I am a bit tired of 'Localhost'

[Edvard Korsbaek]

After som tries, I am able to make some quite effective nettalk servers.
Problem is to use them....
I can get the outside IP adress with www.myip.dk.
I have a server at a hosting compagny, where i have one nettalk server using port 80. Runs OK.
But last evening I made a new server that should put my vife's art club on the net.
Tried both port 80 and port 88 - Both timed out.
Situation her is, that we have two standard PC's on a 8MB Internet connection. (Windows XP pro).

I know its trivial knowledge about setting up routers etc., but pls. share it with me.

Edvard Korsbæk

[Bruce]

Hi Edvard,

You need to set your router (Adsl router?) to allow incoming connections.

In other words the IP address you see at myip.dk, is not the IP address of your computer. It is the IP address of your _router_. (You can prove this by going to more than 1 machine on your lan, and going to that web site. Notice they all return the _same_ ip address, the address of your _router_.)

So (typically) using your browser, go to your router setup, and set incoming connections on port 80, to be routed to the specific machine on your lan where the program is running.

Cheers
Bruce

[Wolfgang Orth]

Edvard,

as Bruce described, open the ports (80 or similar) on your router to allow access from the outside. Take care if remote administration is turned on, that the ports do not interfere!

There is a great article on ClarionMagazine using an Apache webserver as a reverse proxy so you can host several Nettalk-server on one machine at your home/office and make them all accessible from the outside. (http://clarionmag.com/cmag/v9/v9n02proxy.html)
You can now get some adresses at dynamic DNS-service-provider, sounding like artclub.dyndns.org pointing to your computer, no matter what IP you have the other day. Very handy.

In the meantime I have nearly a dozend server running simultaniously on the same machine, each one with its own external address.

hth
Wolfgang