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[RBR40] Port Forwarding not working for Port 80
Good Evening, I have a Orbi Mesh Router with 2 satellites in my house. In my network I have multiple servers, one of them being a webserver. To enable public access I enabled port 80 in PORT...
pipechess wrote:This works. So port 81 is reachable externally. But not when trying port 80.
I am unable to reproduce the problem. I forwarded port 80 to my Pi-hole web portal. Disconnected from Orbi to use mobile LTE connection. Opened http://<my public IP address>/admin/ and up came the Pi-hole interface.
I did not select from the drop down menu of services (starting with FTP at the top. HTTP is the second one.) and instead created a custom rule using port 80. I doubt Netgear would have included HTTP on the list of services and not allow forwarding port 80.
Since port 81 forwarded correctly for you, it is pretty clear that there is not a router in front of the Orbi.
I have no clue why it didn't work for you. Certainly does for me.
Yeah,
the odd thing is that this worked a couple months ago.
I don't know if this is a firmware bug after the latest update and/or if the router now reserves port 80 for internal puposes?
This is driving me nuts. My entire server infrstructure is down because of this.....
pipechess wrote:the odd thing is that this worked a couple months ago.
I don't know if this is a firmware bug after the latest update and/or if the router now reserves port 80 for internal puposes?
This is driving me nuts. My entire server infrstructure is down because of this.....My Orbi firmware is v2.7.2.104. Port 80 on the LAN side is used for the Orbi web interface, but that is entirely separate from forwarding port 80 from the WAN side to a specific device. The LAN side can any any number of devices listening on port 80. (I have 2 Pi-holes which are listening on a total of 4 interfaces.)
Did you try forwarding using both the pre-defined (drop down menu) HTTP port and defining a custom rule for port 80 TCP?
Please check your private messages.