Re: IIS/firewall problem

Nick
Date: 08/29/05 

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:00:00 +0100

>> I have also opened port 80 on our firewall so that it is open for the
source
>> as the internal LAN web server IP and the destination as "*".

Shoudnt that be the other way around? source as "*", destination as internal
LAN web server IP?

But also note the firewall might not see the destination as internal LAN web
server IP because of the NAT. Trying allowing port 80 traffic in to the
external IP from anywhere. 

-- 
:: nick dell
:: programming & hosting
:: www.blnk.co.uk
"Jase" <jase@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:PFJPe.1266$kE2.586@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
> Hi,
>
> I have set up a web site which runs off one of our internal web servers.
> Everything works fine when I try to access the site from within our
network
> but unfortunately it doesn't work at all when I try to access it over the
> internet - I get "Cannot find server" error page.
>
> I have configured NAT so that one of our external IP addresses points to
the
> internal IP address of the server - I know this is working because I have
> accessed other services on that server externally. I have also purchased a
> domain name and have configured its A record to point to the server's
> external IP address. I have configured the host header name in IIS to the
> domain name.
>
> I have also opened port 80 on our firewall so that it is open for the
source
> as the internal LAN web server IP and the destination as "*".
>
> I'm almost totally sure it's a firewall issue because:
>
> 1) It works fine internally within our network
> 2) It still doesn't work when I add the domain name and external IP to my
> Hosts file (therefore it won't be a domain issue)
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem could be? Do I
only
> have to open port 80 for IIS?
>
> TIA.
>
>

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