JavaSprout
Programmer
I have just bought a Thomson Speedtouch 510 and am having difficulty configuring it so that my web server is visible to the outside world. Previously I had been running quite happily for a year or so with a Speedtouch USB modem, an ADSL line, dynamic DNS using the DirectUpdate program to update zoneedit.com.
I don't really know what the problem is, as modem configuration is all new to me, but I will tell you what I have tried and what I have seen and I hope this will give you enough clues, at least to ask the right questions!
By default it seemed that when I typed the address of my site ( it would actually end up going to the modem setup pages No doubt a HUGE security hole, but hey, at least it showed something was working!
I ran ipconfig, and then from the information below I also typed in my browser and got my website. Progress! I tried putting this as the NAPT inside IP address. I also tried putting this as the NAPT default server IP address. Still I get a dns error when I type the URL so something is still not quite right. I keep reading about this stuff; the theory is making more sense but the practise is still not quite there...
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 5:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : lan
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.138
I tested the site on the following link:
When I run this it seems to give pretty correct results, implying strongly that things are all OK, and including most surprisingly a real page from the actual site in the 'html' returned box. So everything looks OK.
Yet when I try to surf to the site just normally, with in the browser I still always get DNS error!?!
I'm going crazy with this. I've spent days trying to get it working, and it's a real showstopper. I'd be enormously grateful for any ideas.
I don't really know what the problem is, as modem configuration is all new to me, but I will tell you what I have tried and what I have seen and I hope this will give you enough clues, at least to ask the right questions!
By default it seemed that when I typed the address of my site ( it would actually end up going to the modem setup pages No doubt a HUGE security hole, but hey, at least it showed something was working!
I ran ipconfig, and then from the information below I also typed in my browser and got my website. Progress! I tried putting this as the NAPT inside IP address. I also tried putting this as the NAPT default server IP address. Still I get a dns error when I type the URL so something is still not quite right. I keep reading about this stuff; the theory is making more sense but the practise is still not quite there...
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 5:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : lan
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.138
I tested the site on the following link:
When I run this it seems to give pretty correct results, implying strongly that things are all OK, and including most surprisingly a real page from the actual site in the 'html' returned box. So everything looks OK.
Yet when I try to surf to the site just normally, with in the browser I still always get DNS error!?!
I'm going crazy with this. I've spent days trying to get it working, and it's a real showstopper. I'd be enormously grateful for any ideas.