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!

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.

Ron Lowe wrote:
Show quoteHide quoteThanks Ron.

I'll try it from work today!

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