Hello all,
Sorry about the cross-posting but I'm not sure of the best group. If you
have any suggestions for a better group, please let me know.
The problem I'm having is easy to describe: I have a home network that's
behind a router. I have set up one of my machines to be a web server and
I've configured the firewall to point to this machine for incoming
requests
on ****t 80. Using a web browser, I can browse to the router's IP address
and
sure enough, I'm forwarded to my web server, it works great, but only if I
am NOT on my local network!
For example, if I am at work or at the coffee shop, I *can* browse to my
router's IP address and I see the web page. If, however, I am at home,
behind the firewall, I *cannot * use my router's IP. From home I have to
use
the web server's local IP: http://192.168.254.68.
Can someone explain
what's
going here? Why can I only use the router's IP if I am outside my network?
Here's the configuration:
Web Server Machine:
Virtual machine running Windows Server 2008, IIS 7
Web Browser Machine:
XP Pro running IE 7
Thanks very much.
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Tom Baxter
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