That is actually what I meant.... I know what I meant to say but I could 
not think of a better way to explain it. Heck this is confusing enough!! 
DNS, firewall permissions, port forwarding, etc, etc, etc.. Please lets 
not get into binary conversions for netmasking! I need an asprin....

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Matt Alexander wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Michael Sammartano wrote:
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>>I use ZoneEdit as my dns, and the redirect the address, ie: user types
>>www.volinaz.us, the dns server then sends the request to
>>24.251.169.204:xxxx. This is a service most dns servers should supply.
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>
>No, DNS records cannot handle port numbers.  The way it works is that
>DNS would resolve to a system that is not blocked for a particular
>port.  Then that system would be configured to forward to your
>computer on some non-standard port.
>
>So, for example, if Cox blocks port 25 then you could have DNS resolve
>to a server that is on a network that does not have port 25 blocked.
>Then the mail service on that server would forward to your computer
>runnning on port 2525.
>~M
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