ERROR: unable to connect to remote host, from remote host

When my PC connects, it downloads the status page from my
router, gets the router's external IP, and uploads that to a
site. If I ssh out to a shell provider, I can access connect
to that site, and connect to the apache2 or ssh servers running
on my machine since ports are forwarded to my machine. If I try
to connect directly, I get "ERROR: unable to connect to remote
host," I have to use localhost or 127.0.0.1 to connect directly.

I'm hoping to remedy this, as I don't see why I shouldn't be able
to connect to my router's external IP, but routing isn't my strong
suit, and I'm at a loss.


Router (Westell VersaLink 327W)

IP Interfaces

Address Subnet Mask Name
127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 lo0
192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 eth0
71.242.236.179 255.255.255.255 mainPPP


Network Routing Table

Destination Subnet Mask Gateway Interface Metric Rip
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 71.242.236.179 mainPPP 0 N/A
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 eth0 0 N/A

Host Routing Table

Destination Gateway Interface Metric Rip
71.242.236.179 127.0.0.1 lo0 0 N/A
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 lo0 0 N/A
192.168.1.1 127.0.0.1 lo0 0 N/A

Local machine

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:1D:50:36
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default dsl 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

TIA,

Michael C.
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