behind a router

[lorderror]

Hi.

I am setting up my eggdrop on my linuxbox behind a router. It's a win2k machine and i use dns2go & own my own domain. I run my own DNS server.

I want my host to be something like this: me@alias.mydomain.com.

Network info:
Internal network: 192.168.0.0/24
Router/DNS Server: 192.168.0.1
Linuxbox: 192.168.0.2
External ip: i get dynamicly from my isp (i hardly ever reconnect so its the same all the time)


How do i configure the bot to use a alias or vhost (what ever you wish to call it) on my server?

Tried setting this, but did not work:

my-ip (ip from isp)
my-hostname: alias.mydoman.com

Thanks.

[ppslim]

This is just not possible, unless you have the following things.

You will need a static IP address, and not one dynamicaly assigned by the ISP.

While the above is not entirly true, there is just too much work involved by both yourself,a nd the ISP, every time the IP changes to make this work.

You will also need access to set the reverse DNS of the IP. This can be doen using a DNS server, however, the owner of the IP (the ISP in this case), would need to propergate DNS requests for that IP, to your DNS server.

IE, if we have the follwing IP and hostname
192.168.1.15
my.dom.ain

Doing a "nslookup 192.168.1.15" should produce "my.dom.ain"
Doing a "nslookup my.dom.ain" should produce "192.168.1.15"

Unless this is possible, it will not work.

Note: In the example above, I have used reserved 192 addresses. It would need to be your public IP (in this case, the one you are assigned by the ISP) that wold need the DNS translation.