Not a biggie, but can anyone help with forwarding port 80?
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Not a biggie, but can anyone help with forwarding port 80?
Hi all, My brother is visiting me and he runs a web server from his PC (Win 2000). He cannot access the website he's got on it from outside the LAN, so a friend of his suggested that I "forward port 80 to his machine". The internet is provided to us via a RH 8 box acting as a router, DNS server, sendmail server, etc. Know what this friend is talking about? I tried playing around with iptables but didn't really get anywhere. Lemme know if you have any ideas! Thx all
Sorry but this is going to sound very,very patronising but...just leave it and go for pint/drink with your brother and forget about it. It's the simple solution believe me other than buying/going for a drink -computers suck..
You feeling alright? Having a bad day sir? lol. I hear ya. If you say it's a simple solution, you must know how to do it. How about spreading the knowledge wealth? Anyone know how to do this?
Nah, just having a beer day...just wondered what someone not been able to access their own hosted site had to do with your own particular set-up unless he was on your LAN...hiccupp....Monday is international beer day (least it would be if I had my way)....if it's on your LAN then port forwarding yah...hic...sorry not to be much more help for the moment
it is an iptables thing, what you want is to learn about DNAT, basically it will take an incoming connection to port x on your gateway and rewrite the packet to head to another machine/port.
tell your brother he might also wanna make sure he has all the latest patches for IIS if that's the webserver he's using.....if he's not using IIS then disregard
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