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How can I know my computer IP

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Joyo2002

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Hi,

I am using Road Runner as my ISP. A NetGear 314 router is behind the cable mode to assign the dynamic ip for three computers. One computer is a server using Windows server 2000. My question is,

If I want to host a Web server on my server, how can I know the IP address which assiged by Road Runner. How can I access my homepage on the server from outside.

Thanks

 
There are few ways to do it.

The most "Elegant" is this very nice free proggie that tells you both your LAN, and WAN addresses (and even copies it for you).

Link: Tell me My IPs.
 
There's another way to approach this. Instead of tracking your IP manually and doing it that way, register with a service like dyndns.org that will provide a free dynamic DNS service. Install a client on your PC and register with them, and you'll never have to remember an IP again - Just go to yourhostname.dyndns.org and you'll always get to the right place.

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Originally posted by: Garion
There's another way to approach this. Instead of tracking your IP manually and doing it that way, register with a service like dyndns.org that will provide a free dynamic DNS service. Install a client on your PC and register with them, and you'll never have to remember an IP again - Just go to yourhostname.dyndns.org and you'll always get to the right place.

- G
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Originally posted by: Joyo2002
Hi,

I am using Road Runner as my ISP. A NetGear 314 router is behind the cable mode to assign the dynamic ip for three computers. One computer is a server using Windows server 2000. My question is,

If I want to host a Web server on my server, how can I know the IP address which assiged by Road Runner. How can I access my homepage on the server from outside.

Thanks
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To access the webserver from the outside you will also need to enable port forwarding on your netgear router. You will need it to direct requests to port 80 to your server machine.
For exactly how to do this you will have to look in the docs for your Netgear router.

To find your IP address of your w2k machine you can use
ipconfig /all

To find the WAN IP of your Netgear you can do:
tracert www.yahoo.com

This will tell you the IP addresses of everything in the path between you and yahoo, the first one in the list will be your netgear.
 
garion has assumed you know about domains & dns. if you did you may know about dyndns.org, but that's unlikely since you run win2k server.

if you're new to webserving, no offense, i recommend you read at least one of the below guides:

DSL/Cable Server

DIY Webserver

DIY Webserver coincidentally shows your WAN IP at the top🙂
 
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