You might want to check whether the LAN of the PC outside your network even allows non-80 ports to be accessed. I've seen at least two cases where someone was trying to access a page on their home web server from their work PC and found out later that their company's firewall was dropping or disallowing all non-port-80 httpd requests.
Matt Frye On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:08:30 -0400, Jeff Groves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Victor Snesarev wrote: > > >I know this subject has been discussed to death on the net, but nothing > >I was able to google up helped. > > > >Here's the network: > > > >---[CableModem]---[d-link 713p router]---[PC IP=196.168.0.122] > > > > > >PC running FC2 Linux 2.6.5-1.358 and Apache 2.0.49. > > > >I can reach the sample Apache page from a different computer on the same > >196.168.0.xxx subnet, but cannot reach it from the outside world using > >the router's IP address. > > > >httpd.conf is set up to "Listen 8888" and port 8888 is forwarded to > >196.168.0.122 by the router. > > > >In fact, I know that outside requests reach the PC because Ethereal > >shows a short TCP session when I try to reach the PC from outside the > >router. I compared it to the TCP session from the local home LAN and saw > >something odd. The TCP handshake from the outside connection looks like > >this: > > > >Router-to-PC SYN > >PC-to-Router SYN,ACK > >Router-to-PC RST (terminate) > > > >A handshake from a local LAN PC completes fine and Apache serves the page. > > > >This almost points to the router, but I am not sure where to go from here. > > > >Just for reference, I am not running iptables or ipchains (I don't think > >it's even installed) on the Linux box. Apache access_log and error_log > >do not show any events associated with a connection attempt from outside > >the local LAN. > > > >Any ideas? > > > >-Victor > > > > > The only thing that I can think of (and it's pretty unlikely at best) is > that you may have some entry /etc/hosts.deny file that is preventing the > connection. > > Jeff G. > > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
