Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:21:46 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: John DeStefano <deesto@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name Message-ID: <3EFB55DA.50609@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030626195715.94612.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030626195715.94612.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com>
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John DeStefano wrote: > Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> 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
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