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[Internet] Melbourne, FL - Ports Blocked

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reply to tedbro
Okay you are properly bridged now and we do NOT block any ports. Did you place your computer in the DMZ on the router or the modem? Should be the router

reply to tedbro
BTW I got right through to your IP on port 80:

It works!
This is the default web page for this server.

The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.

Now please go up and edit your post..remove the IP and MAC address.
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Yep placed in the DMZ in the router...thanks for testing so quickly. Did you change anything?

reply to tedbro
No sir...I promise didn't touch a thing

A reminder to all users who ask for support. When others such as myself subscribe to the BHN forum emails for every post that gets posted on the site, please ensure the IP address is not listed. Even though it can be edited here, it still shows up in the large mass email it sends out to those who are subscribed to receive those emails through the forums. Just a friendly reminder
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More accurately:

NEVER post any personally identifying information on a PUBLIC forum - unless you want it out there forever.

That includes things like IP addresses, MAC addresses, email addresses, etc. etc.

And it has less to do with the few people that might subscribe to a forum and get an email, and more to do with search engines (Google?) and spambots.

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Geez just trying to be helpful. Thanks for the extra info though.

It was helpful! I wasn't critiquing your comments - just adding additional thoughts.
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reply to sambowomble
I've never understood the objections to posting of IP address, especially with the number of port scans & ICMP request I receive each day on the network. In addition, once someone has your IP address it's relative easy to obtain the MAC address and figure out what type of router or device is connected to the public IP, and if that device has any open security exploits.

Email and other personal identifiable information I understand, but the posted public IP addresses are just that, public addresses.

You're far better off making sure all security updates are applied to your router / computer than simply not publishing your IP address.
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I agree with you, but we believe that there's no reason to make it easier than it has to be.

Whenever someone posts that information in a public forum, if mods are alerted to it - we either edit out the information, or hold the post (hide it) to allow the user to make the edits.

"Safe computing" (security updates, etc.) are certainly equally important, if not more important.
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reply to tedbro
So I'm still testing this and have some more questions. I can access port 80 from outside my network (vpn'd to my corporate network), however if I just try to use my Public IP address I can't. Any suggestions?

Sorry to bother you guys with this...I've never had a problem using port forwarding with the RR turbo service, but ever since I've upgraded to Lightning, I can't get things back to normal.

So I have a Linux box setup with ssh running and access it for work. Since I work from home 90% of the time I set my Putty client to my external IP address so I can access this machine even if I go work in the office or if I go to Starbucks. So accessing these ports are fine when I'm out but when I get home, I can't. I have to switch to my local ip address of the machine 192.168.*.*

reply to tedbro
You are bridged so this is an issue with your router and loopback. There may be a setting in the router that will fix this.