David:

Thank you very much for your thoughts. My responses are in context below.


> I assume you have a dynamic IP on concentric.net, so you probably have no
> choice but to use the public IP you are given. However, you can give that
> dynamic IP a static name to make it easier for someone to find. Do a web
> search for 'dns hosting'. I use no-ip.com. They have Unix source that
> compiles in Linux to a binary DNS update client.

>> Yes, it is a dynamic IP and I will have to content with this at some
point and perhaps will the DNS update client solutions will be a good patch
until I get a static IP address.

>
> If you are on a private IP behind some other device, you will need to set
> that gateway/router device to forward the desired port to the LAN IP of
> your Linux box.

>> Yes, this is the case. I am behind a small router/gateway. When you
speak of "forwarding" the address to the LAN IP of my Linux box, I'm
currently assuming you mean to set something in the Network Bridge (I get
my Internet connection as a shared resource from a WinXP box that has a
ZoneAlarm Pro firewall on it) properties to do this. Can you suggest where
in these settings I might look to make this happen?


>
> You do not say what program/scripting you are using for the socket
> connection, but you can get some ideas from 'perldoc perlipc'.
>

>> Yes, it is a Perl socket on the server. The client will be a Java
applet. For the moment, getting the socket to function has been easier
than trying to figure out how to allow external access to my Linux box.


Thanks again for your assistance.

Moose

On 14 Aug 2003 16:41:14 GMT, mooseshoes <mooseshoes@gmx.net> wrote:
> David:
>
> Thank you very much for your thoughts. My responses are in context below.
>
>
>> If you are on a private IP behind some other device, you will need to set
>> that gateway/router device to forward the desired port to the LAN IP of
>> your Linux box.
>
>>> Yes, this is the case. I am behind a small router/gateway. When you
> speak of "forwarding" the address to the LAN IP of my Linux box, I'm
> currently assuming you mean to set something in the Network Bridge (I get
> my Internet connection as a shared resource from a WinXP box that has a
> ZoneAlarm Pro firewall on it) properties to do this. Can you suggest where
> in these settings I might look to make this happen?

Most of us here have as little to do with Windows as possible. In
hardware routers port forwarding is often called Virtual Hosting. But you
may have better luck trying to figure out how to do that in XP in a
Windows newsgroup.

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