ScreamerChaotix
Technical User
I've had this problem before, but after a few weeks of playing around I still can't produce the answer. I registered a domain name, set up my router to allow the http connection to go through to the machine running apache, and set up all my html files. Everytime I enter in my site url or ip into another machine on my LAN, I get right to the site. Good so far, but here's the bizarre part...no one outside the LAN can see it. They can enter the url or the ip, and still nothing. Naturally I assumed this had something to do with allow/deny settings, but I haven't touched them at all. I should note I'm using a cable modem, so another possibility I considered was that my ISP was filtering connections to port 80 on their network to prevent people from eating up bandwidth...but if that was so, wouldn't my dns requests be blocked on their way back into the LAN? (Or should I admit I know nothing about dns and just shutup?) I haven't yet checked to see if people on the cable network can see it, and I'm not sure when I'll get the chance...but if anyone has any advice I'd be most appreciative, there isn't much point in having a site that can only be seen locally.