Why is my website pointing to my local lan ip address
 

Got Redhat 9 installed on Dell Poweredge 1600. Was working as www.jmzcons.com but can now only see my website as http://192.168.0.103. Plase help
James

why on earth are you running redhat 9?? It's ancient.

What do you mean by only see? What are you doing? what happens if you use the domain name? what network architecture are you runnign this under?

I think you are talking about apache webserver. I think you created a web page and you want to access it via www.jmzcons.com instead of IP. I think it may be a DNS problem.

Maybe so. But I am not sure how DNS is link to the ip address

I am running redhat 9 because it works for me and my website www.jmzcons.com works well once before but now
I can only see my website if I call up 192.168.0.103 instead

can you provide some new information as requested?

when I call up my website at 192.168.0.103, it will response with my website. But not with www.jmzcons.com
DNS report for jmzcons.com shows no NS for record A. Not sure what else to do

When I call the domain name www.jmzcons.com
I get a reply back that the connection is timed out

I have a Dlink Dir 655 router connected to a bunch of pc's and one of them being a dell with the linux redhat 9
and use dhcp.

Your website isn't "pointing" anywhere. Your webserver is listening for any incoming connections on port 80, and responding with your web page. The reason you can't access it through the domain is DNS. When anybody types in a domain, DNS tells the computer the actual location of that website (the IP address of the computer hosting it). Your DNS for jmzcons.com isn't configured properly, so when somebody types in that domain, they are not being directed to the location where that website actually sits (your Dell box).

1-point the DNS for your domain to your router's public IP address
2-set your Dell up with a static IP on your local network
3-forward port 80 to your Dell's IP in your router config

Hi,

when you will set DNS for your domain (the public IP address you have your router connected)
then set the PORT FORWARDING to your server IP 192.168.0.103

setup like here

In my router config, followed instructions as per your setup attached in Advanced( Virtual Host) to 192.168.0.103 using public 80 and private 80
saved and still the same

You still need to point your domain to your network's public IP address.

It sounds like you've only done the third of the three steps I listed. Two more to go.

well the domain resolves so I'd guess that OP doesn't appreciate that he's on a dynamic IP?

I see it does not !