather than the raw IP address, and that name will show up in the browser as you've asked-- assuming you configure apache with that name, as well. >> Also, are you running apache on port 80, or is that being blocked by your ISP? > > My ISP blocks and monitors well-known server ports such as 80 and 21. I'm > running well out of the well-known range at 10101. There's no way to avoid the port number in the URL, then. Consider switching to a provider that lets you host local services... -- -Chuck