[ale] Accessing Server without Domain Name

[Geoffrey]

Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> The traffic from the internet needs a way to get to the internal box. The
> Router/Firewall doesn't automatically know what kind of servers are
> running behind it, so you have to forward port 80 to the actual webserver
> using whatever provisions are inside the Router/Firewall. 
> 
> Typing the IP address in a web browser should work fine on the same
> network as the webserver, however.

I think not, as the webserver has probably got a dynamic ip provided by 
the router.  Placing the ip in the browser inside his network would 
still make a request to the router, in which case, it still wouldn't 
know where to forward the request.

> 

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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