How to forward outside request to my web or mail server?

Question

HI I want access my office web or mail server from outside from the office. I have d link GLB-502T router and win 2003 server as mail server and web server. so how can i forward outeside request to my server e.g. - i am at my branch office and through internet i m sending mail to [e-mail] or how can see web page of my web server? plz help me

Answer 1

Set your router to forward port 80 to the web server's internal IP. Then it is a matter of setting up an A record in DNS, say office.myoffice.com, to point to the router's external IP.

For mail you can do a similar thing with MX records. Assuming you already have email at myoffice.com, you could set up office.myoffice.com to handle mail.

Or, if this is only for internal use, you could set up a VPN and make an encrypted tunnel to the internal network. You could use OpenVPN for this purpose.

Answer 2

Port Forwarding is a provider that adjust into created to permit your internet IP handle to be forwarded to your pc, yet in simple terms on particular ports. once you're on a community you have gotten a close-by IP handle. regrettably with a close-by IP handle web hosting internet based content cloth is extremely complicated. hence you forward the ports which you truly choose...to offer your self an internet IP handle on a particular port.