Ubuntu Server

Is your Server have a fixed IP from your service provider? If not, you can register to some dynamic DNS service.
You need to do nothing with the dns in your server to make it visible to Internet, you need to do a lot on other areas (depending on what services do you want to offer) but not for the Internet visibility.
The registration of a domain (this makes your service visible as myserver.com) take a couple of days.
The dns service (the one you signed up with namecheap) is a necessary service to be visible because this service makes the relation between your domain name (myserver.com) with the IP address that your server have.
These data must be replicated on as many dns servers on the Internet, dns replication takes from some hours to a couple of days to be replicated.
Your server is going to be visible if the IP registered at the dns service is the IP that your server have at any time.
Hope this helps, let me know.

Thank you for replying Ariel,i have setup my network to use static ip address,if you would,could you try to go to www.smousetraining.biz and let me know if anything shows up at all,i have changed the forwarders on namecheap to point to my server, so i hope all this works out.

Thank You Once again

Hi paccco,
When you did it, right now? If yes, you must wait a couple of hours to be effective (the replication delay) and if you are at another country than me, even a day or two to be visible all over the Internet.
You must configure your server to have a "public and static (or fixed) IP address" and this kind of address are giving only by your ISP, your local network can still using automatic (or dynamic) and private IP address, if your server is connected through a firewall/router shared with your internal network, you must put the server at the DMZ to be outside the firewall/router and be visible.
Actually, are you using 192.168.254.4 as your server's Internet address?
Hope this helps, let me know.

yes,this is what i set my server and what i set namecheap forwarding url to,im in the US,thanks for your help.

pacco, this is a bad setting, it will never be accessible to anybody unless you change your server's IP for a public and fixed IP.
Please read the following article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
Hope this helps, let me know.
If this solve your question, please mark the question as solved and the answer that made it.

ok i will do that,im going to have them reset the dns for me,and thank you for all your help
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Your question #58577 on bind in ubuntu changed:
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Ariel Cabral proposed the following answer:
pacco, this is a bad setting, it will never be accessible to anybody unless you change your server's IP for a public and fixed IP.
Please read the following article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
Hope this helps, let me know.
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