SBS 2011 DNS with Dynamic IP

[AlbuquerqueCSA]

First of all... THANK YOU for just reading my post!

Here is my scenario. I have a DYNAMIC IP address ( ISP wants to charge 150.00 a month for static) SOOO... I have signed up and paid for a package with no-ip to handle my DNS info and configured the app that they provide to update with current IP address.

I have exchange and active sync working just fine. I know that they work off of the mail. and autodiscover. records. I also have a web host for hosting my website, reason being that my ISP is slow! I pointed my www A record to the correct IP and it works fine. the null record has to be pointed to my SBS server in order for the ssl certificate to validate properly for outlook and iphones etc.

So... when i go directly to mydomain.com I am taken to the RWA (Remote Web Access) login page. I need this to be a redirect to www.mydomain.com

I know that I will need a forward of somesort. But i dont know what or how to make it work within IIS 7. I tried fiddling around inside IIS to make a basic redirect scrip in HTML, however I couldn't get it to work for me. Just kept going to the RWA site... Im guessing because of a binding that needs to be changed. At some point i messed with a setting and my active sync stopped working so I had to restore the backup I had made prior to doing anything. And now its working again. ***Backups are a good thing***

Can ANYONE please point me in the right direction.
Thank you again, and have a Merry Christmas!

 

[EmpireDigitalTech]

what type of router are you using? it might be a local loopback issue?

 

[AlbuquerqueCSA]

what type of router are you using? it might be a local loopback issue?

I thought about that... but I have a sonic wall TZ200... but because I am not hosting DNS here... its not a loopback...
I know that it is going to be a forward that I have to make and it will have to take priority over the RWW site.... and that is what I don't know how to do.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I use the 5x multi name certs for SBS.
You will find that you will get your e-mail working "almost most of the time"....you will never get proper reliability with a mail server on a dynamic IP address. Many spam filters will not accept from dynamic pools.

Do yourself a favor and host your website at your ISP or DNS host or whatever webhost you partner with...don't host an http site on your SBS box..it's suicide for your server to have port 80 hanging open (remember...SBS is a domain controller...simply bad practice to rip it's pants down and expose it's bottom to the internet on port 80)

 

[AlbuquerqueCSA]

5 domain SSL

I was trying to avoid having to shell out an extra 100 bucks a year for the 5x SSL... which is why i am not simply hosting my exchange on a hosted server... I only have 3 users... so at that point I might as well just use a cloud based exchange.

blocking port 80 is not a problem, but I will not be able to point the domain.com record to my server and forward it to my host. which is what my ultimate goal is.

I know you may think i am just being cheep... and 100 bucks is not alot of money... but our budget is VERY tight as we are a non profit and I am just doing this whole progect for them out of the kindness in my heart. I peiced together an old server and a few hard drives so they would have a raid 1 array and backup.

 

[Magic Miguel]

I was trying to avoid having to shell out an extra 100 bucks a year for the 5x SSL... which is why i am not simply hosting my exchange on a hosted server... I only have 3 users... so at that point I might as well just use a cloud based exchange.

blocking port 80 is not a problem, but I will not be able to point the domain.com record to my server and forward it to my host. which is what my ultimate goal is.

I know you may think i am just being cheep... and 100 bucks is not alot of money... but our budget is VERY tight as we are a non profit and I am just doing this whole progect for them out of the kindness in my heart. I peiced together an old server and a few hard drives so they would have a raid 1 array and backup.

You just cannot reliably run a mail server on a dynamic DNS setup. You need reverse DNS to work and resolve properly. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of your mail never makes it to its intended recipients due to this issue.

 

[AlbuquerqueCSA]

smarthost

I had to setup a smarthost in exchange to ensure that All my messages were being delivered... Smarthost was the easy, secure way to make sure outbound messages were delivered.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I know you may think i am just being cheep... and 100 bucks is not alot of money... but our budget is VERY tight as we are a non profit and I am just doing this whole progect for them out of the kindness in my heart. I peiced together an old server and a few hard drives so they would have a raid 1 array and backup.

FYI you can do 3 yr UCC certs for 72 bucks a year at Godaddy...I'm sure looking around you can find cheaper.

 

[mr.d]

It's going to the wrong place because you need to set up a cname record for the non www address to point in the right direction.
But after all the other replies, hopefully you are reconsidering hosting your website on the DC

I think.

 

[marley1]

I have better luck with DNSMadeEasy

For dynamic sites.

You need the a record for remote.domain.com pointing toward the SBS box

That remote. Was configured when you run the SBS wixards