two questions in one

Bob Johnson fbsdlists at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 08:55:57 PDT 2005


On 9/19/05, steve lasiter <slas7713 at yahoo.com> wrote:
[...]
> My web server is up and running well and I can test
> all by going to 192.168.0.2 from any internal
> workstation, but if I try to go to www.mywebsite.com
> from any internal workstation, which maps to the
> 66.190.xxx.xxx IP directed to web server port 80 as it
> should, my attempt will time out. If I run next door

Your gateway is probably not routing traffic out of your network and
back into it.  I.E. connections from your private IP numbers to your
public IP number will not work.

> to my buddies and hit it from his PC I get there just
> fine. I can't understand this since I'm using the
> www.mywebsite.com name instead of an IP address. It
> seems the gateway should not be affecting me, right?
> How do I get around this or solve it? I don't want to
> have to go next door everytime I need to make sure my
> site is accessible from the web.

Find an anonymizing web proxy service and use it to access your own web site.

- Bob


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