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Originally Posted by sxolism  Hi,
So, my question is how to properly set up my Airport Extreme base station properly so that it has these properties of static ip and DNS record.
Brian |
There are a couple of ways to do that.
One is to link the MAC address to an IP-number. This tells the router to provide the same ip-number to that MAC address which is the equivalent of a static address.
What i use myself is a real static address by picking an ip-number outside the range distributed by the router. So if the router makes numbers like 192.168.1.100 to 199, pick e.g. 192.168.1.240. This is a valid address with the correct setup (for a netmask of 255.255.255.0).
The DNS address to fill in in the server is the ip-number of the router. All trafic for the server should be relayed to the server by forwarding it to 192.168.1.240.
Your provider will not be concerned with static ip-numbers behind the router, but will be with numbers BEFORE the router. They do not always provide a static number and you should use someting like dyndns to find your ip-number when surfing the net.
Good luck, Kees