[OT] IIS, domains, routers and host headers

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

I think that only covers a small area ;)

I need some help with my home/office network setup or some pointers to
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resources where I can research the answers:

I currently have a W2K server running on my network using a 192.168.0.x
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ress. My ADSL router is setup to route one of my public IP addresses and
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sociated domain names through to the server (but only allows port 80
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h). The website does not have anonymous access and file security on all
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es is set to Administrator and one internal domain user. AD is running. I
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ave several HA and alarm pages and OWA setup on this web server so want to
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keep it as secure as possible. I currently only have one default web site
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etup on port 80. My internal domain is set to home.local and the server
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other servers on the network appear as homeserver.home.local, cameraserver=
.home.local etc. I have a DNS server running on this server too and all
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ents point to this before my ISP DNS servers.

I=92d also like to use this server as a testing server for developing web
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ages and applications. I don=92t want this site to be accessible from the
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nternet at all (or at the very least, protected). What=92s the best way of
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doing this? Would host headers help??? (I don=92t know anything about
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.

My IIS knowledge is reasonably basic.

Ta,

Paul.