Davide Bianchi wrote:
> On 2004-08-29, Matt <nospam-1.RemoveThis@spam.matt.blissett.me.uk> wrote:
>> Could also be a firewall doing the same.
>
> The firewall would block also the access from the localnetwork.
Not necessarily. I think the new Windows firewall has different rules for
local and remote access. Others probably have this too.
>> Or a router, not doing the port forwarding.
>
> If he is accessing the machine using the external IP and it works
> there is no router doing NAT or port forwarding.
(reinstated, written by the OP)
| when i
| connect to the internet and access the apache2 server with the ip
| address provided by the ISP, then also it works fine. but when i give
| that same ip address provided by the ISP to others, they are not able
| to access my apache2 server. please help me out in configuring the
| server.
I have seen advertised a feature where the router with IP a.b.c.d will
mirror packets sent to its own IP from the local network back to that
network, as if they were from a true remote host. I don't know how this
works, or if it works, or if it bypasses the port forwarding of the router.
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Matt
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