domain/IP + server problem (moreinfo)

[Paul Welty]

Since I'm otherwise dead in the water on this, I tried 2 more things.

1. Completely clean re-installed Frontier. Fresh copy, new setup and all
that, using the domain name (not the IP address). It did ask for the
password to do its port forward. But, it didn't work, viz. setup process
seems to hang up before the "it worked" shows up and browser reports
"connection failure". But, this is what I expected.

2. Completely clean re-installed Frontier, using the IP ADDRESS (not the
domain name). Didn't work in exactly the same way. But, this is NOT what I
expected. For, this exact process worked 2 days ago. But, now it doesn't.

So, it looks like things are going backwards.

My _only_ idea at this point is that something isn't getting set correctly
in the setup process and this is preventing Frontier functioning. But, I
have no idea what this is, even after search the archives and poking around
in all the various tables in Frontier itself.

As usual, any help is appreciated.

Paul


On 3/28/02 2:59 PM, "Paul Welty" <1pwelty at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Ken,
> 
> Thank very much for your reply and the suggestion.
> 
> I should say first of all that I have no idea how to get the port
> forwarded. I remember Frontier doing this once automatically
> when I re-did the setup, but I can't figure out how to get it to do it
> again (save reinstalling).
> 
> But, I tried to test this by going to port 8080. If the domain is
> working (I checked again using FileMaker on port 81), should I get
> something at 8080? Well, I didn't. Same problem, viz. browser just
> sits there and eventually times out.
> 
> So, one the one hand it might not be port forwarding and on the
> other hand I don't know how to fix it if it is.
> 
> Might someone have another idea? :)
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> From: Ken Dow <Me at KenDow.Com>
>> Date: 2002/03/28 Thu PM 12:27:46 EST
>> To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
>> Subject: Re: domain/IP + server problem
>> 
>> Paul ,
>> 
>> This should work fine, I do it all the time. Sounds like you're
> using 
>> port forwarding and forgot to forward to 80 after a restart? This
> has to 
>> be done each time Frontier is started.
>> 
>>> Yesterday, when I setup the server using the IP address only,
> it
>>> worked. Today, using the domain name, it doesn't. It also no
>>> longer works with the IP address.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Ken
>> 
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>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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