For the people that do self hosting (from home for example) of website, how do you actually link a domain name bought online and your home public IP and how do you make forward http calls back and forth between the two?

I am also curious about this.

Do you know how you would do it to an online host?

Exactly the same but you get to do port forwarding locally.

@seraphimsystems port forwarding isn't an issue, displaying for example my public IP instead of the domain name can be 🤔

@FrodoSwaggins what's the role of DNS in this intent? Can you digress?

@okstar you can't hide the IP... The domain is for you bags of mostly water who cannot remember 12 digit numbers....

@okstar if you don't know what a DNS is or does, you should stop what your doing, go find a book called "the internet for dummies" and start at chapter 1.

That's not a dig, it's just a good book series.

You need at least a basic understanding of the principles.

The Wikipedia article on DNS would suffice, any words you don't understand read that article too.

@seraphimsystems domain name system, remembered without checking. Why do I need a DNS when I would like to understand how to do the other way around, from IP to name 🤔.
Or am I missing something in the big picture?

@FrodoSwaggins auto correction error 😔

@okstar if you don't know why you need to know about it, autocorrect or not, you are jumping too far ahead.

You are doing something fairly complicated, it's ok to not know... No one's born a Dev right?

If you knew the way it worked you would know why what you're asking cannot happen.

Google it

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