Topic: No Outside Web Access

[Ted Clark]

I hope someone can help because it looks like E-smith would be useful to us.

I have a Linksys router which forwards from a publicly routable address on port 80 to the E-smith box on an internal IP 192.168.1.10. I can see the web page from any of the clients within the internal LAN but not from an outside address (ie from the internet). All I want e-smith to do is to work as an easilly configured standalone web and e-mail server.

I know the router is working because I set up a very simple (Analogx) http server on a Windoze box and port-forwarded to it with no problems but I would prefer to use E-smith and Linux if I can.

[Ted Clark]

To add a few more details:

I am using version 4.1.2 that came with LinuxFormat magazine and installed using  the workaround as suggested on the front page. (install perl fromthe redhat package etc.).

I am a bit of a newbie so I'm not sure what details are important.

[John Goodwin]

What ISP are you using?  The reason I ask is that some consumer broadband ISP's (including mine, AT&T) have begun filtering the webserver port in an attempt to contain the codered virus.  Everything still works great on my internal network and I can still connect to the box externally on other ports, but I can no longer access webpages externally because the port is now blocked.  This change has only occurred in the last week or so for most ISP's.

Hope this helps,
John G.

[Josh]

I'm a newbie, but maybe your ipchains is restricting access to your local network???

[Ted Clark]

I found the problem. It turns out to be a simple configuration error. In case anyone encounters a similar problem what happened with me was I accidentally left my Gateway setting as it was setup by default. It turns out e-smith likes to set itself as the Gateway when in my case it needed to be the public ip of the router. After correcting that I was able to see the primary web site from the internet....oops