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I own my own domain. I'd like to setup custom dyndns to access my home network remotely. Since my domain currently points to my website, I thought the best alternative would be to create a subdomain (server.mydomain.com) and have that point to my custom dns service. What I'm uncleaer about is what I need to update on the records of my domain. I read that the nameservers cannot point to nameservers other than the custom dns, so it was my understanding that creating a new A Host would solve this. Is this correct? Can I create a subdomain and have that point to the custom dns and then be able to access my home network remotely, without affecting the configuration and where http://mydomain.com points to currently?

Thanks for the help - sorry if my explanation is a bit uncleaer.

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asked Mar 22 at 06:50 PM

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You can definitely host just a subdomain with Custom DNS. It requires creating NS records at your current DNS provider for the subdomain. Please read this article for more information.

http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/using_custom_dns_with_subdomains.html

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answered Mar 24 at 11:40 PM

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Note - mydomain.com is a real domain, the domains example.com, example.org and example.net exist for use in examples

Why not move your domain entirely to Custom DNS? I don't think Custom DNS can be used with a sub-domain, I think it has to be used with a second level domain (eg example.com, not myhost.example.com).

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answered Mar 22 at 07:03 PM

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Based on what you said, moving my domain to custom DNS would not solve the problem if I can't use the service on a sub-domain... is that correct?

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Based on what you said, moving my domain to custom DNS would not solve the problem if I can't use the service on a sub-domain... is that correct? – Lucas 6 hours ago

To add to this - isnt' the free dyndns service based on the user choosing their own subdomain from the available domains dyndns provides? Am I wrong to assume this same concept would apply to the custom dns service?

Thanks

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answered Mar 23 at 01:47 AM

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Custom DNS is different from the free Dynamic DNS service.

You can create sub-domains and hosts with Custom DNS, I have home.example.net for my home connection and have previously used vpn.home.example.net for convenience. I'm simply not certain (but I'm not staff so I don't know for certain) that you can use Custom DNS to host a sub-domain. The best way to be sure is to ask DynDNS directly.

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