Re: Is a domain name required for accessing a personal "web site"?
From: Dan McDaid (no_at_email.com)
Date: 06/29/04
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:58:39 +0100
First things first.
As Bill has pointed out in his post, it is imperitive that you change your
IP address range. 12.x.x.x is in the public range - consider the problem
you have when you try to access somewebserver.com that has a public
('routable') ipaddress 12.0.0.3 but you have a pc on your lan with this
same IP address.
The ranges
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 72.31.255.255
and
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
are all reserved IP ranges that are 'non routable'. Any router that
recieves a packet addressed to said addresses simply drops it. i.e. they
are not used on the public internet.
Next, on to your problem.
So long as you have a way of knowing your public ip address assigned to your
connection then this is possible. You will need to configure
port-forwarding on your modem to forward all incoming port 80 traffic to the
internal address of your webserver. Strictly speaking it isn't possible to
connect a modem directly into your LAN unless it has some sort of gateway
and NAT functionality. What exact model are you using? Check the
documentation to see if this can be done.
Once done, you'd simply have to point a webrowser to the public ip address.
Let me know about that model number though.
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Cheers
Dan
"Mark Harton" <mharton@pageservices.com> wrote in message
news:95477059.0406281502.70a5b204@posting.google.com...
> I have personal web pages served by Apache on RedHat 9. I'm able to
> see these pages on other PCs in my home using the server's IP address
> of 12.xx.xx.xx. All of the PCs including the server are simply
> connected via a hub. The hub is connected to a DSL modem. Currently
> there is no firewall, as I'm trying to solve the problem below first.
>
> I would like to be able to access my web pages using a standard web
> browser (from work, from friend's homes, etc) simply by typing in the
> http://12.xx.xx.xx address WITHOUT having to have a domain name (
> without having to use noip.com, either). The IP address is dynamic,
> but I have an SMS script that keeps me up to date as to what it is.
> The several help and howtos that I've read through on
> VPN/tunneling/masquerading all refer to DNS and using a registered
> domain name. Is there a way to access a home Apache server via a web
> browser that is external to the LAN using an IP address, not a
> registered domain name?
>
> Any help or HOWTO re-direction would be greatly appreciated.
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