a ddns with a subdomain?

[coltonhi]

so I want to use my x10 hosting account to host myself a ddns redirect, but I don't know how to do it. I have my IP, I am pretty sure it's static but I don't want people to type in my IP... I've tried ddns.net but I forgot to reactivate and they killed my domain, but now if I try to get it back it says it already exists so... Bla. I want to use a subdomain named comp or something, to redirect to my computer's IP address. i have configured it in the router so my internal IP stays the same and I can forward ports, so now I just need to redirect that domain. DO I use dns records or something else.

 

[Dead-i]

Hi,

If your home connection has a static IP address (and never changes), you can set up a DNS record for this. From cPanel, you can go to the Advanced DNS Editor, and create a new record. "Name" is the subdomain you want to use, "Type" should be A, and "Address" is your IP address.

If your home connection has a dynamic IP address, unfortunately this is trickier, because the only way to change your domain's DNS records is to manually do it through cPanel.

Thank you,

 

[coltonhi]

thank you for the help. Just one more question. When adding the record, do I type, say, comp.test.x10.mx or would I just type comp

 

[Dead-i]

Hi,

You would type just "comp".

Thank you,