[Xitami] Xitami and dns2go

[Control-Freak]

I use dns2go and xitami.  Most residential ISPs block port 80, so no one
outside your local ISP "hub" of computers can access your domain on a
standard HTTP port.

If you can connect to your domain using your domain name locally, then your
domain provider points to Deerfield's servers, so thats all fine.  But if
you can't get in from "outside", you need to set your portbase to a value of
like 5920 to get Xitami to work on port 6000 (5920+80) (or whatever works
with your ISP - might take some experimentation).

In the dns2go client, you need to goto the service settings tab, and on the
"apply the following settings when I am:" pull-down, select online.

Then check the box next to "Redirect web requests (with a www prefix)"

then check the radio button that says "To my current IP address on port" and
then  put in your portbase value + 80 (6000 as shown above).  If you need to
know how to get your FTP port back down to 20, read the defaults.cfg file
carefully.  It works similar to portbase - just use a negative number to
bring it back down.

Restart Xitami

Disconnect then reconnect the dns2go client.

Now everyone should hopefully be able to connect to your ISP using
www.yourdomain.com.  But, remember that the www. is now crucial in order for
dns2go to know to portforward the HTTP request.  http://yourdomain.com will
result in an attempt to connect at port 80, so it will not work.

Hope that helps.  You'll need to do a little more if you still need Xitami's
FTP services.  Maybe not -  FTP might work fine at port 5940 on your ISP.

P.S. For FTP, use ftp://yourdomain.com  not ftp://www.yourdomain.com or
dns2go will try and portforward the FTP request.

Good Luck,

- Jay Aldrich


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert J. DeMartini" <robdemartini@mindspring.com>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 7:54 PM
Subject: [Xitami] Xitami and dns2go


> I'm currently using dns2go to route my dynamic ip into a single domain
name
> (i.e. the IP address changes but the domain name insures the site is
found).
> Currently I cannot get Xitami to work. I can see the site on my local
system
> but the outside world cannot get in. I was hoping someone else had a
similar
> circumstance and could offer a solution.
>
> Right now I'm using a program called, "TheServer" and it works fine, but
> lacks any type of server depth. The interesting part is that server lets
> traffic in no problem... so I know it's possible it's just probably a
> setting I am overlooking.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
>
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