Apologies in advance for seeming clueless. I just want to know why something is working (naturally curious, I suppose).
So I've set up a WHS and have been very happy with it. Now that I've got the proper port forwarding working on my router (done manually, since UPnP didn't work that well) and a static IP set for my server, I've been able to remotely connect using the username.homeserver.com website.
Not satisfied with just that, I decided to set up Dynamic DNS through DynDNS. Set up the account and entered the details in my router (it has a separate menu for configuring DynDNS, making it very easy). Connected to my server the first time I tried it. Great!
But here's my question. How did the DynDNS link know to automatically direct me to my homeserver.com website? It took the IP address assigned to my router and and somehow knew that's where I wanted to go. How? I have several computers connected to the router with NAT IP addresses. How did it know that the place I wanted it to go was my WHS logon page, as opposed to trying to connect to one of the other PC's on the network?
I realize these are completely idiotic questions, and I should be happy it just works, but I really want to better understand networking. Hardware, I got down. But I want to keep on learning. Can anyone help me understand?
Thanks in advance!
Indy
So I've set up a WHS and have been very happy with it. Now that I've got the proper port forwarding working on my router (done manually, since UPnP didn't work that well) and a static IP set for my server, I've been able to remotely connect using the username.homeserver.com website.
Not satisfied with just that, I decided to set up Dynamic DNS through DynDNS. Set up the account and entered the details in my router (it has a separate menu for configuring DynDNS, making it very easy). Connected to my server the first time I tried it. Great!
But here's my question. How did the DynDNS link know to automatically direct me to my homeserver.com website? It took the IP address assigned to my router and and somehow knew that's where I wanted to go. How? I have several computers connected to the router with NAT IP addresses. How did it know that the place I wanted it to go was my WHS logon page, as opposed to trying to connect to one of the other PC's on the network?
I realize these are completely idiotic questions, and I should be happy it just works, but I really want to better understand networking. Hardware, I got down. But I want to keep on learning. Can anyone help me understand?
Thanks in advance!
Indy