IIS6 works on LAN not on Internet

Ken,

Thank you for your response. I have it resolved. That is to say it is
now working, not that I fully understand what was wrong. To answer your
questions yes I am sure that the DNS names were resolving and the error
message was simply "Cannot connect".

I had configured Routing and remote access for a VPN conenction on the
server and for some reason that prevented the server from openig port 80 on
the public IP. I discovered this by using a port scanner on the public and
private addresses. I disabled routing and remote access and re-scanned and
everything showed up again. Tested from a PC outside of the LAN and
everything is working.

Thank you again for your response.

Tom

"Ken Schaefer" <kenREMOVE.RemoveThis@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message
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 > a) Are you sure that the DNS names resolve on the internet?
 >
 > b) You should get a more detailed error message. If you are using IE, look
 > down the bottom. If the DNS name cannot be resolved you'll see, if small
 > text, "Can not find server or DNS error". If the server can be reached,
but
 > the server is generating an error, you will see a status code, eg "500
 > Internal Server Error".
 >
 >
 > Cheers
 > Ken
 >
 >
 > "Tom Cahill" <tom.RemoveThis@cahillsolutions.com> wrote in message
 > news:7kC1b.7132$q9.428319@read1.cgocable.net...
 > : Hello,
 > :
 > : I just replaced a NT4 server with a 2003 server and the two websites
I
 > : am hosting off of it no longer work from the internet. If I am on my
lan
 > : they work fine. computers on the lan use a local dns server that maps
the
 > : website names to the lan ip address. Offsite using the internet I get a
 > : page cannot be displayed error. The IP address for both the Internet
and
 > : lan are the same as the NT4 box. Other services, such as the e-mail
 > server,
 > : are working fine. I don't think it is a DNS problem. Any idea's??
 >
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Hi,

Did you enable the Basic Firewall? If so, port 80 was probably not open. You
can open it manually from the RRAS configuration.

Click NAT/Basic Firewall in the left pane. Then right click the NIC in the
right pane and click Properties. Click on the "Services and Ports" tab, and
open port 80.

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"Tom Cahill" <tom_cahillihatespam DeleteThis @cogeco.ca> wrote in message
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 > Ken,
 >
 > Thank you for your response. I have it resolved. That is to say it
is
 > now working, not that I fully understand what was wrong. To answer your
 > questions yes I am sure that the DNS names were resolving and the error
 > message was simply "Cannot connect".
 >
 > I had configured Routing and remote access for a VPN conenction on the
 > server and for some reason that prevented the server from openig port 80
on
 > the public IP. I discovered this by using a port scanner on the public
and
 > private addresses. I disabled routing and remote access and re-scanned
and
 > everything showed up again. Tested from a PC outside of the LAN and
 > everything is working.
 >
 > Thank you again for your response.
 >
 > Tom
 >
 > "Ken Schaefer" <kenREMOVE DeleteThis @THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message
 > news:u9JhOtTaDHA.1916@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
  > > a) Are you sure that the DNS names resolve on the internet?
  > >
  > > b) You should get a more detailed error message. If you are using IE,
look
  > > down the bottom. If the DNS name cannot be resolved you'll see, if small
  > > text, "Can not find server or DNS error". If the server can be reached,
 > but
  > > the server is generating an error, you will see a status code, eg "500
  > > Internal Server Error".
  > >
  > >
  > > Cheers
  > > Ken
  > >
  > >
  > > "Tom Cahill" <tom DeleteThis @cahillsolutions.com> wrote in message
  > > news:7kC1b.7132$q9.428319@read1.cgocable.net...
  > > : Hello,
  > > :
  > > : I just replaced a NT4 server with a 2003 server and the two
websites
 > I
  > > : am hosting off of it no longer work from the internet. If I am on my
 > lan
  > > : they work fine. computers on the lan use a local dns server that maps
 > the
  > > : website names to the lan ip address. Offsite using the internet I get
a
  > > : page cannot be displayed error. The IP address for both the Internet
 > and
  > > : lan are the same as the NT4 box. Other services, such as the e-mail
  > > server,
  > > : are working fine. I don't think it is a DNS problem. Any idea's??
  > >
  > >
 >
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