If you want to start your own hosting service using osx server, or you just want to point your domain to your local mac machine.. here’s how to do it.
First to go to server admin and select DNS.
Then Set Up DNS so that they look like this screenshot.
(The ones that are not selected are optional)
What you’re doing is setting up your own DNS servers so that your domain can look up them and resolve them to your IP. And the mail one is just in case if you’re setting up a mail server too. In this screenshot 24.248.215.147 is the public (disable your firewall , or open port 53) internet address and 192.168.77.7 is the local network address, jasonstrack.net is your domain. the jasonstrack.net.jasonstrack.net is so that you can access http://jasonstrack.net and you can later on add a cname record for the www.Now that you have your DNS name server ns1 and ns2.yourdomain.com you have to add those nameservers as hosts in your godaddy account.
Set up NS1 and NS2 to your ip.
And after you save your settings set your Nameservers for your domain to
| Name Servers:(Last Update 6/19/2008)NS1.YOURDOMAIN.NET NS2.YOURDOMAIN.NET |
And after, wait a couple of hours (or minutes) and then your domain.com should point to your mac osx server!
It worked for me.
And if your domain doesn’t resolve try searching google for nslookup and dns lookup and check if you have missed something in your dns settings.
So good.