DYNDNS and My Domain Name and hosting my own apache server

creedog

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Hoping someone can tell me what I need to do here. I purchased a domain name from godaddy.com. lets call it creedog.com.

I signed up at dyndns for their free dynamic reoruting service. My linksys router supports this. There I was given a hostname with them, lets call it creedog.dyndns.com which is propertly routing to my ip address.

Now I went to go daddy and forwarded creedog.com to creedog.dyndns.com ( which then routes to my dynamic ip). however this step does not seems to be working and when a ping creedog.com I route to godaddys dns servers.

Should this not work?

Is this not how I should do this?

Are their other options?

Am I crazy?

Please help. thanks
 

talyn00

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I don't really have alot of experience with this, but doesn't it take time for godaddy to propagate the DNS change? So you wouldn't see a change when you ping creedog.com until it the change is done propagating. After 24 hours or so you should be routed to dyndns
 

creedog

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IT does, however I did not think that this is what I am doing by forwarding one address to another.

Request hits godaddy dns and creedog.com should be forwarded to creedog.dnydns.com which routes to my ip, right?

I set this up last night, btw
 

talyn00

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Originally posted by: creedog
IT does, however I did not think that this is what I am doing by forwarding one address to another.

Request hits godaddy dns and creedog.com should be forwarded to creedog.dnydns.com which routes to my ip, right?

I set this up last night, btw

If you think the dns change has fully propagated, then its possible your comp is using a cached version, so you might wanna flush dns entries on your comp.
 

GeekDrew

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How exactly did you tell godaddy to forward your domain to creedog.dyndns.com?