Re: Web server access
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 17:52:55 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> > The server is on the LAN side of the router (192.168.1.65). It's
> > not in the DMZ. My server isn't running Apache ACLs or iptables or
> > TCP wrapper. The router is running a firewall. I've forwarded
> > WAN-side ports 23, 80 and 443 to my server, and another non-22
> > WAN-side port to port 22 on my server.
> >
> > I can view pages from my server on itself or other computers in my
> > house using 192.168.1.65 (the LAN side of the router), but not
> > 47.229.8.99 (the WAN side of the router).
>
> OK, so just to be clear:
>
> 1) Your internal computer is running a web server on ports 80 and 443.
> 2) Your internal computer's IP address is 192.168.1.65.
> 3) Your router's external IP address is 47.229.8.99.
> 4) You've told your router to forward port 80 to 192.168.1.65 port 80.
>
> > Maybe my server isn't listening for telnet. I installed telnet and
> > telnetd, but "systemctl start telnetd" said there's no such thing.
>
> DO NOT install telnetd!!
>
> OK, with that out of the way:
>
> hobbit:~$ telnet 47.229.8.99 80
> Trying 47.229.8.99...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host
>
> I cannot reach your router's external IP address from here. You'll
> want to verify that this is the correct IP adderss, and if it is,
> figure out why it can't be routed-to from the outside world.
>
$ telnet 47.229.8.99 80
Trying 47.229.8.99...
Connected to 47.229.8.99.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET index.html
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:00:16 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.62 (Debian)
Content-Length: 304
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>400 Bad Request</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Bad Request</h1>
<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not
understand.<br /> </p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.4.62 (Debian) Server at blue.vsnyder Port 80</address>
</body></html>
Connection closed by foreign host.
dhoworth@acer-suse:~/finance/ripple$ ping 47.229.8.99
PING 47.229.8.99 (47.229.8.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 47.229.8.99 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2042ms
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