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Web :: General :: Need help in house hosting for a small business
By: thepreacher Great Britain  Date: 27/03/2009 00:33:02  English  Points: 20 Status: Answered
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So here is my story. This company has BT as their ISP and have a bunch of domains registred with a company called Telivo. They will like to host their own site so we ordered 5 static addresses from BT (we ordered 5 because they were going to charge us the same for 1).Anyway bt send us the following email excerpt

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR SERVICE - PLEASE KEEP SAFE Your product is: BT Business Total Broadband Option 2 Network login username (for the first time your router/Hub connects to broadband): xxxxxxxx@hg70.btclick.com Network login password (for the first time your router/Hub connects to broadband): xxxxxxx You've ordered a range of Static IP addresses, which contains 8 addresses from 81.142.45.xxx to 81.142.45.xxx. Three of these are reserved: * network address: 81.142.45.xxx * router/Hub address: 81.142.45.xxx * subnet mask address if you have 5 Static IP addresses: 255.255.255.xxx * subnet mask address if you have 13 Static IP addresses: 255.255.255.240


Assuming we will like to host a site called www.foo.com, what changes do we have to make and were do we have to make them.

To show what i have done so far. I have given the server a static LAN address ie 192.168.1.100. I am able to connect to the internet from the server. I have also changed the IP address of the A record for the domain at Telivo

DNS Management A Records (A) Please note: adding an entry with the same hostname as an existing entry will not replace the existing entry. This will need to be removed seperately or updated using Update. Hostname IP Address www.foo.com 81.142.45.xxx .foo.com



However when i enter the domain name in a browser nothing happens.

Please help and be as detiled as possible. For example the router already has an IP address so what do i do with

* router/Hub address: 81.142.45.xxx

thanks.
By: VGR Date: 27/03/2009 17:53:35 English  Type : Comment
okay, I'll assume your touter also does the ethernet hub ; if not, the principles are the same.

Your routeur, being a router, has two IP@ : one on your LAN (192.*), one external called the "public one". If you've 5 static addresses, he should answer to them all.

Then, the router has to be configured to ROUTE (hence the name) HTTP requests in and out ; in : for the known range 81.142.45.* that you have, he has to forward, on certain open ports (80 & 443 are the minimum to open, 23, 21, 25 and 110 are rather common too - see doc on HTTP port numbers if need be - ) to given hosts on your internal LAN. Say, a webserver, a mail server etc

Then, he has to route things OUT and this is simplier : you've nothing to configure except the rules for the allowed ports (protects you from an internal infection, for instance) and the gateway address on all the LAN : it has to be the router's internal IP address, usually ending in 254 so 192.168.0.254

hope this helps a bit, if you need more details then explain your problem again ;-)
By: thepreacher Date: 31/03/2009 21:01:38 English  Type : Comment
Thanks VGR as always your answer was the most helpful of all the forums i posted the question in. Its all working now thanks. Its a shame experts round table will soon be shutting down. Hope you at least remain here to help the likes of us.
By: VGR Date: 31/03/2009 23:36:50 English  Type : Answer
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