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I run a personal weather station http://www.farnhamweather.co.uk which has a webcam. This has been running fine for several months and I was able to access the webcam from work, friends houses and at home. Last week my router was upgraded from a BT home hub 1 to a BT home hub 3. I did port forwarding so that the webcam has port 8090 forwarded. Now I find that I can see the webcam from work and friends houses but when I try from home IE8 gives error "Internet Explorer could not connect to http://farnhamweather.dyndns-remote.com:8090". It seems that the http://farnhamweather.dyndns-remote.com:8090 address is being blocked, possibly by the router. The details of my setup are as follows:-
The port forwarding simply adds from port 8090 to port 8090. I can access the webcam internally using the webcams config software, so I guess the problem is my dyndns site is being blocked somewhere. I have tried disabling the router firewall and the windows XP firewall but the problem persists. All info welcome |
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That's all fine, and I can reach your "Real-time IP Camera Monitoring System" without problems. So nothing is being blocked, not by your router or otherwise. When you're saying "but when I try from home" do you mean from within the same network where your weather station / webcam service is? Please note that many routers do not support loopback connections / NAT reflection, and your new router seems to belong to this group. If you want or need to use also your DynDNS hostname from inside your network, you can add a line to the client computers' hosts files like: |
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Excellent answer, I added the line to the hosts file and it now works ! Many thanks |