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Port forwarding issues
Hi, I'm trying to forward some ports on from my router to my PC but am having quite a bit of trouble.
As you can see in the screenshot below. I have added both of the required ports to allow co...
> As you can see in the screenshot below. [...]
There's no reason to hide the Internal IP Address value(s). What is
the IP address of that target server? What have you done to ensure that
it always has the address which appears in the port-forwarding rule?
> [...] when I check if the ports are open via the following website, it
> states that they are both closed. [...]
Are you specifying the right external/public IP address for testing?
Is that the WAN/Internet IP address of the router?
Is the server program running on the target server system?
The usual problems with this stuff are:
1. Wrong external IP address (different from the port-forwarding
router's WAN/Internet IP address). (An intermediate NAT router, for
example, could cause this.)
2. Bad port-forwarding rule (wrong port(s), wrong target address --
including a wandering target).
3. Server not listening on the port-forwarding target/server system.
4. External influences: ISP blocking, other firewalls, ...