[thelist] setting up "localhost"

[.jeff]

ben,

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> From: Ben Heuer
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> I am using my personal PC. With my dialup, whenever I
> logged in, I would get a dynamically allocated IP
> Address, but I could give that to my friends and they
> could see my Apache. With Broadband, how should I do
> that?
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wait for confirmation from the more technically knowledged network gurus,
but i've got a guess about what's going on here.

it sounds to me, based on the ip address you say you're getting, that your
isp has their customers behind their own gateway (is that the right term?).
if that's the case then there's probably no way to direct traffic to your
computer from the outside world as they've had to set up a pass-through for
port 80 to your dynamically allocated ip address.  i highly doubt they'd do
that for you though since part of the reason they've got it setup the way
they do is to keep people from setting up servers.

sorry i can't be of more help.

.jeff

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