I have a domain name but can't view out of internal network

[scannerdarkly]

Ok so pretty much I'm not sure why i can't view my site when i'm out of my internal network. anybody have any suggestions?

[Iowan]

Is the router port-forwarding to the server?
IS there a router (and/or firewall)?

[scannerdarkly]

yea i have the port routed as far as the firewall i'm gonna have to check it out

[gmclachl]

If your router is running NAT then you will have problems viewing an internal site using an external address.

I kind of got round it by adding the external domain to the hosts file on my other local machines.

George

[scannerdarkly]

well i've done a little configurating, but can't tell if that fixed the problem if you guys could try http://razorbladex401.homelinux.com tell me if you see anything. if not then i got a little bit of work to do.

[The_Apprentice]

Surely this is an external DNS error.

Sorry if this is a "suck eggs" answer.....

In order to reach your site from outside your nextwork you need to resolve your domain name to an IP address.

So, in a jutshell if you go to http://ubuntuforums.org your browser checks with the computer for what DNS servers it is supposed to be using.
It then sends a request to thr Primary DNS server requesting the IP address for http://ubuntuforums.org.
The DNS server should return 82.211.81.186

The HTTP request will then be sent to that IP address, where the web server should pick it up and return the page(s).

There are two solutions......
1. Ensure that the DNS record for you domain points to the external IP address of your server (probably the IP address you get from your ISP on your router)
2. Create an entry in the host file of the external pc to resolve the IP address for you.

[scannerdarkly]

alright well i just tried something else could somebody check it out. sorry i'm gonna be doing some configurations so i might ask a bit for people to check it out. thanks for you guy's help

http://razorbladex401.homelinux.com

[The_Apprentice]

I am getting "Connection Refused"

The IP address for razorbladex401.homelinux.com is resolving to 68.100.16.25
Is that the correct IP address?

[peanut butter]

try putting you apache on port 81. I dont have Cox so I dont know but they might block port 80.

EDIT: you could use a web proxy such as blockmenot.com to check if it works from the outside.

[scannerdarkly]

Originally Posted by peanut butter try putting you apache on port 81. I dont have Cox so I dont know but they might block port 80. EDIT: you could use a web proxy such as blockmenot.com to check if it works from the outside.

i used blockmenot.com like you suggested and at first i got a connection failed, now after i changed a few things i'm getting a connection timed out.