Newbie: Router won't let me get to my server(DYNDNS)

[Kevin Darcy]

"Michael H." wrote:

> OK thanks for the help on this...
>
> Well now I set the DNSUpdate client to External, so now my DNS names
> 'elba.dyndns.org' and 'taoki.org' are bound to my router
> address(64.231.161.144, probably will change by the time you read
> this) as viewed by my DNSUpdate client.
>
> The taoki.org server is still set to 192.168.0.10 internally and I
> have it in a DMZ.
>
> but when I ping 'taoki.org' from inside the network, I get
>
>      64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=2.09 ms
>
> this is the internal address of my router. Is this correct?

Yes, that would have to be an internal address, since the whole 192.168/16 net is a
"private", non-Internet-routable net (see RFC 1918 for details).

> I also can't connect to 0.10(the data at least) by typing 'taoki.org'
> in my web browser..I don't understand what I'm doing wrong...
>
> In my console I get this too:
>
>      Dec 20 20:16:22 localhost lookupd[186]: Can't communicate with
> ypbind

Neither "lookupd" nor ypbind are likely to have anything directly to do with BIND.

> Could somebody please try to ping it/beat it up from outside my
> network?

Both elba.dyndns.org and taoki.org resolve to 64.230.96.36 at this time. I'm not sure what
pinging it or "beat[ing] it up" would prove...


- Kevin

>
> mykelkim34 at hotmail.com (Michael H.) wrote in message news:<9vok5s$bpu at pub3.rc.vix.com>...
> > After setting up my router(DI-704) for my DSL connection, I set my
> > server to a static LAN address of 192.168.0.10. I set it up as a DMZ
> > in the router software.
> >
> > The router maintains a connection on my PPPoE account, and I have my
> > DYNDNS client pointing to my server(as elba.dyndns.org among others).
> > The client(DNSUpdate 2.2) reports all interfaces OK.
> >
> > From my server, if I type ping elba.dyndns.org, I get DNS resolution(I
> > set my router as it's DNS server, 192.168.0.1) it pings with very
> > short ping times...so far so good.
> >
> > But when I try to access my server via a web browser from off-site,
> > 139.57.XXX.XXX,(yes, I'm sure that the server is working)there's no
> > response. I try
> >
> > ping elba.dyndns.org
> >
> > from a command-line(Darwin Unix) and I get:
> >
> > PING elba.dyndns.org (192.168.0.10): 56 data bytes
> >
> > then I wait a bit, and when I hit CTRL-C, I get something along the
> > lines of
> >
> > 9 packets sent, 0 received, 100% packet loss.
> >
> > why can't I get any data back from the computer, even though it seems
> > to be able to find the computer?
> >
> > It seems like the DNS is not resolving, but how did it know that
> > 192.168.0.10 is my server? So if it can get there, why can't I get to
> > my data? I think it's a configuration problem with my Dyndns client,
> > but I'm not sure what....
> >
> > thanks in advance for any help on this...
> >
> > regards,
> > Michael