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• 06-16-2009, 12:00 PM

  Ed Jobe Joined on 01-15-2009, 3:45 AM Posts 6

  Site access from LAN, but not web Reply Contact Hello, I have set up IIS on MS Server 2008 which is part of a workgroup at home, not a domain. The server is also a dns server. I can access the default site from the server using localhost and from other pc's on the lan using the fqdn of the server, but I can't see it from the web. My gateway firewall is set to allow the server access. I can ping my domain from outside my home. What am I missing.

• 06-16-2009, 9:59 PM

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  lextm Joined on 10-22-2008, 12:18 AM Shanghai, PRC Posts 1,412

  Re: Site access from LAN, but not web Reply Contact I guess your domain is registered with the firewall's IP. Am I right? Then did you create a rule on the firewall to redirect HTTP traffic from its port 80 to the IIS server port 80? Otherwise, your IE at home cannot connect to the IIS server actually. Well, that's really a firewall configuration issue and you need to gain some knowledge about the firewall you use. Lex Li Support Engineer at Microsoft --------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

• 06-16-2009, 11:07 PM

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  Ed Jobe Joined on 01-15-2009, 3:45 AM Posts 6	Re: Site access from LAN, but not web Reply Contact Thank you for your response. I'm not sure I understand your comment about registering the domain with the firewall ip. If you are talking about binding, the bindings for Default Web Site has port 80 mapped to my domain. I checked the firewall log and the server is responding on port 80. Rules were automatically created for HTTP and HTTPS.

• 06-17-2009, 10:29 AM

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  Ed Jobe Joined on 01-15-2009, 3:45 AM Posts 6	Re: Site access from LAN, but not web Reply Contact Ed Jobe: the bindings for Default Web Site has port 80 mapped to my domain.  At the time I wrote the above, I had just changed it and it wasn't working from home, but today it working from outside. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction even if you weren't talking about bindings.

• 06-17-2009, 9:34 PM

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  lextm Joined on 10-22-2008, 12:18 AM Shanghai, PRC Posts 1,412	Re: Site access from LAN, but not web Reply Contact If so, I guess your changes to DNS in fact is the root cause. It can take a long time for those DNS changes to sync over the internet, and that's why it suddenly works now. Lex Li Support Engineer at Microsoft --------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.