Re: XP has stopped serving outside localhost

Hi
It hard to help when there is No info on the Internet connection, the hardware involved, and whether VPN or other security is involved..
I you use a Router, do you use static IP, or a Router with IP reservation within the DHCP, so that the computer would have always the same LAN IP and the ports forwarding would work correctly.
I also think that it is a mistake to use Wireless, or a Laptop for this purpose. It is much better to use a desktop with cable connection to the Router and a static IP that is out of the DHCP range.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

"David" <david.colliver.NEWS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OT4FtdNcJHA.1268@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I am running XP, SP2 on my dell notebook (inspiron 6000).

I have been happily allowing external connections into my notebook for a while. I am a web developer and work from home. The clients occassionaly come to see the progress of their sites.

I am also working with a designer, and he was able to connect to my laptop just after midnight today. Since then, ALL external connections have just stopped. I have rebooted a number of times. I have disabled the firewall (windows firewall). In fact, I have tried a number of things and I just cannot understand what is going on.

Also, I cannot connect to my notebook from any other computer on my network, using the internal IP.

I am connected via wifi and have tried changing my IP, but the router keeps giving me the same IP. I am now also connected by wire with another IP. I cannot connect from another PC on my network by either IP address. I have rebooted my modem and my wifi router. I have also swapped out my router.

I have now eliminated IP address problem, ISP, network (as I can connect to another web server on my network, using my external IP)


This morning, I did try to install filezilla to set up an FTP server for my designer to connect to. It was after this that I found my serving has stopped (It is not just web server but ftp, sql, mysql etc. that have all stopped). I have since uninstalled it.

I can connect to everything fine as localhost, just not via my external IP address or dynamic dns name. (the dynamic dns works fine to other machines on my network)


Any ideas on what else I can try. I have spent most of the day so far working on this and starting to pull my hair out. :-(

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Dave Colliver.
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