"Hans-Georg Michna" wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:15:01 -0800, Rafael wrote:
>
> >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,
>
> 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
>
> --
> No mail, please.
>

"Hans-Georg Michna" wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:45:02 -0800, Rafael wrote:
>
> >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?,
>
> 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
>
> --
> No mail, please.
>

"Rafael" wrote:

> Hi Hans-Georg:
>
> I read the information you sent me and i'm fully interested. However, excuse
> me if i'm being ignorant but, i don't know how to use this DynDNS, what page
> do i have to visit, if it's in my computer what do i have to open, please,
> help me here...
> --
> Rafael
>
>
> "Hans-Georg Michna" wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:45:02 -0800, Rafael wrote:
> >
> > >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?,
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > No mail, please.
> >

"Rafael" <Raf***@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i melding
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> Hi 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?,
> --
> Rafael
>
>
> "Hans-Georg Michna" wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:15:01 -0800, Rafael wrote:
>>
>> >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,
>>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> No mail, please.
>>