IIS on SBS 2003 behind COX Cable...

From: tcg_gilbert (tcggilbert_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:17:04 -0800

I'm testing the external website functionality of SBS 2003 for my small
business. I would like to play with the functionality that SBS 2003 provides
in IIS. I have the default website up and running and configured to my
external LAN Card. I"m pointing the default website to that IP address and
have it configured for port 80. I know that COX blocks port 80, however I am
able to to see the website from inside my network (I"m using a netgear
router). When I switch the website to use port 81 and try to get to my
website it stops working? I"m using the port forwarding feature of my
Netgear wireless router. I've also set the port code of my external facing
LAN card to the DMZ. Still does not work. It seems like IIS doesn't
recognize port 81 as a valid HTTP port?

Here is the short and skinny of my setup:

Using COX cable as my internet provider:
NetGear Router assigned port forwarding for HTTP requests of ports 80 to 83
to my external IP: 192.168.0.20
NetGear Router assigned 192.168.0.20 as DMZ
In IIS: Set the default web to use 192.168.0.20 with Port 81
Set the DNS Properties of the server to use 192.168.0.1 (my netgear router)
as a forwarder.
Using IE6 trying to hit the url http://MYCOXIP:81

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