Inbound web traffic/port forwarding problem
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Inbound web traffic/port forwarding problem
06-12-2007 11:06 AM
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I'm trying to set up my Mediacentre PC so that I can connect to it over the internet using the webguide application. Webguide is installed and works internally on port 1284.
I have also set up a dynamic DNS entry that my router is succesfully updating regularly.
I have set up the services and firewall rules to port forward to my media centre (on its reserved IP)
If I use a PC at home and try to connect to http://myurl.dnydns.org:1284 (url changed to protect the innocent!) then everything works ok and I can see the firewall rule working in the router logs.
The problem is.... If I try to connect from any other internet PC at any other site - nothing. connections time out.
I have enabled ping response on my router and can demonstrate that the dynamic dns is working ok and ping responds fine.
I have also tried enabling the remote router admin on both ports 1290 and 80 but cannot connect to this either.
Router is on latest firmware.
All I can think is either my router is shafted and wont accept any inbound connections (but then why when I use the URL from my own network (which must hit the WAN interface of the router) does it work??) or force9 is somehow blocking the traffic?
Any help very gratefully received!
Thanks in advance
David
Re: Inbound web traffic/port forwarding problem
06-12-2007 11:32 AM
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Phil
Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
Re: Inbound web traffic/port forwarding problem
06-12-2007 11:54 AM
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Quote from: pjmarsh What do you have the PlusNet firewall set to?
Phil
Thanks Phil, it was set to High. Now set to Off. Didn't realise I had a plusnet firewall! you live and learn! Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have fixed my problem. Do chages take a while to work?
Cheers
David
Re: Inbound web traffic/port forwarding problem
06-12-2007 11:57 AM
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Have you tried rebooting your router?
Re: Inbound web traffic/port forwarding problem
06-12-2007 12:13 PM
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Quote from: Jameseh David,
Have you tried rebooting your router?
It was restarted several times last night as I updated the firmware and trying to get the remote admin to work (has exactly the same problem). I did reset the firewall rules and switch off the remote admin this morning and the router hasn't been reset since. I could try this evening when I finish work.
the really frustrating thing is that it all seem to work when I'm sat at home. I can only test it remotely when I come to work!
David
Re: Inbound web traffic/port forwarding problem
06-12-2007 12:15 PM
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Phil
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Re: Inbound web traffic/port forwarding problem
06-12-2007 12:22 PM
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Quote from: pjmarsh James means have you rebooted your router after changing the PlusNet Firewall settings. The change to the firewall only takes effect when you next connect.
Phil
AH HA! Right. Only 5.5 hours of work to wait through now
really appreciate the help on this one! I'll let you know what happens
David
Re: Inbound web traffic/port forwarding problem
06-12-2007 9:33 PM
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Thanks very much for your help.
It was the plusnet firewall that had been casuing me problems for months. I think I compounded the problems last night as I had accidentally removed the reservation for the ip address for my mediacentre so today the firewall rules were pointing to a duff IP address. I suspect thats why the plusnet firewall rule change didn't work straight away!
Thanks again
David
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