Right - trying to serve my CCTV webserver on to the web, but having trouble.

I have setup the ADSL router to port forward any HTTP requests (port 80) to the PC with the webserver on it (192.168.0.6 on my local lan).

I have a static IP address of the form 213.152.xx.xxx (address of my WAN I guess - or rather, IP address of my ADSL router), so I presumed if I typed in 213.152.xx.xxx into a web browser, I should get forwarded to 192.168.0.6 on my local LAN???

Why does this not work? When I type in 213.152.xx.xxx into Explorer, it just says it can't find the address???? If I type 192.168.0.6 into Explorer, I see the CCTV webserver ok.

Is the static IP address of the ADSL router the wrong one to use? Is there some other IP address assinged to me by Eclipse that I should be using?

Anyone any ideas?

 

I have a webcam on, and I use Eclipse too. I just opened up port 80 for the IP address of my PC and it works fine with the external IP address that Eclipse have given me.

I know that isn't much help, but at least you know that it can be done!

Geezer

 

Is that the *only* IP address that Eclipse have given you?

They gave me 1 static IP address, which is the one my adsl router uses. Did you get an additional one?

 

I just have the one address

Geezer

 

I think I may have the answer.....looked up the manual for my router, and it said that you cannot access your own WAN address on the LAN associated with that WAN. You should access it on your own LAN using only the LAN address of the device you want to access, and NOT the address of the WAN.

Don't know if this is a general thing, or specific to this router....

I'll get someone else outside my WAN to see if they can see my webserver using the WAN address.

 

Thanks to SaxoBoy for helping me test this - it all works fine from OUTSIDE my WAN. Just my router doing funny things....

 

It's a typical trait of what's called 1-to-1 NAT imlach.

The way many routers & firewalls work mean that it can't route traffic out and back in with the one IP address. As you found, you need somebody "outside" your router to test with you