[mythtv-users] locating my MythTV box from the internet using a domain name

[Ray Olszewski]

At 04:42 PM 2/19/2004 -0800, Steve Dorsey wrote:
>thanks for your answers!
>
>   I'd like to give the MythTV box it's own domain (mythtv.domainname.com) 
> so that it's easier to find on the web. I have a static IP I can assign to it.
>
>   Is this possible? Is it a job for my ISP, and not MythTV?

Possible? Why not? Assuming you mean you have a public (routable) IP 
address available.

A good idea? Can't say what is good for you, but remember that you'll have 
to consider security more carefully if your Myth host makes any of its 
services available over the Internet.

As to whose job it is ... it certainly is not a job for MythTV itself, 
since Myth doesn't do DNS. Who is authoritative for "mydomainname.com" 
(that is, whatever real domain name you intend to use)?

If your ISP is, then it has to update its DNS records to associate this FQN 
with your available IP address.

If you run your own authoritative server, then you update your own DNS 
records.

If whatever registrar you use (or someone else) runs the authoritative 
server for you, it will have a procedure to let you update the records.

Either way, this is really just a standard DNS question, with nothing 
specific to Myth about it.