At home I want to create and host my own email server and web server.
I appreciate I need to register a domain name and use a Dynamic DNS since my IP is not static (although it hasn't change in 8 years, my routers is always on).
The problem I have is getting my head around how the domain name points to my exchanger server?
My assumption is if I have a domain name of fredblogs.org and send an email to [email protected], DNS just provide the IP of the fredblogs.org (my router). From the router I just route (perhaps using port forwarding) to my email server which uses the fredsmisses to direct the email to the client? Or is there more to it than that?
If the above is sort of true, then who should I register my domain with and which DNS to use?
I appreciate I need to register a domain name and use a Dynamic DNS since my IP is not static (although it hasn't change in 8 years, my routers is always on).
The problem I have is getting my head around how the domain name points to my exchanger server?
My assumption is if I have a domain name of fredblogs.org and send an email to [email protected], DNS just provide the IP of the fredblogs.org (my router). From the router I just route (perhaps using port forwarding) to my email server which uses the fredsmisses to direct the email to the client? Or is there more to it than that?
If the above is sort of true, then who should I register my domain with and which DNS to use?