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
(www.localpin.com), it would actually end up going to the modem setup
pages http://10.0.0.138. 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
http://10.0.0.1 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 http://www.localpin.com 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:
http://www.psi-rho.com/dsltools/siteup.php?site=www.localpin.com
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
http://www.localpin.com in the browser I still always get DNS error!?! |
