Turning Powermac 8600 into a full webserver

Hi,
I have a PowerMac 8600 running Mac OS 9.1 and I want to turn it into a web server so I can host my website on it and people will be able to connect to my website via the 8600. NOTE (I dont want this just for my network I want it for the whole world to be able to see my site not just my network). How do I do this? Thanks

The DHCP lease period is usually set for a day or two by default. If you were to turn them all off, not use them for two days, then turn them back on in a different order, they would get different addresses. You can adjust the lease period to a shorter time if you want to mix them up a little.
DHCP makes it simple to set up networks up to hundreds of computers without having to write down and remember all those address assignments -- with no risk of duplication of addresses. The fact that it is simple and stable in your environment tells you it is working great.
The next thing to think about is the Subnet Mask. It is four 8-bit bytes with a 1-bit for every address bit that should be considered. 255 is 8 1-bits ON. A Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.0 says that any computer that has the same first three bytes of its IP address the same as mine is on my Subnet, and can talk to me.
Based on the addresses you have for your computers, your router probably responds to an address like 192.168.2.1, which is on the same Subnet as all the computers. So anything going to the Internet is sent to that router address to get its address changed and be forwarded on to the Internet.
This address change (some describe it as putting the packet into a bigger envelope) is called Network Address Translation. The router supplies its Upstream IP address (not the same as the 192.168.2.xxx as your computers see) as the source on these bigger envelopes being forwarded out the WAN connection, and responses come back to the router's Upstream IP address. This Upstream IP address is not on the subnet with your local computers, so a router is required to send packets to it.
Depending on how your ISP has implemented Upstream addresses, this address may be different tomorrow, and may or may not be Internet-visible.

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