What is IP Address of the machine set to. If it is set to 127.0.0.1 then you will not get any outside connections. Similarly if you are behind corporate firewall and use IP address 192.168.*.* but use NAT to get out then you need to use the corporate firewalls IP Address that the port comes in on.
HTH Darren Ferguson On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Michael Teter wrote: > Hello. > > I just installed AOLServer, and I quickly ran into a problem that I can't > figure out. (I did search archives, but I couldn't find reference to this > problem.) > > I created a user, "aolserver", and I perform the following command as root > to test: > # cd /usr/local/aolserver > # bin/nsd -f -u aolserver -g aolserver -t sample-config.tcl > (I have tried leaving port 8000 as default, and I have also tried with > port 8080.) > > To test, with lynx on the local machine I'm able to go to > http://127.0.0.1:8000, and I see the default page. > > Then remotely I go to http://www.mydomain.com:8000, and I get a connection > refused. I also tried telneting there and was also refused. My firewall > settings on the box allow traffic on port 8000 (and incidentally I also > tested on 8080, which I'm absolutely certain allows traffic since that's > what I normally run Tomcat on.) > > I haven't even attempted to fully understand the config file yet, but it > is my expectation that I shouldn't have to modify the file to fix this > problem. > > So to summarize, AOLServer allows local traffic to port 8000, but > specifically disallows remote traffic to port 8000. > > I welcome any suggestions. > > Michael >
