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This is my situation. I set up a DNS server to host this website i have.. everything works great! but, since i am on a LAN i cannot access my own website/mail from home, becuase i cannot use the public IP address.
When i try to send mail using the Private email addresses as the SMTP and POP3 servers, i can send email out, but cannot recieve anything because i am not able to use the public IP address.
My question is.. is there any way i can set up my computer to act as if i were an outside user connecting to my server with the public IP address?
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Routers do this - can't access WAN address from LAN - to protect from IP spoofing. I don't know how you can get around it and even if you do, you open yourself up to that kind of attack.
Are you using your own email server? If so, which one? You should be able to set it up to receive email both from external and internal IPs.
You should be able to access the web site using the LAN IP address from any host on the subnet.
Peter
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I haven't set that up before, but there must be a way to do so that mail is collected from the WAN IP and delivered internally. Did you check for an FAQ on this on their web site?
Peter
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ok.. i got the kerio mail server running fine.. now all i am wondering is how i can view my external website www.ericwingate.com internally on the LAN? when i type in the servers computer local IP address.. it returns: Bad Request (Invalid Hostname).
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Hmmmmm. Can you ping the server? Is there an internal firewall in place? Are you using the format http:\\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx?
Peter
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I can ping the server with the local IP and the Private IP.. others on the internet can see my website.. but i cannot because I am on the same LAN as the server.
I did use the format http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
I just cannot figure out why this is the way it is!
any ideas?
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How about from the *console* of the server itself? Can you access the web site from there using the _IP_, _not_ http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1?
Are you using any kind of firewall _inside_ the router - in other words, a firewall _other_ than the router?
Peter
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I cannot access the website from the server console with the public IP address. The only firewall that is running is on the router.. and appropriate ports are open on the router.
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did you setup the port forwarding on the router? ex: you would have the router forward port 80 ( for web server ) to your internal IP address.
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"how i can view my external website www.ericwingate.com internally on the LAN? when i type in the servers computer local IP address.. it returns: Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)."
Well, which is it? This was the original problem.. Now when I try to help accessing the web server by LAN IP, you respond by saying you can't access it by WAN IP!
"I cannot access the website from the server console with the public IP address"
Peter
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LAN or WAN IP, i cant access my website no matter what. Neither IP works. do i have to add a record in DNS that points to my local web servers IP? such as 210.203.0.6 is local IP.
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Don't even bother with the server's WAN address from inside the LAN. I already told you the router will prevent that and it just confuses the issue.
If you are sitting at the server console as you said, then obviously it is not a DNS problem. In fact if you can ping the server from a workstation by name then that clearly indicates this is not DNS related.
How about http://localhost from the server console? If that doesn't work then there is something wrong with your IIS configuration - I don't know exactly what.
One thing - I assume that your server is operating on port 80 or you have mentioned it ages ago.
Zoddy,
He is trying to access the webserver from inside the LAN. He is not going thru the router!Peter
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pmkdatabase is correct on the LAN/WAN issue with routers. It isn't a DNS problem, but can be solved (or so I've read) by hosting a DNS. If all of your LAN computers have as their primary DNS server your DNS machine that points your domain name to the local IP of the machine hosting, then they'll lookup their primary DNS, find your local ip and go there without passing the router.
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Eric,
It almost sounds like you are suggesting a reverse lookup zone. That hasn't been discussed yet in this thread, but may be exactly what is missing.
Peter
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