it cant work like that ;->
your router has an IP on the public intermanet
your DNS entry points to that IP
so any traffic from anywhere to that IP winds up at your router
your router has a port forward on port 80 on the internet interface to a
fixed ip on the private network.

when you put the routers public IP into the box it sees a request on port 80
of its private network port and hence serves up its admin page.

only thing i can think of is some kind of weird reverse port forward
ie basically bounce port say 8080 to port 80 on your internal webservers IP.

i can see stuff on my own web server because it *is* my router.

setting the hosts file is probbly about as good a suggestion as your going
to get.
the only thing where it would make a difference is if you differentiated
between public IP addresses in some way (moderate ammount of effort to even
find a dialouge for this ;->)
the hosts file method should reveal anything happening oddly with names and
URL's
but again it really shouldnt matter.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Russell McMahon
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 00:50
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT] Router won't let me out
>
>
> > If i understand it corectly you go to the logon page for the router.
> > I think this may be caused by the remote administration of the
> > router being set to on and on port 80.
>
> I thought this may be the cause too - but remote admin is off.
>
> > Try switching it to off OR switching the port to a more suitable one
> > I believe 8080 is common.
>
> Thanks. I'll try. I imagine I can only do this on the internal side of
> the router as the external has to conform to whatever is sending me
> HTTP
>
> I want to "see" the server externally if possible to help combat
> Murphy. Years of experience suggests that if you don't see what
> someone else sees, or if the path you arrived at, then you are running
> a simulation - which may be indistinguishable from either magic or a
> rigged demo, depending on whether Murphy was last talking to Clark or
> Asimov.
>
> I have accessed it via a dial up link "just to see" and so far all is
> as I hoped. But I'd rather not have to do that if possible. It does,
> of course, give me a proper idea of what dial up users will
> experience. One use will be for church youth group files and many
> users will have dialup access.
>
> Thanks for the various comments so far.
>
> Router is a Dynalink RTA210
>
>
>
>         Russell McMahon
>
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