Please help with domains

Hello Everyone,

Word of warning, I a smart, computer literate person, but a total
newbie when it comes to this stuff.

I'm running WindowsXP Professional and IIS 5.1. I'm getting
married in the fall and just want to set up a little web page where I
can put all kinds of stuff about the wedding. I just registered a
".net" domain name (on Yahoo!, if that's relevant) for the site. I have
a broadband connection with a static IP address. I have a router
distributing traffic to my PC, my laptop, and an Internet phone.

I set up my virtual servers for TCP on port 80 in my router to
point to my PC, and I can now see my Web page from any computer by
typing in the IP address of the router. I can set up Yahoo! to
automatically forward traffic from my domain name to that IP address,
but then users who type in my domain just see the IP, not the nice
domain name.

How do I (or can I) set up my computer so that you see
www.example.net with my content?

Also, is this the best newsgoup to post this question to or is
there a better place?


Thanks,
Dexter

P.S. Please CC my actual email address when you reply.

I have to wonder why you'd want to direct internet traffic onto your local
machine. Do you never reboot or lose power? Do you never run
processor-intensive processes that may steal cycles from visitors? If you
have a site provided with your ISP, publish your site to that server and let
them handle the access and traffic. Then update your DNS info for your
registered site to point to the address your ISP provides to you.

--

Randy Birch
MVP Visual Basic
http://vbnet.mvps.org/
Please respond only to the newsgroups so all can benefit.


"Dexter" <xImtc.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MNv_b.17316$uR1.10379@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...
: Hello Everyone,
:
: Word of warning, I a smart, computer literate person, but a total
: newbie when it comes to this stuff.
:
: I'm running WindowsXP Professional and IIS 5.1. I'm getting
: married in the fall and just want to set up a little web page where I
: can put all kinds of stuff about the wedding. I just registered a
: ".net" domain name (on Yahoo!, if that's relevant) for the site. I have
: a broadband connection with a static IP address. I have a router
: distributing traffic to my PC, my laptop, and an Internet phone.
:
: I set up my virtual servers for TCP on port 80 in my router to
: point to my PC, and I can now see my Web page from any computer by
: typing in the IP address of the router. I can set up Yahoo! to
: automatically forward traffic from my domain name to that IP address,
: but then users who type in my domain just see the IP, not the nice
: domain name.
:
: How do I (or can I) set up my computer so that you see
: www.example.net with my content?
:
: Also, is this the best newsgoup to post this question to or is
: there a better place?
:
:
: Thanks,
: Dexter
:
: P.S. Please CC my actual email address when you reply.