Any help on this

I need help badly. I cant access my site since i am on a router and cable modem. When i type in 127.0.0.1 index page opens, but when i type in www.mydomainname.net it searches for like 20-30 seconds then get page cant be displayed.
Tried config router to port forwarding put in name--web server 80 to 80 tcp and enable, still not working. I am using Apache software and Directupdate for IP address. Only reason have DirectUpdate because i was on dialup and everything work fine. Not sure what to do from here, Please someone give me an idea.

Thanks

does your domain name resolve to the public IP address of your server?

Not sure what you mean, Im a newbie to this. Really all i can tell you is , when i was on dialup and installed DirectUpdate for ip changing that everything worked. Really confused on setting this up with router and cable modem. I know when i do a nslookup this is what comes up Default Server ns**attbi.com
Address 63.240.xxx.xxx
Now when i do an ipconfig/all i get

Connection Specific DNS suffix comcast.net
Physical address 00-09-xx-xx-xx-xx
Dhcp enabled
IP address 192.168.xxx.xxx
Dhcp server 192.168.1.1
DNS servers 63.240.xxx.xxx
204.127.xxx.xxx

Which my DNS servers are from zoneedit for my site.
and are ns*xxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx
ns*xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

I know when i set everything up using dailup things worked great, since im not router and modem doesnt work. tried using just modem and still doesnt work so lost on setting up config right.

I think what is happening is that the dial up modem was dynamically updating your dns with the dial modem settings. When you use the modem and router, you have one public IP address, and one private. There really isnt a way to dynamically update it anymore, because your computer does not know what IP address the router has. My advice is to just update your DNS with the current IP address that comcast has given you (they change, but not that often, I think mine went about 9 months before it got updated.) I would do away with the dynamic ip configuration. You should be ok with the port forwarding...just make sure your DNS record points to the current IP address on the router.

You can make it work, Just use port forwarding with your router. Have you router all traffic coming in on port 80 to the 192 address.

Even once you have port forwarding working you won't be able to contact the webpage with your www. address because you are going out and coming in on the same IP. It is kinda confusing to explain but in short it gets confused.

It should still work. He still should be able to access that website from the routers IP address as long as port forwarding is set up correctly. If the DNS is built, and is pointing to that website, it would just resolve the external IP address. It would work like this:

-Client wants to go to website www.example.com

-Client queries DNS for www.example.com

-DNS server returns 207.xx.xx.xx for www.example.com.

-www.example.com (IP address 207.xx.xx.xx) is not in local 192.168.xx.xx range, so, the request goes to the gateway of last resort in the router.

-The gateway then gets pointed out to Comcast's gateway, which routes it back to the local router.

-The connection is then forwarded to the private 192.168.xx.xx address.

The reason it doesnt get confused, is because there is a different source port from the clent side. For example, my client is connecting to a server with port 80. The client port is 1536. The external address is 207.136.95.214. My socket would look like this:

Sounds like my router isnt config right. I went to Zoneedit after shutting down DirectUpdate and made sure that the IP address was what was the public IP address for www.casinogallery.net . Now i have tried to setup port forwarding , which im using Linksys Network Everywhere Model NR041. Cant seem to get it right. Have had checked and guess port 80 is open from what i have been told, so why cant i get site to work. do i need to use the Bind section since i am using comcast.net servers to get online. Is the two conflicting between each other Apache server and the modem? Here im REALLY lost.

What IP address does it return when you do an nslookup on that domain name?

Ok what i did was unhook router and hooked up modem to computer, then i found out that in McAfee Firewall, which i got free when i signed up with Comcast that i had to check port 80, some reason when i was on dialup i didnt have to do that, not sure why. Anyway it seems to be with the way the router was setup.

Thats is where problems come in i think. Now if i hook router back up anyone know how to setup up port forwarding in Linksys Network Everywhere Model Nro41. Looked around and also in info/doc on website but lost. I know i have to change the IP address on my DNS servers when i hook up router or shut off puter, just getting the darn router to work.
Oh by the way anyone know of a good firewall, heard McAfee caused preformance problems. Had Zone Alarm, which i still have on cd but didnt like because could tell what program or app was trying to access so didnt allow alot of them---lol. Anyway idf any ideas on router and firewall let me know.
By the way im Using Windows Xp Home Edition software.

Thanks
Kevin

Im not sure where it is on that model, but on mine, which is the firewall model, you can go under advanced, and the port forwarding features are under the second tab.

Thanks for the help. I think i probably will get a different router, this one was given to me about 2 yrs ago, will look for one with firewall like u said u had. Is there one u recommend?

Well, I wouldnt dismiss the one you have if it will do the job. All's you're trying to do is configure port forwarding right?

Sure am,thats all. I know when i went to advance setup only thing that can be put in when forwarding a port is at the end of 192.168.1.--- (-) only numbers able to add. When i had router hooked up when i did ipconfig/all IP address came up as 192.168.1.100 tried putting that in on port forwarding for http 80 and had no luck.

Thats whats happening....Your server should have an address that starts with 192.168.1.xxx The port for 80 needs to be forwarded to that server address.

If You are using windows edit the hosts (or lmhosts, depending on version) file in systemd directory adding a line (by example there) like

www.mydomainname.net 127.0.0.1

windows uses the "hosts" file information above any tcp/ip