I own a Minecraft server but I want the address to be - mc.mangazing.com instead of using the IP - 198.12.116.120
How would I do this in IIS 8.0? As I'm using a windows host.
Thanks.
Added (1). I don't have the server at my house, the IP will never change.
You would need to subscribe to a PUBLIC static IP address with yoru ISP. Otherwise your existing IP address is going to change at intervals and the machine will become unavailable. They charge extra for that. They mostly also want you to subscribe to a business broadband account That costs 4 to 5 times the cost of a home account. You then register the domain name you want. Set the domain registrar's A, CNAME and PTR addresses to point to your public IP address. You need to forward the appropriate ports through the router to a PRIVATE IP address on your machine as it will also need you to set up a private DNS server on your network to point to the server from your home. Otherwise you would need to use its' IP address forever.
The question is very critical here.
First, you need to register that domain name from a domain registrar like godaddy. Then you need to edit the domain A record to point to your server IP address. There's about several hours propagation.
Whoever is hosting the server should be able to do DNS for it, if you are the person who registered mangazing.com. You would need to have your registrar point to the hosting service's name server for authoritative DNS.
Minecraft (game) has absolutely nothing at all to do with IIS (web server). Minecraft does not care what name resolves to it. Whether IIS needs configuration for the name depends upon whether you have your own server or whether it is a virtual host shared with other virtual hosts on the same server.