Ping works but nothing shows up in IE

[hughy]

I'm a software engineer, but I'm very new to the server/hosting side of web apps. I have a server set up running Windows 2000 Server. I have my name server and everything set up in the forward lookup. I can successfully ping everything but when I hit the site with a browser I get nothing. I have a Netgear router and I have my DMZ pointing to my server and I have http port forwarding set up to point all the http requests to my server. If someone could help me out I'd a appreciate it,

Thanks

 

[Shift838]

Make sure port 80 is open through your ISP to direct to your router. Ping packets use ICMP which is not on port 80.

 

[hughy]

Is there anyway I can test if port 80 is open other than calling my ISP?

 

[Shift838]

yea.. put in the IP address as such in the browser to see if it comes up via IP.. if it does then you have a naming issue somewhere

 

[hughy]

I don't think I have my reverse lookup set up correctly. When I set up my reverse lookup do I need to use the IP that is coming into my house or the local IP that my router assigns to my server. I currently have it set up using the IP coming into my house but it doesn't seem to be working

Thanks

 

[Shift838]

server Ip.

 

[hughy]

ok, so if my ISP blocks port 80 is there any way I can get around that by changing a setting on my router or something else?

 

[hughy]

Well, I spent about three hours messing around with IIS last night and my site is working this morning. I'm not sure what I did to fix it but it works. Thanks for your responses.