Hello,

I have set up an Ubuntu Server 6.06 web server in my home. I registered my domain name, I set up dynamic DNS with zoneedit and verified that the IP address is being updated, and I pointed the name server entries at my registrar to the appropriate server names provided by zoneedit. I have a Netgear WGR614 router and I have configured port forwarding to the Ubuntu web server. My ISP has assured me that port 80 is not blocked, and I ran nmap to confirm that it is not. From within my home network I can type my domain name in a browser from another computer and get to the web page successfully. However, from the Internet (outside of my network), users cannot access the site; it keeps timing out. It seems to me that the issue is with the router. I tried to put the server out on the DMZ, but that did not work either. I was told that putting it out on the DMZ is not necessary.

I think what I am going to do when I get home tonight is connect my DSL modem directly to the web server and have somebody test it from the Internet. Then I can confirm whether or not it is my router, or the web server.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

lugos

best advice i can give is to use tcpdump on the server to dump all data hitting port 80. assuming you only have one eth nic, run "tcpdump port 80 -vn" and wait... if someone hits the real physical box in any way you'll see the tcp packets scroll on the screen. if not, then yeah i'd look at the router. maybe also try a different protocol.. can you temporarily port forward ssh to it?