Re: Netgear RT314 Router- how can I see my served pages from inside my network?

From: James Brost (kb2wdi@hotmail.com)
Date: 06/29/02 

From: James Brost <kb2wdi@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 03:52:07 GMT

Suggestion;

Try adding to the "hosts" file.

192.168.0.2 www.somedomain.com
192.168.0.2 www.otherdomain.com

The local machine (hopefully) will use this IP address before doing a DNS
lookup.

If the internal network is large, you could manually add them to a caching
DNS server inside the network. 

--

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:01:37 -0400, Sara wrote:

> This is strange. From inside my 192.168.0.x net, I hit the RT314 with
> 192.168.0.1 and botta-bing the challenge comes up for the admin user &
> pw. Duckie. Then I put in the IP or domain name of one of the sites I
> serve up and dammit- the same challenge comes up.It doesn't forward.
> 
> I had a Ugate router prior to this router (which I may put back in
> service if I can't solve this problem), and it worked perfectly -
> 192.168.0.1 brought up the admin page, and the URLs of my served sites
> brought up the individual site pages. The individual sites come up fine
> from OUTSIDE my 192.168.0.x network.
> 
> I called Netgear and talked to the service tech. I appreciate the fact
> that they actually have people I can talk to, but unfortunately he
> offered no assistance other than to say that this router doesn't support
> what I'm trying to do.
> 
> I find that hard to believe. There must be some way I can set up a
> static route or some other means to convince the RT314 that I'm coming
> in from outside? How could anyone do web development in this
> environment? I can't put the internal IP address into the browser
> because Apache is set up for name-based virtual site serving.
> 
> The other part of this that doesn't make sense is that I must be going
> outside my net to hit my served pages, because I use an IP resolver
> service that redirects to my current dynamic IP. SO why does this
> traffic look different (internal) to the RT314?
> 
> Suggestions are most welcome!
> 
> Gx

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