making an ASPX page visible on the web

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I built an aspx page an put it on my local IIS. I also allowed Web Server on
port 80 in windows xp firewall, but i'm not able to see the page from other
machine connected to the internet.

I'm placing the right IP Address the connection assigned to my machine, as
in: http://10.243.40.213/directory/default.aspx.

Could anybody tell me what have i forgotten...

Rafael
 
I built an aspx page an put it on my local IIS. I also allowed Web Server on
port 80 in windows xp firewall, but i'm not able to see the page from other
machine connected to the internet.

I'm placing the right IP Address the connection assigned to my machine, as
in: http://10.243.40.213/directory/default.aspx.

Could anybody tell me what have i forgotten...
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Rafael,

for others on the Internet your internal IP address is useless.
Internet routers cannot route to such an IP address.

You have to use the external IP address of your router.

The better solution is a dynamic DNS service like DynDNS. To see
how that works, you can look on my home computer at
http://fd.dnsalias.com:8080/ , if you like. Just
http://fd.dnsalias.com/ (port 80) gets you my router, but you
won't see much, because you don't know the password.

I even have a test ASP.NET application on it, at
http://fd.dnsalias.com:8080/demo/ .

That's better than using the IP address, because it can change.

Hans-Georg
 
Thank you for replying,

I'm just making tests because i'm new at this. However, is this DynDNS
service paid, or i can find a free one. In a near future, once i finish
preparing, i plan to acquire a domain, but for the moment, i just want to
perform tests...

What do you suggest me to do?,
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Rafael,

DynDNS is free for up to 5 IP addresses. No problem there.

Note that in the router you also have to forward the port to the
computer. For example, a web server uses port 80. (See
http://winhlp.com/ . It has a list of port numbers in the
chapter "Learn about networks and tune them", named, "IP TCP and
UDP port numbers".)

The reason is, if somebody connects to the router's external IP
address, the router needs to know which of the internal
computers to connect him to.

Hans-Georg
 
Hi Hans.Georg,

Thank you for the very valuable information you gave me. I googled it,
created my account page and voilá.

Bye!
 
the basic DynDNS is free, and you need to install a small client on the
machine you want to use.
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Steve,

usually you don't need that client, because it's already built
into the router. You only need to activate the dynamic DNS
function in the router.

Hans-Georg
 
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