Port forward D-Link DSL-2760

I have a feeling that you shouldn't be going to Port Triggering. Try Advanced Setup > NAT > Virtual Servers and click Add
 
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d7e7r7 said:
If I click on the thumbnails they open a new tab with the larger (full size) screenshot... :confused:
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Uhm no. You posted links to .png thumbnails, so you can't simply click it to get the full size screenshots...
 
Pada said:
Uhm no. You posted links to .png thumbnails, so you can't simply click it to get the full size screenshots...
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The thumbnail is the img which is wrapped in a url which takes you to the bigger image

[ URL=http://www.imageurlhost.com/images/cn4ek7p9jfpje6b7emv.png ][ IMG]http://www.picamatic.com/show/2011/06/18/09/58/7636757_bigthumb.png[/IMG][/URL ]
 
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An application needs to be running (listening) at port 5555 for the YouGetSignal.com tool to work. E.g., if I use it to test port 80 on my computer, it says that port 80 is closed, but when I start my web server (Apache), it says that port 80 is open.
 
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adrianx said:
An application needs to be running at port 5555 for the YouGetSignal.com tool to work. E.g., if I use it to test port 80 on my computer, it says that port 80 is closed, but when I start my web server (Apache), it says that port 80 is open.
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ok I'll try it with an app running... which method is correct though? Port triggering or virtual servers?
 
Sorry d7e7r7 for saying that your images didn't work!
I had the 'Show Images (including attached images and images in code)' option disabled in the General Settings of myBB, which caused those thumbnail links not to work properly :(

Port Triggering is different from Port Forwarding.

Port Forwarding will ALWAYS forward the port from the WAN interface of your router to the predefined LAN IP address. Most routers list Port Forwarding as Virtual Servers, which is the one you're looking for in this case.
Port Triggering will ONLY forward the port to the LAN IP address which made an outbound connection on the Trigger Port.

Without the application hosting on that port, the Open Port test will fail.
 
you need to port forward (with virtual server) and actually have the app listening on the port forwarded to. the router forwards the packet from its port to the system hosting the forwarded port. if the forwarded port is not listening, the router gets a NACK and similarly forwards that NACK back to your scanning tool.
 
stricken said:
you need to port forward (with virtual server) and actually have the app listening on the port forwarded to. the router forwards the packet from its port to the system hosting the forwarded port. if the forwarded port is not listening, the router gets a NACK and similarly forwards that NACK back to your scanning tool.
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Still nothing...
My news server is using port 563 and that's the port I added to the virtual server and tested with testing site but got a " Port 563 is closed on my.ip.add.ress"... Same result when I tried port triggering...
Does either the router or the pc need to be rebooted?
 
Are you with Mweb by any chance? I know Mweb has a setting where they'll block most of the unwanted inbound connection, which you can disable on your profile from their webpage.

Also, do you want to host a news server from your ADSL, or do you want to connect to a news server on that port?
The router might have to be rebooted for the Port Forwarding to take effect, but I actually doubt that it would be necessary.
You can actually verify it by logging in on the router with telnet client and then running 'iptables -t nat -L -v -n', and then there should be an entry for the port forward.

If you want to host a news server from your PC, then you need to make sure that you don't have any other firewalls blocking it. Secondly, you need to have the news server listen on 0.0.0.0 IP address, and not just on your LAN address.
You can run 'netstat -na' from within Command Prompt to make sure that your news server is indeed listening on TCP Port 0.0.0.0:563.
If you don't like using command line utilities, then you can download TCP View from Microsoft to get the same information and more ;)

And lastly, the PC (which is going to run the news server) has to have its default gateway set to the router, which would be the default if you just kept it's IP address settings on Obtain an IP address automatically.
It might seem silly that I mention this, but I've had it quite a few times where the PC could "see" the ADSL modem, since it's on the same IP range as the ADSL modem, but then the port forwarding wouldn't work because the default gateway wasn't set (which would mean that the PC never had Internet access).
 
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Pada said:
Are you with Mweb by any chance? I know Mweb has a setting where they'll block most of the unwanted inbound connection, which you can disable on your profile from their webpage.

Also, do you want to host a news server from your ADSL, or do you want to connect to a news server on that port?
The router might have to be rebooted for the Port Forwarding to take effect, but I actually doubt that it would be necessary.
You can actually verify it by logging in on the router with telnet client and then running 'iptables -t nat -L -v -n', and then there should be an entry for the port forward.

If you want to host a news server from your PC, then you need to make sure that you don't have any other firewalls blocking it. Secondly, you need to have the news server listen on 0.0.0.0 IP address, and not just on your LAN address.
You can run 'netstat -na' from within Command Prompt to make sure that your news server is indeed listening on TCP Port 0.0.0.0:563.
If you don't like using command line utilities, then you can download TCP View from Microsoft to get the same information and more ;)

And lastly, the PC (which is going to run the news server) has to have its default gateway set to the router, which would be the default if you just kept it's IP address settings on Obtain an IP address automatically.
It might seem silly that I mention this, but I've had it quite a few times where the PC could "see" the ADSL modem, since it's on the same IP range as the ADSL modem, but then the port forwarding wouldn't work because the default gateway wasn't set (which would mean that the PC never had Internet access).
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Not with MWEB... I'm with Propertiere (who use the IS backbone)...
I'm not trying to host a news server from my pc, merely connect to one... Telnet is blocked on my router for security purposes, so have been trying to use that online port checker I linked to earlier...
Still not having any luck... :(
 
Port Forwarding is only necessary for hosting.

If you make outbound connections, then you don't need to port forward. So please don't try to port forward when trying to download from Usenet servers :)
 
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