Preconfiguring and setting up your server and domain name system (DNS)

…As I mentioned in an earlier movie, you're going to need…to connect to your server from the internet if you're going to…have equal using iPhones or iPads outside of your local area network…that need to connect to services that are hosted on your server.…In order to do that, you'll need to…forward ports from your router to your server.…And, in order to do that you'll need to control the router.…Now, we have an airport base station on our network so we will be…showing you how to use the airport utility to configure that on an airport.…

However, since you may be using different hardware, your mileage may vary.…Only forward what you need.…It is not generally a good idea to just forward…as many ports as possible from you router to your server.…Part of the protection of network address translation is that your server is…on an internal IP address that people can't get to from the outside world.…If you open everything and forward it all…to your server, that protection is pretty much gone.…So only forward the ports that you absolutely need, and that will of…