Re: Weird connection issues...

From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:33:30 +0800

It could be ISP blocking port 80 traffic.
can you 'telnet yourip 80' ?

if you get 'connection can not be established' meaning port 80 is not
reachable.
change it to 8080 or something else to test first. 

-- 
Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
"Kevin Grigorenko" <KevinGrigorenko@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:ECAD8AD5-12E5-46A0-8692-6AE6547DBD20@microsoft.com...
> Hello all,
>
> I've just finished setting up a full Windows Server 2003 environment.  Got
> Active Directory working and DNS (after a while). My setup is a dsl
> connection into a Linksys router. There is one server which hosts
everything
> (IIS, Exchange, DC, etc.) on the LAN and two client computers which are
> irrelevant.  They are actually not on the domain yet, which will come into
> the picture later.
>
> In my router, I've got ports 0-10000 forwarding to my server (for testing
> purposes, I'll narrow down the ones I need later :)).  Now, since I have a
> dynamic IP, I'm using zoneedit.com to publish my IP to zoneedit, and to
which
> I point my website's name servers. zoneedit then points to my IP and has
mx
> records, etc.
>
> When I was just at home setting everything up, everything worked fine. I
> used my other two computers, which were not on the domain and did not have
my
> server as a DNS setting in their IP settings, and they could ping and do
> everything fine.  The comps were going to my ISP's DNS, so I know that
they
> weren't finding my site just throught the LAN.
>
> Now I'm back to college, but none of my pages work!!  What's weird is that
> FTP works, and I can use Remote Desktop too, which is good in a way since
I
> can fiddle with my server, but is baffling at the same time.
>
> Do I have to do something with ACLs or user setup to allow port 80
traffic?
> I was thinking about putting my server on the DMZ on my router, but that
> seems bad.  Also, I'm not using any UPnP forwarding in my router, but i
tried
> forwarding upnp port 80 as well as my normal forwarding and it still
didn't
> work.
>
> The IIS server is working fine because I can remote desktop in to my
server
> and I can locally go to the site.  Also, ftp is working which is hosted by
> iis.
>
> Moreover, when I ping my domain name, it resolves to the correct IP, but
the
> ping packets fail.  This must have something to do with the problem.
>
> Thank you so much!
> Kevin Grigorenko

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