NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.

Forum Discussion

jaron-lowe's avatar
jaron-lowe
Aspirant
Dec 15, 2020
Solved

DDNS & Port Forwarding from within network doesn't work

So I have port forwarding of port 80 setup on my router to forward to a computer on my network. I've also setup DDNS to easily hit this webserver from outside of my network. I'm trying to host a basic web server as an experiment and ran into a bizarre issue.

 

When accessing the DDNS url or my public IP directly from within my Wi-Fi network, the page just spins and loads before timing out after a long while. If I get off my home network and hotspot my computer using my mobile hotspot I can connect to the DDNS url and public IP immediately.

 

Is there some setting that I'm missing in the NETGEAR admin that should allow this port to be accessed from within the network itself?

  • So I've gotten my issue resolved. It seems I was running a previous firmware (3.2.16.6). I've updated to 3.2.16.22 (released mid-November). Now I can access my server from within the network by public IP, DDNS url, and private IP.