No access to home server
- Thread starter witsok
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Richard G
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I don't know. Was it always like this or did you changed things there?
If you make port forwardings, you might be on the wrong page. A screenshot would give more clarity.
If the DA server is working on the local ip, the port forwarding from external should be from "anywhere" to the local ip, not from your router ip.
However, I didn't work yet with a DA server on a LAN. I know that the setup does most settings automatically, but I don't know how it's setup by means of ip addresses.
Are you planning on running your own domain name servers? I'm not a fan of doing that myself when I can depend on my registrar who will have a far more robust set up. I realize I am not as expert as others here, but this is some of the things I would try...
1 - make sure my DNS server is set up correctly and has propagated. I would use my registrar because this takes out a misconfiguration locally for the time being. Again, their servers will be more robust and you save resources too by not running your own DNS.
2- Use MXToolbox to see if there is anything misconfigured, those tools will also tell you if they cannot reach the site
3 - See if you can reach your server from another IP (like your phone's) I also think you can SSH using putty using a domain name too.
4 - If you're not able to reach the site, a firewall misconfiguration is the first candidate to check. I'm guessing you opened all of the ports DA recommends (I see you posted to that information earlier)
5 - Are you running any other firewall program? I run on Google Cloud and I had to open ports there, on the server itself and also in CSF (which I run). In your case you'd also need to check the router.
1 - make sure my DNS server is set up correctly and has propagated. I would use my registrar because this takes out a misconfiguration locally for the time being. Again, their servers will be more robust and you save resources too by not running your own DNS.
2- Use MXToolbox to see if there is anything misconfigured, those tools will also tell you if they cannot reach the site
3 - See if you can reach your server from another IP (like your phone's) I also think you can SSH using putty using a domain name too.
4 - If you're not able to reach the site, a firewall misconfiguration is the first candidate to check. I'm guessing you opened all of the ports DA recommends (I see you posted to that information earlier)
5 - Are you running any other firewall program? I run on Google Cloud and I had to open ports there, on the server itself and also in CSF (which I run). In your case you'd also need to check the router.