I am trying to set up IIS dynamic web pages.
The problem I think I am running into is my IP is unroutable. It’s a 192 number. I’ve opend port 80 in both firewalls and set it loose. Still nobody can access it from a computer outside the network. Is there a way to route a 192 number for Web and FTP usage?
Whaaaa? Please tell me it’s not 192.168.XXX.XXX, right? Otherwise, so long as you’ve pulled down or are granted a legitimate IP address, why would it be blocked?
Just post the IP and I can see what I can find.
BTW - you need to open port 21 for FTP, typically. And be prepared to have hackers go after your port 21 within…5 minutes of opening it up, which is about how long it takes my FTP server to attract attention…
No. Well, it can be done, but by agreement it isn’t. Addresses in the 192.168.x.x range are not forwarded by routers on the internet. If it has to pass such a router, it isn’t going to get to you. You need to get (i.e., pay for,) a public IP address.
(Of course, if your IP address is 192.207, or anything other than 168, the above is just some useless technobabble.)
Yup, you guessed it…it’s a 192.168.XXX.XXX number. I was talking about this with a buddiy of mine who is the server administrator at one of the local colleges here in BFE. He uses IIS at the college. He told me the same thing you did, that their is a way around it but that it would irk my ISP. I had no idea that you could not use an IP that a router assigns. I guess I’ll just have to buy an IP from my ISP, (I think they are only $6.00 a month).
If you have access to the router you may be able to set a static NAT entry. This maps a port on the router’s external IP (one your ISP assigns) to a port on your machine’s internal IP (192.168.x.x). So when someone tries to go to port 80 on the router’s IP, they actually get port 80 on your web server.
How is your network set up?
You need to map your martian IP number to a public IP number. Also, consider using Apache instead of IIS.