Re: IIS/firewall problem

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:24:38 +1200

Port 80 is all you need for HTTP traffic, and 443 if you use SSL, I think
your firewall is still the problem. I would check the firewall logs and see
what you find there.

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Chris
Chris Crowe [IIS MVP]
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"Jase" <jase@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 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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