Second wireless router (to connect to Apex) - question

[wade]

Side note: when I opened up the telnet port (23) I can see it just fine. Does that mean comcast is blocking 9900 or somehow blocking incoming requests altogether?

[Brian Ward]

You need the Apex on the same port you opened on your router. 80 and 25 are always blocked on a home-grade internet connection (they're the ports for HTTP and SMTP). The router just forwards the request as-is. It doesn't recast the request from port 9900 to port 80. So if you opened 9900 you need to set your Apex to respond on 9900. URL will be: http://<yourdomain>.no-ip.com:9900/

[wade]

I thought I had done that right, but guess not. That did it! Thanks!  Now to change the admin password so someone doesn't reconfig my outlets on me. :p

[Origami]

Did you open the port on the router, Wade, redirecting TCP packets there? It sounds like you did but maybe there's something wrong in the setup? Unfortunately, I don't have a COMCAST router so I don't know what you're facing.

 

As for updating the dns service provider whenever there's an IP change, try a software client that runs on a PC that's always connected to your home network (if your router doesn't have additional services). Doing just a short search, this page was found on dyndns' site (oh, the irony of it all).

 

http://dyn.com/support/clients/

[Origami]

^^Ha. I didn't read the rest of your thread. I'm glad that you got the port opened up.