How To Configure a Domain Using Dynamic DNS

You can host numerous domains on the IT-100 and provide website, email, and a variety of other services for each domain. While creating a domain involves configuring numerous services on the IT-100, the Add a Domain Wizard walks you through the steps in a straightforward and easy-to-follow manner. The most common method of providing DNS name resolution services is to have your IT-100 provide DNS. This usually requires that you have a static or unchanging IP Address assigned to the WAN port of your IT-100. Sometimes, an ISP will only assign a dynamic IP Address to your WAN port which means that your public IP address will periodically change. While hosting a domain usually requires associating the domain name to a fixed IP Address so that your domain can be more easily located, it is possible to use Dynamic DNS services so that for example, a website you host can be located by domain name, even when the IP Address periodically changes.

 

EmergeCore in partnership with TZO.com, makes a dynamic DNS service available to you which will allow your IT-100 to host a domain name using a dynamic IP address. You must have an account with TZO to either access a free trial of their dynamic DNS service or to purchase. To create a TZO account:

 

How To Create a TZO Account and Access Dynamic DNS Services

 

  1. On a computer connected to the Internet, open a web browser and in the address field, type the URL: http://www.emergecore.tzo.com

  • The TZO portal page will appear

  1. To try the TZO dynamic DNS service for free for 30 days, click the Try TZO free link

  • or

  1. To purchase TZO dynamic DNS services, click the Order TZO link

  • Note: this HOW TO lesson will continue using the example of using TZO's free 30-day trial

  1. Type your domain name in the Your trial domain name field

  • Note: you do not have to purchase a registered domain name in this situation. The default domain name is MyITinABOX.com. Put whatever word you wish in the field just before the default domain name to create a unique name for your use such as the example: James.MyITinABox.com

  1. Type your email address in the Your Email Address field

  2. Click the Create my free trial domain name button

  • The page refreshes and you are taken to a page that confirms that your trial key was emailed to the email address you provided on the previous page

  1. Close your web browser

  2. Open your email client. You should have received an email from TZO.COM Trial Signup entitled: Here's your key for your free trial

  3. Open the email

  4. Record the trial key string, the email address you used and the complete domain name you created. You will need that information when you configure your new domain to use dynamic DNS

 

How to Create a Domain Using TZO.com Dynamic DNS

 

  1. Go to CoreVista Web

  2. Click Domains on the left-hand sidebar menu

  • The main Domains page opens

  • Note: any domains already created on the IT-100 will appear in separate folders under the Domains folder in the menu

  1. Click ADD in the Domains box

  • The Add a Domain Wizard launches

  1. Type the domain name you created when you created an account at TZO.com in the Domain Name field

  • An example of the way you need to word the domain name is domain.MyITinABox.com

  • Note: When using a TZO.com domain name, it is not necessary for you to first register it with an ICANN accredited domain name registrar

  1. Click ADD

  • The DNS Wizard for your new domain launches

  1. Click NEXT

  • You are provided with four choices as far as how to provide DNS services for your new domain

  • Note: to see the other choices for providing DNS services for a domain, go to the  HOW TOs: Domains section of the EmergeCore support page

  1. Click the I have a dynamic IP address, and would like to use Dynamic DNS for this domain radio button

  2. Click NEXT

  • The Dynamic DNS Setup for your domain.MyITinABox.com page appears

  1. Type the email address you used when signing up at TZO.com in the TZO Email field

  2. Type the trial key you received in the email from TZO.com in the TZO Key field

  • Note: if you have your email open on the same computer you are using to configure this domain, you can copy the key from that email and paste it in the TZO Key field

  1. Click NEXT

  • You are taken to the main Domains page for the new domain and the dynamic DNS service is active and running for this domain on the IT-100. There are no users in the User Summary box because they have not yet been created. See the HOW TOs: User section for information about how to create users


    
     
   
   
       

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