Creating a server hosting a bootable OS X to be accessible over the internet

Hello all,
I have been trying to turn my iMac 27' (3.5GHz, 32GB, late 2013 model) to a home server. The OS and all files are currently on an external drive from which I have been booting. I also have an Airport Extreme router plugged into my modem which is in bridge mode with a DHCP reservation on my router for my server, so that it assigns my iMac the same IP address all the time. I do have a domain name registered (with godaddy), and have pointed all traffic to my IP address through DNS zone configuration with my domain name registrar - or at least I think I've got it set up. I have also configured my DNS on Yosemite Server creating a name server record and machine server record. All the proper ports have been configured properly as the Airport Extreme is well integrated with Yosemite Server.
I have a couple of issues though:
1) When I turn on File Sharing (having shared the external drive), the status says "'Server' is available on your local network" - and I am unable to access it from outside my local network. I'd like to be able to mount this drive from any network (or afp? smb? ftp?)
2) Once that's well established and I am able to access my drive from anywhere - I'd like to be able to boot from that network drive and thus run my OS at home from anywhere. From what I understand, there is a way to do that by writing a command stored as LaunchAgent or something which I am not very familiar with.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks

I think you may have a misconception about IP addresses.
When you make your Aiport Extrem or the modem issue a (fixed) DHCP address to your server it will issue a PRIVATE address. This address cannot be reached from the internet, no matter what you enter into the DNS config. You must have a static PUBLIC address assigned to your router and then forward all the traffic that arrives at that public address to your private server.
Could this be your problem?
---markus---

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