Frustrated

Wyked · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:09 pm Post subject: Frustrated

1st time setting up a webserver
Web not accessable from WAN

Running on XP pro ... XP firewall is turned off
Can view pages locally
Router ( D-Link 504) Forwarding port 8090 to local IP
ISP doesn't block any ports
Domain set up to IP forward to port 8090 with an A record
I have turned of DMZ in case this was causing a prob
I can Ping and tracert to my domain

have I forgotten any relevent info ?

any suggestions ?

TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

you cannot do an A poiting if your webserver is not on
the default port which is 80 , if you have it on 8090

do a Redirect to http://IP:8090/

Wyked · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:27 am Post subject:

ok, tried that still no good, only other thing I can think of is maybe my ISP has blocked traffic from MyDomain.com which I am trying to forward from due to all the catchall emails being forwarded by the MyDoom virus, still waiting to hear back from my ISP

Anonymoose · - Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 2192

I'd imagine if they were blocking MyDoom traffic it would only be outward requests to Microsoft.com and SCO.com they'd drop, unless they also killed SMTP, which seems doubtful - it'd take a hell of a lot of valid traffic with it...

What happens when you use just your web IP instead of trying to use your domain name ?

Is the router definitely forwarding correctly ? Do you have any other ports you have opened that are working ? e.g ftp/mail/https...

Wyked · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:34 pm Post subject:

Ok, I am making progress, My site can be viewed from my work connection if I use http:ip:port so modem is forwarding ports ok

PS. I have just been told that my site is now viewable by domain name, seem like the last change I made to forwarding took about 4 times longer to propogate than previous changes, and I have finally found and killed the prog that had stolen port 80, so just did a change to drop the port off the forwarding record, reset router to forward port 80 and now have to wait for the latest change to propogate DOH !!!!!

And my ISP still hasn't gotten back to me, even though thats not critical now.

Anonymoose · - Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 2192

If you need to track down what program is blocking a particular port, or whether a program is listening properly in future, I'd recommend ActivePorts or FPort. ActivePorts has a nice shiny gui, FPort is command line based - both work well, it just depends what you're more comfortable with :D

http://www.webattack.com/get/activeports.shtml
http://www.foundstone.com/knowledge/proddesc/fport.html

Kai · - Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Germany

Anonymoose · - Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 2192

He's connecting from work to his home connection, so the usual problem of being behind your own router wouldn't apply...

Kai · - Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Germany

Anonymoose · - Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 2192

LAN is local area network, WAN wide area network i.e the internet - unless he's got his block rigged up with CAT5 :)

Wyked · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:02 pm Post subject:

Problem solved, Router doesn't loopback all working otherwise now

Anonymoose · - Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 2192

Add your domain name to the hosts file of the machines on your LAN if you want to access it via name rather than typing the IP. See my example here - http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3445 - or search the forum for 'hosts file'