IIS

[Tim]

Hi everyone

I have IIS installed and I'd like to be able to connect to it from
outside my LAN. I've got my WAN IP address from
http://www.whatismyip.com/ but when I enter it in a browser like so:

http://xxx.xxx.x.xx

I get the login prompt for my Netgear DG834 router's web interface!

I need to find a way to forward the request to the PC running IIS (is
/this/ "port forwarding" then?). I poked around but the only way that
seems likely is to create a firewall rule and use the "Send to LAN
server" setting. But after setting up the following rule:

Inbound Services:

Service: HTTP
Action: Allow always
LAN server IP address: [IP of PC running IIS]
WAN users: All
Log: Yes

I still get the router's config. Is it because I'm trying to connect
from inside the LAN or have I misconfigured the router?

IIS works fine locally (i.e. if I access http://localhost/ )

Advice greatly appreciated!

 

[Ron Lowe]

Hi everyone

I have IIS installed and I'd like to be able to connect to it from outside
my LAN. I've got my WAN IP address from http://www.whatismyip.com/ but
when I enter it in a browser like so:

http://xxx.xxx.x.xx
[...]
I still get the router's config.
Is it because I'm trying to connect from inside the LAN

Yes.

You can't access internal sites from an internal machine via the external
address.

NAT devices don't usually permit this 'loopback'.

Test it from a real external machine.

 

[Tim]

Hi everyone

I have IIS installed and I'd like to be able to connect to it from outside
my LAN. I've got my WAN IP address from http://www.whatismyip.com/ but
when I enter it in a browser like so:

http://xxx.xxx.x.xx

[...]

I still get the router's config.
Is it because I'm trying to connect from inside the LAN

Yes.

You can't access internal sites from an internal machine via the external
address.

NAT devices don't usually permit this 'loopback'.

Test it from a real external machine.

Thanks Ron.

I'll try it from work today!