Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:23:33 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, leifn@image.dk Subject: Re: ppp incoming access. Message-ID: <199803120423.WAA17248@base486.home.org>
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> From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland)
>
> Sometimes somebody tries to connect to my machine, when i ppp to my isp. For
> fun I want to allow access to my webserver, which is not on the ppp'ing
> machine.
>
> webserver: 192.168.0.10 (darla)
> ppp-machine: 192.168.0.11 (arnold)
>
> I have in ppp.conf:
> default:
> alias enable yes
> alias port tcp 192.168.0.10:80 80
>
> This I would think should tell that incoming http-requests should be forwarded
> to the webserver.
>
> If I telnet to the ip-adress ppp gets from my isp, I get the login-prompt for
> arnold.
> But if I telnet to the same ip-adress, port 80, nothing happens.
> Is it possible at all?
You may have other things that you still have to configure, but I have a
home LAN on which I run a PostgresSQL server on a machine behind my ppp-machine.
I can successfully run psql from the shell account on my ISP's machine and connect
to my PostgresSQL server. This is what I have in ppp.conf:
# Redirect postgreSQL connections to base586
alias port tcp 10.0.0.2:5432 5432
For your webserver, what you have looks right. Some things to try:
1. Can you run a web browser on arnold and contact your web server?
I assume you've tried this and it works.
2. Just a telnet to port 80 won't do anything... it appears that ``nothing
happens''. You need to issue a query. This is what I get with my
webserver (apache) when i type ``get'':
bash$ telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to base486.home.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
get
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>400 Bad Request</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Bad Request</H1>
Your browser sent a request that
this server could not understand.<P>
</BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.
bash$
Good luck.
Dave Bodenstab
imdave@mcs.net
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