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Originally Posted by MizSuz
We got it working but it's the oddest thing. If she is on her wifi she can only access it by using the internal IP address, the external address just won't work. If she gets off her wifi and gets on her data plan then she, obviously, can only access it with her external IP address.
She just can't access it using the external IP address if she is on her wifi. I've never seen anything like that before. On my own system I can use the external IP address from any browser regardless of connection.
I have some sense that it's probably some ridiculous Apple setting, but I tend to blame Apple for anything stupid by default, particularly if it's not user friendly and seems to want to keep you in the walled garden.
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Well, I hate to take away your excuse for blaming Apple (
) for something, but I did say:
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
You might not be able to access the external IP from within the LAN, depending on whether your router knows how to do NAT loopback.
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Now, as it happens my router does support NAT Loopback.
Lucky me. But as chaley said, many (most) do not.
It isn't a matter of maliciousness either -- it just requires sufficient "intelligence".
You can edit /etc/hosts on the computer to reroute the Dynamic DNS url (I assume you have one?) or use a private DNS server to catch all traffic on the LAN and redirect it to the internal IP. But this might be more work than you want...
Oh, by the way -- what turned out to be the problem?