Can't access my web server

[JoeHill]

Lennart Sorensen wrote: 

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:47:27AM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> > 
> > Up until recently I could access my web server no problem, now I get
> > 'connection refused'. My site is out of date and quite lame, but it does
> > come in handy for other things once in awhile, like sharing stuff that is
> > too big to be sent via e-mail.
> > 
> > Of course, the correct port is forwarded, and as far as I can tell the DNS
> > is correct. I use Zonedit to maintain the resolution, but now I have a
> > static IP so that hasn't been all that necessary to update.
> > 
> > One thing I notice is that when I try a ping, it shows the correct IP, but
> > it looks like something in the name Teksavvy uses might be interfering:
> >   
> > [joehill at node1:~>$]ping freeyourmachine.org  
> > PING freeyourmachine.org (206.248.172.54) 56(84) bytes of data.
> > 64 bytes from 206-248-172-54.dsl.teksavvy.com (206.248.172.54): icmp_seq=1
> > ttl=64 time=1.15 ms 
> > 
> > --- freeyourmachine.org ping statistics ---
> > 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5016ms
> > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.599/1.401/3.218/0.973 ms
> > 
> > Am I correct in thinking that the problem is the
> > '206-248-172-54.dsl.teksavvy.com'? If so, how would I correct that?  
> 
> The reverse DNS has nothing to do with your webserver.  No problem
> there.
> 
> Can you telnet from another outside machine to port 80 on your IP and
> get a connection?  If not then either your firewall or your ISP is
> blocking access to port 80 or your firewall isn't forwarding it in (or
> back out) correctly. 

That was it exactly, though it was not the firewall's 'fault'. I had somehow
set it to forward the port using UDP, which for some weird reason does not work
too well with HTTP ;)

Perhaps I'll submit an RFC to have that changed...hee hee.

Thanks!

-- 
JoeHill
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