From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 21 13:22:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB2F16A4B3 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF24643F75 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:22:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E223541; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:22:07 +0200 (MEST) Received: from cs.umu.se (h5n5c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [81.224.104.5]) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540A2353E; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:22:06 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3F959565.1070909@cs.umu.se> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:21:57 +0200 From: Paul Everlund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Micke P References: <20031021184148.76057.qmail@web14502.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to see website from the Internet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:22:11 -0000 Micke P wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things > set up to see my website on the Internet. I know > people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am. > :-) > > My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and > I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site no > problem on my LAN- http://192.168.254.25:8080/, but > not outside. > > My ISP is earthlink and it's a dynamic IP account. > Right now the WAN IP is: 68.164.84.178. Trying > http://68.164.84.178:8080/ doesn't work. I've opened > the port, 8080, on the router. Right now the IP is 68.164.84.178? This is not an direct answer to your question, but if you're using a dynamic IP I suggest you go to, for an example DynDNS, and get a name for your site. After that you should install some kind of daemon that updates (in this case) DynDNS to reflect your dynamic IP-changes. In that way you should always be able to connect to your box! But all that I guess you've already figured out. :-) > What should I look at to solve this? I have > unsuccessfully scoured the complete freebsd book, > handbook, and archives. But haven't found anything to > address this specific problem yet, although it seems > straightforward. If you think I don't understand > networks exactly, you are correct; but it's not for > lack of trying. > > Thanks for help, > Micke Best regards, Paul