router

May 13, 2005 3 Replies
J

I have an ADSL router (ZyXEL Prestige 650R) providing internet access to my network. This all works fine. Using NAT, I pass port 80 requests from the router to a web server, this also works fine. My problem is that I cannot properly test any web applications I create except by using the local network address, i.e. http://webservername/test.html works fine, but http://staticIPofRouter/test.html doesn't work from within the network. So what I want to know is, is there any way of me testing the latter address from within the network (it works fine if I test it from off site, but this is impractical most of the time).



Thanks.


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"Joseph Byrns" a écrit dans le message de news: snipped-for-privacy@pipex.net...

Hi Joseph From your inside network, u cannot test a "published" service (HTTP for example) using the external address of your Routeur cause you're doing a loopback request. That's why u gotta type an internal name and not an external name. So if u want to test your rule, many solutions exists but you have to be Outside your network.

Regards

Bruno

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J

OK, thanks for the reply.

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Try using the dial-up modem from one of your computers to connect to the Internet. You will probably have to juggle with the Internet settings so that you can use two NICs at the same time. I don´t know if this would work but I would give it a try.

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