Accessing a hosted domain from behind a vt2442

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Jun 06, 2006 Posts: 2

I used to have an RTP300, which Vonage replaced with a Motorola VT2442 due to a hardware failure. I've got a box on my LAN that I use for web/ssh/ftp hosting and I've got a no-ip.com domain that points to my WAN IP address. When I access my domain from out on the Internet, my domain name works just fine and I can access all the servers. However, if I use that domain name to try and access the server from a computer on the LAN, nothing works. If I try to access a web domain, I can only get the router's configuration page. If I try to ssh to the server with the domain name, I end up connecting to the router's ssh server. So just to be clear, if I go to http://mydomain.no-ip.com from outside my LAN, it behaves as it should and I can access my site. But if I enter http://mydomain.no-ip.comfrom a computer on the LAN, all I can ever get is the router's configuration page. SSH behaves the same way.

I've got port forwarding set up properly, but this router is handling LAN generated traffic very differently from WAN traffic.

The RTP300 didn't do this. If I used the domain name from a LAN computer, I got forwarded to the right place.

Does anyone have any ideas how to get the vt2442 to behave like the RTP300 used to? Thanks in advance.

Posts: 646 · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject:

Just to get the discussion started... this link explains what the problem is, but the specific solution only applies when you're using Linux as a router:

http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO-10.html

I do find it interesting that the VT2442 has an SSH server... does that router run Linux? If so, maybe the link is more relevant than I thought.

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Jun 06, 2006 Posts: 2

Thanks for that link....At least I now understand WHY this is happening. I've temporarily solved the situation by putting a Linksys router in front of the VT2442 and running my LAN off of that, but it does mean that the QOS functions of the VT2442 are now meaningless.

I think that the VT2442 is running Linux, but I'm not entirely sure. Some of the output from setting up the port forwarding looked suspiciously like iptables rules. Hopefully over the weekend I'll have more time to dig into it and see if I can figure out what it is actually doing.

Posts: 171 · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject:

I have the VT2442 behind a LinkSys router that does not have QOS and it works fine for me. Someone once wrote on here that the phone adapters have enough to do, don't bother trying to let them be a router as well.

By the way, when you have voice mail, does the phone 1 and/or 2 light blink orange? Mine don't, but the manual claims they should.