[TriLUG] apache cable modem woes

[Jon Carnes]

Hay Ryan!

Sounds to me like AT&T is only allowing in Ack'ed TCP packets...  Either
that or they are smart enough to block 8080 and 80!  Try a more creative
port...

Jon

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 14:18, Jeremy P wrote:
> 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
> 
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