Why?

Bob Norris · - Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 39

Why is it that I can see my website only locally on my network? I cant see it through the domain name.
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goose · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:15 am Post subject:

many reasons.
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olly86 · - Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 993 Location: Wiltshire, UK

do you run a firewall? (allow abyss Internet access)
do you run the XP firewall? (if yes disable it or change some config settings)
do you have a router? (if yes setup port forwarding)
is your IP address static or changing)

you can't connect to your sever @ 127.0.0.1 away from the computer where abyss is running.

get your external ip address from: http://www.aprelium.com/ip

more info would help us, to help you!!
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d-cat · - Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Posts: 12

Could also be a DNS issue... to the rest of the world, say "mydomain.com" may be 123.456.789.101, but on your local network, would more likely be something like 192.168.0.100. When you try to access "mydomain.com" from behind the network, it will by default give back the 123.456.789.101, which your computer won't be able to find.

There's two ways of going about solving this... there's your "hosts" file (MS users see Hosts.sam), or the way I did it, to run a DNS caching server (e.g. BIND PE or Treewalk) on your network and override "mydomain.com" to point to 192.168.0.100 (or however it applies to your system).

I liked the DNS cache because not only did it solve my local DNS server issue, but it sped up my browsing experience over all, since you don't have to wait for your ISP's server to respond every time your browser decides it's going to do multiple redundant DNS lookups.

Happy trails!
»D-cat.