[Watford] plot thickens
Jonathan Dibble
recruitment at jdibble.com
Wed Jan 17 22:27:37 GMT 2007
HI Steve/Neel/anyone else who want to comment,
Thanks for your suggestions.
First of all i should have been clearer. I don't have any problems
inside my little network. i can browse served up apps on my ruby on
rails box on port 3000 without any difficulty from another machine.
my problem is that i cannot get from outside my router (say from work)
onto my router and through to the RoR box. when i go to
www.whatisimyip.net i get a totally different IP from the one my router
says it has??? how is that possible? i restarted my router and the it
gets a new IP but the whatismyip is still different.
i have the router set up to forward any tcp for port 3000 onto the
particular box. i also have the remote management switched on - its just
one of those consumer netgear things. that should allow me to access
remotely the router set up. it's set up for port 8080.
ok, so when i go to access the router from the internet onthat port i
get nothing. however i tried out neels suggesion and used nmap. that
told me ports 80 and 5190 are open. it says 3000 and 8080 are closed.
my router is set up that 3000 and 8080 should be open????? also, 80 and
5190 closed??? what is going on? for nmap i used the IP address the
router tells me it has.
the router has a log, all that is showing is that i constantly get
attempts made on port 26390? (Dos) whatever that means? does that mean
denial of service? quick though came to me...does that prevent access
from outside? is that my problem?
any help appreciated? this problem is more than a bit annoying now :-)
cheers,
jon.
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 10:00 +0000, Neel Upadhyaya wrote:
> If you're using a Redhat variant check the SELinux settings and for
> any distro check your local firewall config.
> Also it's not uncommon for a broadband router to reject pings as it
> makes it harder to determine what equipment is on the other side of
> the wall. If you have the IP address then I could do an nmap and
> determine what ports are open. You can do this if you have shell
> access to a box outside your home network.
>
>
> On 17/01/07, Steven Acreman <sacreman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd start from inside your network. Disable the service that
> runs on port 3000 temporarily and start netcat in listen mode
> on that port. Then from another pc on your lan telnet to the
> port and type some stuff.
>
> Then check your router. Make sure external port 3000 is port
> forwarded to the internal server on the same port. Determine
> your external IP address (sites like http://www.whatismyip.net
> will tell you that - or just look on your router).
>
> From a PC outside of your network try the same telnet test
> again on port 3000 with netcat listening.
>
> If all else fails you can try reseting the router or changing
> the port to something more well known.
>
>
> On 17/01/07, Jonathan Dibble <recruitment at jdibble.com> wrote:
> Guys,
> Can any one help me out with this silly problem?
>
> I have a spare box set up for learning ruby on rails,
> and i want to view
> pages on it from the internet (eg work). however my
> router simply WILL
> NOT behave as though it is visible ofn the internet.
> i cannot ping it
> or anything. in the past i had ftp and mysql going
> through it from the
> itnernet onto my little network to a particular box,
> but now it just
> won't play ball. i checked and double checked i have
> the right ip and
> i'm sure i have it correctly. any ideas? i enabled
> port forwarding for
> 3000 which is what ruby on rails and webrick uses for
> development. but
> ithink its nothing to do with the box becuase there is
> no record in the
> router log of any connections being attemped????
>
> does anyone have any suggestions? is it possible the
> isp blocked it
> somehow?
>
> cheers,
> jon
>
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 16:40 +0000, CLIFF DEAMER wrote:
> > Hi Steven,
> > That's a nice offer and I would be up for that. but
> I am one with
> > questions not answers so await news on others
> interested (otherwise I
> > could bore you to tears!)
> > Cliff
> >
> > Steven Acreman <sacreman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is anyone up for a Saturday meeting before
> March? My
> > girlfriend works most Saturdays so my house
> is free (I live
> > just off of StAlbans road in Watford which
> is close to the
> > town centre). It's only a 2up-2down terrace
> but it should fit
> > 5 or 6 people fairly comfortably.
> >
> > Just a suggestion until the core membership
> increases..
> >
> > <snip>
> >
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