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 Ok the twist is I am using iis on xp pro (home server) not apache. Click on the my server link in my sig. You should get a request times out error message from your browser. It works locally from both of my pcs, but not remotely. I thought it was a router problem, but it is not a 404 (I do not think, I have not seen the message only heard about it). I am still in my dmz and my dns from the good people at www.no-ip.com is still current becuase my ip is almost completely static. Any ideas? Networking and printers are two things that I have no patients for.

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Are you allowing anonymous connections?
Do you have the correct default page set it the documents tab? index.html or whatever.

Quote from: Thing on June 10, 2004, 07:43 AM
Are you allowing anonymous connections?
Do you have the correct default page set it the documents tab? index.html or whatever.

yes. What was the error message you got? I did not think that would be it because it is not a 403 error, it is a time out. I was looking at the connection time out settings and they seem to be in order. I am not sure if it is my router or iis. I am about to default the router and reinstall iis though. The default file is default.aspx that is all set. Default.asxp -> index.aspx -> default.asp -> index.asp -> default.html -> index.html is the order.

Check what IPs your web server is listening to. Perhaps you are firewalled? Perhaps your ISP firewalls you so you can't set up a web server on that IP?

I just reformated and reinstalled windows at a lan party yesterday because I was having network problems, the install before that was fresh. I think I just got a bad windows install. Wha was happening with the network (huge pain in the ass) was I had to type in a computer ip on the network instead of the name because it could not get to the computer from the name. I also had other problems. But I bet this will fix iis since my software firewall was disabled, i was in a dmz, and all of the iis settings looked great. Ill reinstall iis tomorrow with adobe, dreamweaver, and office. Ill post back if it is fixed.

Quote from: peofeoknight on June 12, 2004, 09:22 PM
Wha was happening with the network (huge pain in the ass) was I had to type in a computer ip on the network instead of the name because it could not get to the computer from the name.

This part sounds like you didn't have dns configured correctly. It most likely wouldn't require a reinstall to fix

Eww, that happened to me after I installed the drivers for my ethernet card (I think).

Quote from: Adron on June 13, 2004, 05:03 AM

Quote from: peofeoknight on June 12, 2004, 09:22 PM
Wha was happening with the network (huge pain in the ass) was I had to type in a computer ip on the network instead of the name because it could not get to the computer from the name.

This part sounds like you didn't have dns configured correctly. It most likely wouldn't require a reinstall to fix

well I am too lazy to run my own dns, I just use www.noip.com I don't even have a domain, its a tesing server from my box. Still have not reinstalled iis btw. I do not really even need dns, for our purposes my ip is static, it has not changed for 6 months. Comcast has a persistant ip, where the ip likes to cling to the modem, but I can manually pull a new ip if I need to.

Quote from: peofeoknight on June 14, 2004, 01:31 AM
well I am too lazy to run my own dns, I just use www.noip.com I don't even have a domain, its a tesing server from my box. Still have not reinstalled iis btw. I do not really even need dns, for our purposes my ip is static, it has not changed for 6 months. Comcast has a persistant ip, where the ip likes to cling to the modem, but I can manually pull a new ip if I need to.

DNS lets you type in the name of a computer instead of the IP address. Well, DNS, hosts files, lmhosts files, WINS, and many other things work together, but DNS is the most common.

Quote from: Adron on June 14, 2004, 03:51 AM

Quote from: peofeoknight on June 14, 2004, 01:31 AM
well I am too lazy to run my own dns, I just use www.noip.com I don't even have a domain, its a tesing server from my box. Still have not reinstalled iis btw. I do not really even need dns, for our purposes my ip is static, it has not changed for 6 months. Comcast has a persistant ip, where the ip likes to cling to the modem, but I can manually pull a new ip if I need to.

DNS lets you type in the name of a computer instead of the IP address. Well, DNS, hosts files, lmhosts files, WINS, and many other things work together, but DNS is the most common.

I know I know, I just did not feel like running my own dns server and opening another port on my router. I use noip.com for free remote dynamic dns. But like I said I do not even need dns with a static ip... I can just use a redirect like .vze.com if I wanted to.

Quote from: peofeoknight on June 14, 2004, 10:26 AM
I know I know, I just did not feel like running my own dns server and opening another port on my router. I use noip.com for free remote dynamic dns. But like I said I do not even need dns with a static ip... I can just use a redirect like .vze.com if I wanted to.

If that's the case, and you chose not to use dns, I don't see why you mentioned that as a problem with your computer?

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Wha was happening with the network (huge pain in the ass) was I had to type in a computer ip on the network instead of the name because it could not get to the computer from the name.

Quote from: Adron on June 14, 2004, 12:22 PM

Quote from: peofeoknight on June 14, 2004, 10:26 AM
I know I know, I just did not feel like running my own dns server and opening another port on my router. I use noip.com for free remote dynamic dns. But like I said I do not even need dns with a static ip... I can just use a redirect like .vze.com if I wanted to.

If that's the case, and you chose not to use dns, I don't see why you mentioned that as a problem with your computer?

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Wha was happening with the network (huge pain in the ass) was I had to type in a computer ip on the network instead of the name because it could not get to the computer from the name.

The network was the problem. I had a whole bunch of issues with the bad install of windows. When did I say dns in particular was a problem. The server is running now on this fresh windows install. I mentioned that I am running remote dynamic dns in my first post so you guys would know that it is not a dns problem. But the server is back up and it was a windows install problem. I had a whole bunch of networking problems on that install. Also notepad did not work lol.

Quote from: peofeoknight on June 15, 2004, 12:17 AM
The network was the problem. I had a whole bunch of issues with the bad install of windows. When did I say dns in particular was a problem. The server is running now on this fresh windows install. I mentioned that I am running remote dynamic dns in my first post so you guys would know that it is not a dns problem. But the server is back up and it was a windows install problem. I had a whole bunch of networking problems on that install. Also notepad did not work lol.

Just saying that remote dynamic dns has nothing to do with if your computer can resolve the names of other machines. Remote dynamic dns is a dns server, resolving the names of other machines is a dns client. Or a wins client, or ...

I know that. But when remote people could not see my machine I tested the ip because the time out could have been the dns at that point, which it was not, because the timeout occured also when I used the ip.

Quote from: peofeoknight on June 15, 2004, 03:41 PM
I know that. But when remote people could not see my machine I tested the ip because the time out could have been the dns at that point, which it was not, because the timeout occured also when I used the ip.

It gets more muddled every time you explain it!