Topic: How to find given IP address.

[Paul]

Ok Here is the situation.

I have e-smith up and running.
I am using Rogers @ home service and the computers can get to the internet as well as view the www web page.
How do i view this web page from an ouside browser???
Where can I find the IP address...
The e-smith server signs on to the ISP with the account name.
When I use the command ifconfig, it gives me an IP address, but its not the right one??? confused???
When I don't use the e-smith machine and connect my windows directly to rogers I get an Ip address thats different tooo. But when I connect
the e-smith server back and try this Ip address.. Still no luck.....
It seems no matter what IP address I use, I cannot get into FTP or the web page from an outside source.
I did the remote settings correctly as well.
Any suggestions....

Paul

[Darren]

what type of connection do you have i.e static or dynamic
if it is dynamic everytime you connect it will have a different ip address.
you can setup web addresses to work with dynamic addresses. one such company is www.dyndns.org which alot of people seem to use.
if you want to see what your current ip address go to
http://ipcheck.info/
it will tell you your current ip address.
Good Luck
p.s Remember if you have a dynamic address every time the machine restarts you are allocated a new ip address.

[Paul]

Just to clarify.
My ISP uses dynamic addressing, however a new IP is assigned only once in awhile... when there are load balancing the their server.
The strange part is I knows the IP address. When I log into my ISP from windows instead of e-smith, I get the same IP address everytime.
The problem is trying to connect to the e-smith machine from an outside source.
It won't work...
When I look at the ethernet settings on the NICs, it seems that
e-smith is gabbing and assigning the wrong IP address....

[jules]

just in case... your windows clients will only have a 'fake' ip address when connecting through e-smith - one that they use on your local network. only the NIC in the e-smith machine that's attached to the cable modem gets the real ip address, and you can find that out (from your windows client) by visiting the e-smith-manager (www.yourlocaldomain.xxx/e-smith-manager) and clicking on 'review configuration' - then look at the 'External IP address'

if you know all that, then sorry. it could be that Rogers blocks HTTP requests - trying to connect to your server's real IP from an external machine along port 80 (or port 21 [for ftp]). Rogers (like most cable and DSL providers) doesn't want people hosting high-traffic warez sites from home, slowing down their service for everyone in the neighborhood. they just expect you to surf and collect email.

[Quade]

I've had the same problem. Go here for a possible fix and a brief explanation of what's happening

http://e-smith.org/bboard/read.php?v=t&f=3&i=11311&t=11191

[Paul]

One thing I have to say. Since all the mess ups I have been running into with e-smith, I am learning a lot about Linux.
I found that out when I was going through settings. The IP address was wrong and gateway as well...
So right now it is on static...
Have you found a solution yet?

[Quade]

Well, theoretically, we may need to change the init order so that the server is able to pull a dynamic IP address before it tries to write the configuration files, though I'm not sure what order things should be in, and what side-effects that would have on the server.

I've used e-smith since 3.0, and I have to say it's come a long way, but it's always been good to me unless I try and make it do something that it wasn't intended to do. And since Comcast isn't using a standard DHCP system (after their switch from @Home), using e-smith to serve pages from the cable line is a little tricky.

But as the first rule of computer science says, nothing ever works right the first time.

If anyone has any suggestions as to a preferred order in this scenario, I'd love to hear it. I think my weekend will involve hours cuddled up with a good O'Rielly book or maybe staring at linuxdocs.org until I get this worked out.