Running a website in an internal network...HELP!!

[brandoman]

Let me preface....I do not know very much about networking. What I have done so far I have managed to learn from the web...now I need more help.

I am trying to run a website from my computer here at my apartment. It is a T1 connection in our apt complex...we are all netwroked together. I am running Win2k with IIS installed. My website can be viewed from inside the network...but not by my friends down the street. The Administrator here says he cannot offer me help but that we are NOT behind a firewall. And somewhere down the line, there is NAT implementation?? He says it can be done...but only if I figure it out myself. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks and God bless....
Brandon Lewis

 

[CTR]

If there is NAT between you and the Internet, you need a static translation on the NAT device to map your webserver to a public ip/port.

 

[Garion]

Tell us what your IP address is - This will help us figure out how you're connected to the Internet. Actually, we don't need the entire IP address - Just the first three digits are fine - That way you can keep things private.

To get it, go to a command prompt and enter "ipconfig".

- G

 

[JackMDS]

http://www.iisfaq.com/

 

[brandoman]

IP: 172.16.xxx.xxx

 

[CTR]

So your admin will let you into the router or server or whatever is doing the NAT and you can change whatever you want? Ummm, okay I guess that is cool. Find out what it is and get access to it, since certainly there are more than a few people on this forum that can tell you exactly what to do.

 

[brandoman]

Well, I don't think that I have access to it. He said that others have set up webites. And that's it. However, if the only way to do this thing is to get access to the "router or server or whatever is doing the NAT" then I will look into getting that info. But that just doesn't seem likely. Is there any other info?
Brando

Sterling University Housing(SUH) is my ISP

 

[Garion]

OK.. 172.16.x.x is a "RFC1918" address, which means that it's set aside for private use OFF of the Internet behind a firewall. Other RFC1918 addresses are 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x (actually, 172.16.x.x - 172.31.x.x are in the range).

This means that your network admin is not giving you the straight scoop. You might not be behind a firewall but there's some device between you and the Internet that's converting your "private" addresses into "public" addresses that can be sent across the Internet. This is usually done by a firewall, but can be done by a router such as the Linksys or the SMC Barricade that is discussed on this forum in depth.

So, bad news is that it probably can't happen without help from your admin, and I doubt if he will do it. Good news is that there's other ways to get your website out on the Internet. There's a million places that will let you setup your own website on their webservers. www.homestead.com is one example that will do the trick for you. Pretty easy to setup, too.

- G