dynDNS Sending All Trafic To My Router Login

[Flyboy917]

DynDNS is sending everything to my router logon page. (sorry currently dissabled for the currious types). I want to set it up for FTP. There doesn't seem to by anything at DynDNS to do such a thing. Am I missing something in the router setup pages?

[AndyGreen]

Something sounds a bit wrong about your description of your problem. You do realize that you cannot see things the same way as everyone else on the internet from behind your network? Your router may well return your router config page for requests made to its IP *from behind your network*, acting differently on the basis you are local. Other people coming to your IP are likely to see something completely different.

A neat trick to see what the outside sees at your IP is to use altavista translate.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Type your IP into "Translate a Webpage" like this:

http://123.123.123.123

and select, say, English to Dutch.

The Altavista server will then fetch from your IP like a remote user would with his browser, and you will be shown what he would see (except in Dutch, but that's not a problem).

[Flyboy917]

Sounds like a good trick, but no I haven't tried it. Yes, I figured I was seeing inside in, but there has got to be a better way of testing your server configs from outside the local network...no?

[raghavendra]

Hi
This might also happen if you do not have a publically visible ip.

[AndyGreen]

What would be better about an alternative way? To truly test the path from outside to your server you have to fire packets in from outside. That means control of another server elsewhere on the Internet. If you don't have one of your own, you need to use what resources are available and under your control, and altavista is both available and under your control. The only thing that would be better is if they had a "no translate" option, but they don't know that would be more useful to some people than all their hard work doing the translations ;-)