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Zurotzis
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 Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: Setting up own server |
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| I was thinking of putting up an server on one of my computers but my friend says that u have to portforward some ports in the router for other people to access your server pupblic and not in a private network. I just woundering if any of u guys could help how to do it goes. I got two routers between my server computer and the modem, what is the best way to portfprward the routers and what ports. |
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Todd H.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: Setting up own server |
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no@spam.invalid (Zurotzis) writes:
| Quote: | I was thinking of putting up an server on one of my computers but my
friend says that u have to portforward some ports in the router for
other people to access your server pupblic and not in a private
network. I just woundering if any of u guys could help how to do it
goes. I got two routers between my server computer and the modem, what
is the best way to portfprward the routers and what ports.
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It's possible and even pretty straightforward. Your friends are
correct.
You need to do your homework though and decide exactly what services
you wish to be accessible from the internet and on what ports
(e.g. web server tcp/80 , ssh server tcp/22, remote desktop protocol
rdp tcp/3389). You'll also want to think long and hard to see if you
are willing to keep up with teh patching requirements of keeping a
server on the internet so that your internal network isn't compromised
quickly.
For example, if the box you want to run the server is 192.168.1.50 on
your LAN and you want to use it as a webserver, you install a
webserver on it that listens on tcp/80 then you'd need to tell your
router that you want to forward inbound tcp port 80 traffic to
192.168.1.50. Without such port forwarding entries, your router
simply rejects incoming connection requests.
Using a static IP on your internal LAN for the server you wish to use
is recommended. DHCP is problematic because you aren't guaranteed
that server will have the same address after reboots and you wouldn't
want traffic getting forwarded to the wrong machine.
Best Regards,
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Todd H.
http://toddh.net/ |
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$Bill
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:10 am Post subject: Re: Setting up own server |
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Todd H. wrote:
| Quote: | no@spam.invalid (Zurotzis) writes:
I was thinking of putting up an server on one of my computers but my
friend says that u have to portforward some ports in the router for
other people to access your server pupblic and not in a private
network. I just woundering if any of u guys could help how to do it
goes. I got two routers between my server computer and the modem, what
is the best way to portfprward the routers and what ports.
It's possible and even pretty straightforward. Your friends are
correct.
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Then there's always the problem that many/most ISPs don't allow you to
run a home server unless maybe you set up a business line that allows
for a server. |
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Todd H.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:19 am Post subject: Re: Setting up own server |
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"$Bill" <news@SPAMOLAtodbe.com> writes:
| Quote: | Todd H. wrote:
no@spam.invalid (Zurotzis) writes:
I was thinking of putting up an server on one of my computers but my
friend says that u have to portforward some ports in the router for
other people to access your server pupblic and not in a private
network. I just woundering if any of u guys could help how to do it
goes. I got two routers between my server computer and the modem, what
is the best way to portfprward the routers and what ports.
It's possible and even pretty straightforward. Your friends are
correct.
Then there's always the problem that many/most ISPs don't allow you to
run a home server unless maybe you set up a business line that allows
for a server.
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They usually don't technically disallow you from doing so, but you
bring up a good point -- you will want to consult the AUP (acceptable
use policy) of your ISP and verify that you aren't lining yourself up
for a hand slap.
Typically though, if your use is modest even home users seem to get
away with it without much of a problem. The average (l)users
compromised malware infested PC that's spewing spam onto the net or
serving up pron or warez will chew up a lot more upstream bandwidth
and causing more business impact to the ISP than some guy's
low-traffic intentionally configured home web server, or remote
access
Best Regards,
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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/ |
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DLR
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:14 am Post subject: Re: Setting up own server |
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Todd H. wrote:
| Quote: | Typically though, if your use is modest even home users seem to get
away with it without much of a problem. The average (l)users
compromised malware infested PC that's spewing spam onto the net or
serving up pron or warez will chew up a lot more upstream bandwidth
and causing more business impact to the ISP than some guy's
low-traffic intentionally configured home web server, or remote
access
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The problem is more and more folks like me (I run some business email
servers on business circuits with static IPs) will refuse to accept
email from him if it appears to come from a residential block of IP
addresses.
Now if he's serving up photos of Grandma's birthday party, well, that's
between him and his ISP as far as I'm concerned. |
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Zurotzis
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject: Re: Setting up own server |
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| well i have fixed the first box but the other one is a problem i use the right IP to access it with but nothing is happening in Firefox. Do anyone know how to fix this little problem? |
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Charles Newman
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 7:10 am Post subject: Re: Setting up own server |
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"Zurotzis" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I was thinking of putting up an server on one of my computers but my
friend says that u have to portforward some ports in the router for
other people to access your server pupblic and not in a private
network. I just woundering if any of u guys could help how to do it
goes. I got two routers between my server computer and the modem, what
is the best way to portfprward the routers and what ports.
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Be careful, for some reason, Comcast seems to have an odd policy
on servers now. I find that I serve my web page from my Comcast
account, but they block Tor nodes from accesing. If I try to access
through a Tor node, its blocked, but I can access through other
open proxies, I have no trouble making it work. Why would
Comcast block access to customers' residential accounts from anywhere
on Tor, but not from anywhere else? That seems odd that Comcast
would block incoming traffic from the Tor network, but not from
anywhere else. |
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Charles Newman
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 7:10 am Post subject: Re: Setting up own server |
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"$Bill" <news@SPAMOLAtodbe.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Todd H. wrote:
no@spam.invalid (Zurotzis) writes:
I was thinking of putting up an server on one of my computers but my
friend says that u have to portforward some ports in the router for
other people to access your server pupblic and not in a private
network. I just woundering if any of u guys could help how to do it
goes. I got two routers between my server computer and the modem, what
is the best way to portfprward the routers and what ports.
It's possible and even pretty straightforward. Your friends are
correct.
Then there's always the problem that many/most ISPs don't allow you to
run a home server unless maybe you set up a business line that allows
for a server.
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DSL companies are a lot more friendly towards this. Of course residential
DSL connections are a lot of more expensive than cable. I find that a 6 meg
DSL connection where I live costs a lot more than Comcast cable modem.
6 meg service, with a static address costs $94.95 a month from
The New AT&T, where Comcast, which rates in excess of 10 megabits
are about $50 a month. |
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Bill M.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: Setting up own server |
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:11:00 -0000, no@spam.invalid (Zurotzis) wrote:
| Quote: | well i have fixed the first box but the other one is a problem i use
the right IP to access it with but nothing is happening in Firefox. Do
anyone know how to fix this little problem?
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I doubt you'll get any meaningful help until you cough up some
details.
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Bill |
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Zurotzis
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: Re: Setting up own server |
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| Well i want to port forward my other router but when i try to find the config menu in firefox it does not work. |
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