Zone Files help please??

I have a broadband account with Zen, and have 3 accounts hosted with
http://www.gradwell.com/

I have set up my own ftp server on my home machine. People can access it
using the IP address 82.70.254.222 (I think...), but I want to resolve
it (I think that's the right word) to the host name ftp.chriswilson.tv ,
chriswilson.tv being hosted with Gradwell. They don't offer any more
support for this other than what's in their Knowledge Base on their
site, which is all pretty much beyond me!

I need someone to tell me exctly what I need to do with their Zone Files
set up pages and maybe I need to do something with DNS too???

If someone is willing to help I can post up some more info as required,
such as the result of C:\ipconfig /all > C:\ipconfig.txt

and maybe a screen shot of my current Zone File settings? Is there
anything I should *NOT* post, security wise, other than passwords?

I just want to get ftp to work from ftp.chriswilson.tv, but I have been
messing for days now....

Thanks.

Decided to post link to screen shot of Zone File settings, the only one
I have added is "ftp" Thanks.

http://chriswilson.tv/zonefile.png


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Best regards,
Chris.

"Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have set up my own ftp server on my home machine. People can access it
> using the IP address 82.70.254.222 (I think...), but I want to resolve
> it (I think that's the right word) to the host name ftp.chriswilson.tv ,
> chriswilson.tv being hosted with Gradwell.

Other way around: you want ftp.chriswilson.tv to resolve to 82.70.254.222
(or whatever).

Looks like you've got it working to me. I assume the target is a static IP
address.

Alex

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
says...
> "Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed) ...
> > I have set up my own ftp server on my home machine. People can access it
> > using the IP address 82.70.254.222 (I think...), but I want to resolve
> > it (I think that's the right word) to the host name ftp.chriswilson.tv ,
> > chriswilson.tv being hosted with Gradwell.
>
> Other way around: you want ftp.chriswilson.tv to resolve to 82.70.254.222
> (or whatever).
>
> Looks like you've got it working to me. I assume the target is a static IP
> address.
>
> Alex


Yes, I think it's working now, I had CNAME instead of A in the record.
Target address is static, so that should be OK.

Anonymous users are limited to /home and its sub directories, but if I
put a link to

ftp://ftp.chriswilson.tv/home/argo.jpg

it doesn't work, yet argo.jpg is in the /home directory

ftp://ftp.chriswilson.tv/argo.jpg does work

Why's that then, please?

Also, if I try and reach my ftp server from the machine it's running on
by going into Mozilla and typing

ftp://ftp.chriswilson.tv

I get logged into my router management screen. Is that normal? It's a
Netgear DG834 none wireless.

Thanks for your help.




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Best regards,
Chris.

"Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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[snip]
> Anonymous users are limited to /home and its sub directories, but if I
> put a link to
>
> ftp://ftp.chriswilson.tv/home/argo.jpg
>
> it doesn't work, yet argo.jpg is in the /home directory
>
> ftp://ftp.chriswilson.tv/argo.jpg does work
>
> Why's that then, please?

Something to do with the FTP server configuration - see the documentation.
At a guess, whatever limits anonymous users also sets the root directory to
the same.

> Also, if I try and reach my ftp server from the machine it's running on
> by going into Mozilla and typing
>
> ftp://ftp.chriswilson.tv
>
> I get logged into my router management screen. Is that normal? It's a
> Netgear DG834 none wireless.

No, it's not normal - if you are using port forwarding, normal would be
failure to connect (timeout or connection refused). However, the underlying
cause is almost certainly the same: port forwarding only operates on packets
that come from "outside". Either use a local name/address for access from
local machines, or arrange for local machines to resolve ftp.chriswilson.tv
to the local address. For a small number of machines, the easiest way to
achieve the latter is to add entries in each machine's "hosts" file.

Alex

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says...
> "Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed) ...
> [snip]
> > Anonymous users are limited to /home and its sub directories, but if I
> > put a link to
> >
> > ftp://ftp.chriswilson.tv/home/argo.jpg
> >
> > it doesn't work, yet argo.jpg is in the /home directory
> >
> > ftp://ftp.chriswilson.tv/argo.jpg does work
> >
> > Why's that then, please?
>
> Something to do with the FTP server configuration - see the documentation.
> At a guess, whatever limits anonymous users also sets the root directory to
> the same.
>
> > Also, if I try and reach my ftp server from the machine it's running on
> > by going into Mozilla and typing
> >
> > ftp://ftp.chriswilson.tv
> >
> > I get logged into my router management screen. Is that normal? It's a
> > Netgear DG834 none wireless.
>
> No, it's not normal - if you are using port forwarding, normal would be
> failure to connect (timeout or connection refused). However, the underlying
> cause is almost certainly the same: port forwarding only operates on packets
> that come from "outside". Either use a local name/address for access from
> local machines, or arrange for local machines to resolve ftp.chriswilson.tv
> to the local address. For a small number of machines, the easiest way to
> achieve the latter is to add entries in each machine's "hosts" file.
>
> Alex


Thanks again Alex. If I do a C:\ipconfig /all what part of the result do
I use in the hosts file please? I assume I'll be doing something like

82.70.254.*** ftp.chriswilson.tv

Not sure what part of the ipconfig info to put as the numeric address
though. Cheers.
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Best regards,
Chris.

"Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In article <p-(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
> says...
[snip]
> > Either use a local name/address for access from local machines, or
> > arrange for local machines to resolve ftp.chriswilson.tv to the local
> > address. For a small number of machines, the easiest way to achieve the
> > latter is to add entries in each machine's "hosts" file.
>
> Thanks again Alex. If I do a C:\ipconfig /all what part of the result do
> I use in the hosts file please? I assume I'll be doing something like
>
> 82.70.254.*** ftp.chriswilson.tv

If you are using NAT, I'd expect it to be more like:

192.168.0.123 ftp.chriswilson.tv

In any case, you want the IP address of the machine running the server.
Ipconfig will tell you this without the /all switch.

Alex

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> If you are using NAT, I'd expect it to be more like:
>
> 192.168.0.123 ftp.chriswilson.tv
>
> In any case, you want the IP address of the machine running the server.
> Ipconfig will tell you this without the /all switch.
>
> Alex


Thanks for your patience Alex, working fine now, much appreciated!

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Best regards,
Chris.