Re: IIS Don't Serve Outside of Network

From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 01/19/05


Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:10:53 GMT

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:09:11 -0800, "J_Dirty"
<J_Dirty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I was running McAfee Personal Firewall Plus, and McAfee VirusScan as seperate
>program installs. I purchased McAfee Internet Security Suite 7 a few days ago
>with one year of subscription update services also. Before installing this
>new program, my website worked just fine.

I think you just narrowed you list of possible fixes...

>I serve a .com website from my home
>computer on a dialup connection. I use a dynamic IP service called DynDNS. As
>said before, the website was accessable and worked like it was supposed to
>while running my previous McAfee products. After installation of McAfee
>Internet Security Suite 7, I noticed when I typed my domain into I.E. it
>would work for a long while and eventually I would recieve a 404 Cannot Find
>Server. I contacted McAfee and they told me to disable one service of their
>program at a time until I found which program was causing the problem. This
>did nothing. So I began uninstalling different program services one at a time
>to see what would happen. I uninstalled McAfee Privacy Service and all of a
>sudden I could now access my website through the above listed procedure,
>typing it into I.E. on the computer that the website is served from.

So, you actually have fixed your problem then.

>thought my problem was fixed until I contacted a few clients and they said
>they recieved a 'Unable to Display' error and also a 404 Cannot Find Server.
>I figured that somehow all outside connections were being blocked. So I
>uninstalled McAfee Personal Firewall which left me with only two McAfee
>services, VirusScan and SpamKiller. I was still able to view my website from
>I.E. on the computer serving the site, but was unable to view the site from a
>computer not on my home network. Like I said before, i was running VirusScan
>and Personal Firewall Plus, and my site worked just fine. I'm still unable to
>access the website from any remote computer. It seems that something is
>blocking the connection. My FTP server works when accessed from the computer
>its served from on I.E. as does the website also. But it dont work from
>outside computers.

Have you checked your dynamic IP service? Has your ISP blocked port
80? Have you fully removed *all* McAfee products?

Post to the IIS groups and you'll get better help.

Jeff



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