Subj : Re: Server troubles??
To : Finnigann
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Jul 11 2006 11:52 am
Re: Re: Server troubles??
By: Finnigann to Digital Man on Tue Jul 11 2006 04:42 am
> -=> Without Duece's permission: Digital Man wrote to Finnigann <=-
>
> DM> Re: Re: Server troubles??
> DM> By: Finnigann to Digital Man on Mon Jul 10 2006 11:00 pm
>
> >
> > But if that's so, why do the links work for me?
>
> DM> If "for me" means, from the same computer or from another computer on
> DM> your local network, the answer should be obvious: because your ISP
> DM> isn't involved in your local network.
>
> >
http://bnb.synchro.net and bnb.dtdns.net both work fine here...
>
> DM> I'm not sure where exactly "here" is.
>
> From the same machine as the BBS sits on.
>
> But doesn't the page call have to go out to a DNS machine and then back
> to me? Unless there is a HOSTS file, that is. (There isn't one)
Yes, but all that does is resolve the hostname to an IP address. Your browser
will then connect to port 80 on that IP address, which is the same computer the
server is on, so the ISP isn't involved.
> If I were using localhost as an address, I wouldn't expect it to even
> need to be connected to the internet at all. (But that's not the case
> either)
>
> Clearly something is at work here that I don't fully understand.
Your ISP isn't blocking outbound DNS requests. That much is clear. But has
nothing to do with whether or not they're blocking inbound port 80 requests.
digital man
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