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For quite a few years I ran my own Windows 2000 server as a sub-domain
of a much larger domain. Eventually our IT people wanted my server
shut down for security reasons. Among other services I ran a VPN host
on my old server. Several machines at home (all XP Pro with SPs and
all updates) were clients of that VPN service. One of those machines
also hosted a website using DDNS through a DLink router and DSL
modem. I never experienced any problems with website access while the
VPN client was running on that machine -- which was just about always.
Now I am using a VPN service hosted on a machine looked after by our
systems administrator. Both VPNs were PPTP. I can see no meaningful
difference in the way I have VPN configured on my client machines at
home, including the machine that hosts the website (that machine is
connected to the router by ethernet cable and is on a fixed IP
number). After the change to the new VPN host, however, attempts to
browse it to the website are unsuccessful. The DDNS service provides
the browser with the correct IP number and the alternate port number
for IIP on my machine but the browser fails to connect. If I
disconnect the VPN client, however, the browse is successful. This
problem is new after the change to the new VPN host. I never
experienced it in all the time that I ran my own server.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be here -- and how to
fix it?
Thanks in advance for any help!
of a much larger domain. Eventually our IT people wanted my server
shut down for security reasons. Among other services I ran a VPN host
on my old server. Several machines at home (all XP Pro with SPs and
all updates) were clients of that VPN service. One of those machines
also hosted a website using DDNS through a DLink router and DSL
modem. I never experienced any problems with website access while the
VPN client was running on that machine -- which was just about always.
Now I am using a VPN service hosted on a machine looked after by our
systems administrator. Both VPNs were PPTP. I can see no meaningful
difference in the way I have VPN configured on my client machines at
home, including the machine that hosts the website (that machine is
connected to the router by ethernet cable and is on a fixed IP
number). After the change to the new VPN host, however, attempts to
browse it to the website are unsuccessful. The DDNS service provides
the browser with the correct IP number and the alternate port number
for IIP on my machine but the browser fails to connect. If I
disconnect the VPN client, however, the browse is successful. This
problem is new after the change to the new VPN host. I never
experienced it in all the time that I ran my own server.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be here -- and how to
fix it?
Thanks in advance for any help!