Proper setup for home office

I have a domain (mydomain.com) and static IP's from our provider with RDNS setup properly. AEBS is providing DHCP & DNS and I have a few questions. Config is this (net)--(modem)--(aebs)--(macmini)
1. What should the settings in the AEBS be? Should it be providing DNS servers of our ISP to clients or should it be handing out the IP of the MacMini.
2. We have a domain with RDNS but when setting up the macmini what should I put in the hostname field so that all external services work well. In 10.5 this was very very key you did it right. So would I put apple.mydomain.com?
Thanks,
DM

Kia ora DD,
What services is SLServer running, it will be your OD master I assume, and DNS, and I assume DHCP is handled by your AEBS?
I think the dns references should point to the ip address of your server, so that the clients are 'sent' to it first, then if the resource they are looking for is not there then the server will send that request on elsewhere, usually to the router, which is looking 'outside', and sends the request out into the 'net'.
As far as the DNS entry of the server is concerned the relationship between the FQDN (the base domain name for example 'sausage.com') and the hostname (computer name for example 'beef') still exists, but it is not as tricky. The computer name is used in some services locally, on the internal network and may be found for some services at beef.local, some services need the FQDN, but most need the hostname; beef.sausages.com.
As far as the setup is concerned I put my FQDN in the first box and the computer name in the second, and if you look at the DNS services in Server Admin or info pane in serverpreferences, they should show the consequences of how you named you box etc at the initial setup.
As far as your ISP is concerned they should be sending any external request to your static ip, and that will be handled by your server as long as the mail exchanger records at you ISP are the same as the mail exchange record in the DNS services pane of Server admin.
I would recommend reinstalling multiple times until you have it is as you want it,
I think!

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