Web forwarding question

I have a domain registered with www.just-the-name.co.uk and use the
web forwarding so that browsing the registered domain gets to see the
web pages on my home Linux box.

What incoming IP address will my router see when people use the
forwarded domain? Will the packets appear to come from
www.just-the-name.co.uk (or something related to it) or will they
appear to come from the contacting browser/PC?

I'm asking because I want to set up the router firewall accordingly.

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Chris Green

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:dqgeqa$puf$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a domain registered with www.just-the-name.co.uk and use the
> web forwarding so that browsing the registered domain gets to see the
> web pages on my home Linux box.
>
> What incoming IP address will my router see when people use the
> forwarded domain? Will the packets appear to come from
> www.just-the-name.co.uk (or something related to it) or will they
> appear to come from the contacting browser/PC?

Usually the latter, although there could be a proxy server (or several)
between the browser and your server. But almost certainly not from anything
to do with just-the-name.co.uk.

Assuming you wish the site to be accessible by all, you should allow
connections from all IP addresses.

Why are you using forwarding? Can you not have a static IP address?

Alex

Alex Fraser <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:dqgeqa$puf$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I have a domain registered with www.just-the-name.co.uk and use the
> > web forwarding so that browsing the registered domain gets to see the
> > web pages on my home Linux box.
> >
> > What incoming IP address will my router see when people use the
> > forwarded domain? Will the packets appear to come from
> > www.just-the-name.co.uk (or something related to it) or will they
> > appear to come from the contacting browser/PC?
>
> Usually the latter, although there could be a proxy server (or several)
> between the browser and your server. But almost certainly not from anything
> to do with just-the-name.co.uk.
>
OK, thanks.


> Assuming you wish the site to be accessible by all, you should allow
> connections from all IP addresses.
>
> Why are you using forwarding? Can you not have a static IP address?
>
I have a static IP address but it's an 'IP centric' one and is very
long and unmemorable. Using the web forwarding also means that if I
change ISP (which I have done once already) the site's address can
remain unchanged.

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Chris Green

In MsgID<dqgq56$s6n$(E-Mail Removed)> within uk.comp.home-networking,
'(E-Mail Removed)' wrote:

>> Why are you using forwarding? Can you not have a static IP address?
>>
>I have a static IP address but it's an 'IP centric' one and is very
>long and unmemorable. Using the web forwarding also means that if I
>change ISP (which I have done once already) the site's address can
>remain unchanged.

Presumably you could set the DNS record to point to your static IP?
Only takes 24 hours for an update to be distributed. I was under the
impression that a forwarding system had some disadvantages?

Dave J

Dave J. <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> In MsgID<dqgq56$s6n$(E-Mail Removed)> within uk.comp.home-networking,
> '(E-Mail Removed)' wrote:
>
> >> Why are you using forwarding? Can you not have a static IP address?
> >>
> >I have a static IP address but it's an 'IP centric' one and is very
> >long and unmemorable. Using the web forwarding also means that if I
> >change ISP (which I have done once already) the site's address can
> >remain unchanged.
>
> Presumably you could set the DNS record to point to your static IP?
> Only takes 24 hours for an update to be distributed. I was under the
> impression that a forwarding system had some disadvantages?
>
I could if just-the-name would let me, yes.

More to the point I could host the domain at my ISP I suppose, it's
just that I haven't got a round tuit.

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Chris Green

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Dave J. <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>Presumably you could set the DNS record to point to your static IP?
>>Only takes 24 hours for an update to be distributed. I was under the
>>impression that a forwarding system had some disadvantages?

> I could if just-the-name would let me, yes.

Another option would be to use www.ZoneEdit.com (or similar) for DNS
so long as JTN will let you set the DNS entries. If they won't (and
since you're presumably not tied to them for any other reason) ukreg
(.com) and/or 123-reg(.co.uk) each allow such changes, easily, and I
have used them both for some time... the first has no transfer fees
and both are cheaper for .co.uk domains... Just checked back to the
JTN website (I've also used them, 3+ years ago) and was a little bit
surprised to see they still have banner ads for Metronet, which they
sold to Plus.Net in November... odd ! HTH. Peter M.

PS ZoneEdit.com is free for up to 5 domains, with a fee after that,
but it really does set up handy defaults for someone not too deep
into DNS info, provides web- and mail-forwarding if needed, but
they can be overridden with IP addresses, MX records, etc, or
just used as a guide for certain other services which might be
offering other features - eg ZoneEdit.com is free if traffic is
low, but at some point there will be charges - if using web/mail
forwarding then once traffic exceeds 200 MB in a year, you'd need
to pay or move. The 200 MB easily copes with lots of DNS lookups,
so in simple terms, OK for IP addresses, less likely to be free for
web/mail forwarding.

PPS If the domain is not .uk but .com/.org/etc then hostway.com and
a number of other (mostly N American) services can be much cheaper.