Having an odd problem

[ai42]

Ok guys I just setup a small server for some personal stuff. I have a business class DSL with several static ips. Anyway I setup the server (http/ftp/dns).

The server appears to be running fine, all of my friends can hit it just fine. But I cannot hit it myself a tracert to the outside domain/ip fail. And the only way to access it is to the use the intranet ip but that dosen't work since almost all of the links and images run off the domain name.

Also when I resolve the domain the domain goes to the right ip so I am fairly confident that my isp has an updated dns record for my site.

Any ideas?

 

[Lord Evermore]

I presume you're using NAT for this setup. Unfortunately in many routers this prevents you accessing an internal server using its external IP. Some routers do have the ability to recognize where the traffic is coming from and going to and properly translate it, but many don't. What happens is the router doesn't properly translate the traffic, and the PC ends up seeing a response from the server's internal IP, and ignores it because it is expecting traffic from the external IP.

The easiest resolution if you have a few computers is to use the HOSTS file to point the domain names to the internal IP. Another option is running your own DNS server internally with that specific domain being set to the internal IP. There are a few other options as well.