Topic: website not available from outside

[aniston]

hello,

I have the esmith v 4.1 running up and well with a static ip thru my adsl provider in italy. I have set the domain name as berzek.org and internally it works well if i do a www.berzek.org i can see my web site.

I have a registered domain name with easyspace.com and the my domain berzek.org has its name server pointing to ADSL-213-38.19-151.NET24.IT which even calculates its real ip address of 151.38.19.213 my fixed ip address from my adsl service provider.

but doing a www.berzek.org from outside my lan (eg simple modem only connected PC) i dont get any response. Even a ping to www.berzek.org does not gice me a response not even a request timed out response. Someone mentioned about a reverse lookup zone that may need to be configured but have no idea where and how to do that.

Any ideas ?

one thing to note i set up a dyndns account to get by my non working web site and that works try looking at www.ccare.dyn.dns.org and you will see the simple neat e-smith web page. So I'm quite sure that the apache web server is responding to external querries on port 80. But i dont know why an external ping to www.berzek.org not respond.

Finally i did a whois database lookup and even that works well as it shows my real static internet ip correctly as 151.38.19.213 so surely i have to set this thing of reverse lookup zone somewhere as the ping does not even reply with the famous "timed out" response when it cannot find the address.

If this post is in the wrong place.... please foward it to the right one.

thanks to all at esmith in advance on the lovely simple server distribution.

cheers once again.
aniston.

[Paul Miller]

Hi Aniston,

I am can't remember if this will help but when I was at an ISP I always put a reverse lookup for domains.  If you can, have your ISP put in a PTR record for you at the static address for berzek.org rather than his ADSL domains.

aniston wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> I have the esmith v 4.1 running up and well with a static ip
> thru my adsl provider in italy. I have set the domain name as
> berzek.org and internally it works well if i do a
> www.berzek.org i can see my web site.
>
> I have a registered domain name with easyspace.com and the my
> domain berzek.org has its name server pointing to
> ADSL-213-38.19-151.NET24.IT which even calculates its real ip
> address of 151.38.19.213 my fixed ip address from my adsl
> service provider.
>
> but doing a www.berzek.org from outside my lan (eg simple
> modem only connected PC) i dont get any response. Even a ping
> to www.berzek.org does not gice me a response not even a
> request timed out response. Someone mentioned about a reverse
> lookup zone that may need to be configured but have no idea
> where and how to do that.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> one thing to note i set up a dyndns account to get by my non
> working web site and that works try looking at
> www.ccare.dyn.dns.org and you will see the simple neat
> e-smith web page. So I'm quite sure that the apache web
> server is responding to external querries on port 80. But i
> dont know why an external ping to www.berzek.org not respond.

dig www.berzek.org any

Shows no CNAME for www on berzek.org.

I believe dyndns sets one automatically or provides for a wildcard.

dig www.ccare.dyn.dns.org

does show a CNAME in the ANSWER SECTION.

> Finally i did a whois database lookup and even that works
> well as it shows my real static internet ip correctly as
> 151.38.19.213 so surely i have to set this thing of reverse
> lookup zone somewhere as the ping does not even reply with
> the famous "timed out" response when it cannot find the
> address.

I was able to ping 151.38.19.213 and get a response.

Hope this helps,
Paul Miller