Need help with DDNS

[Corbett]

So ive recently set up DDNS and now when I go he the domain name I chose for myself in internet explorer it brings up the login informaiton for my router. It asks for my username and password for my router! Ahh!

I cant figure out how to get it forward to something else, such as, an ftp server as the default rather than my router login screen. Can anyone help?

Do I just need to have port 80 in my router forward to my local ip address?

Thanks

 

[ojai00]

You're probably getting your router admin page because your router admin page is listening on port 80. You'll have to change that if you decide to run a web server.

To access FTP, you'll have to set up port forwarding to forward port 21 on the router to the computer that you're running your FTP server on. To access it, type in your DDNSname:21. Hope this helps.

 

[mooseracing]

Yea go into the router and look for NAT or port fowarding options page.

Put in the machine local IP and the port you want fwd'd to. example your web server is 192.x.x.2 port 80

FTP is 192.x.x.2 (or another machine) 21

You can also do any port you want it doesn't have to be specific. But if you don't do a random one remeber that when you try to conenct as you will have to define that in your connections settings. Like when I do RDP i use a custom port as I have many RDP computers on one router. So in RDP box i type myname.dynds.org:3387 to get to my machine

Also on my Netgear before it was slightly different. I first had to make a custom service, then add it to the rules list.

Alot of times you can serach the internet with your router model and also what you want to do and find it. for example: netgear FR114RP port fowarding


good luck

 

[FLegman]

Im having the same type of problem with my FTP server that i could only reach within the Lan and not the Wan.
Here below is my current set up, hopefully someone could give a hand to sort it out and make it work from the internet.

1.>My 2 computers connected (wireless) to a linksys (Wrt54GL with factory settings, Firmware 4.30.7) which is also connected to a Modem
2.>The automatic DHCP on the router is enabled and Ip range is 192.168.1.100/120
3.>The computer with the FTP server (server-u V 6.0.4) has got fixed ip address 192.168.1.12 and could flawlessly connect to the internet
4.>From the linksys GUI page>>Applications & Gaming>>Port Range Forward i set an entry for the ftp server and forwarded port 21/Tcp to the machine hosting the server (192.168.1.12)
5.>I registered at DynDns and get a xxx.dns.org domain address
6.>In the linksys GUI page>>Setup>>DDNS, i enabled DynDns.org service and provided my xxx.dns.org address in the Host Name field
7.>In the Server-U administration page>>Domains, i put the name and ip address (192.168.1.12) of the computer hosting the server

With the above settings, i could type in any of my browsers <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="ftp://xxx.dns.org">ftp://xxx.dns.org</a> and get to my server. However when people from distance try that same address, they get a time out message from their browser.

NB: a) my Modem is a Modem/Router and both Router & DHCP features are still enabled
b) in the linksys GUI page>>Status>>Internet, the ip address stated is 192.168.0.3 which is derived from the Modem DHCP automatic ip assignment.

Thank you for your reaction & help.

Edit Point: Good Lord i forgot to mention that i have ZA firewall running on and i granted full access to the Ftp Server.