[TriLUG] apache cable modem woes

[Jeremy P]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, r.wheaton wrote:

> Hello,
>     I recently just moved out to Colorado from north carolina, and have 
> been taking a lot of pictures with my dig. camera.  I have been posting 
> them on my delegated 10MB through my AT&T cable modem account.  Well, 
> that space has run dry.  And, what i'd like to do is just host them 
> straight off my cable modem.  I've noticed that my IP doesn't change 
> that much, and with the help of dyndns.org it seems like the best way 
> for my friends and family back home to see my pics.  Well, I got it all 
> set up, and I can see it fine, but no one outside of AT&T can.  Is AT&T 
> blocking this traffic somehow??  I read on their site that they don't 
> want you to host any type of server, but this seems kind of ridiculous. 

Hi,

When you say that people from outside "cannot get" to your web server, 
what exactlty does that mean?  You'll need to troubleshoot what the exact 
problem is.  For example, is DNS working (name resolves to your correct IP 
address)?  Can the IP address be pinged (this assumes ICMP isn't being 
blocked somwhere)?  What happens when you attempt a raw HTTP connection 
("telnet 127.0.0.1 80" where 127.0.0.1 is the IP address) ?  

--Jeremy