[Watford] plot thickens
Mark Stewart
markwstewart at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 10:32:30 GMT 2007
Had this myself once - good to rule out:
Contact your ISP and ask them what your fixed IP is (presuming you are
paying for a fixed IP?) and enquire if they are doing any maintenance or
future scheduled work on their infrastructure that may affect their
addressing scheme.
On 17/01/07, Jonathan Dibble <recruitment at jdibble.com> wrote:
>
> 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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