[wellylug] Website not visible??

[John Durham]

Jo Booth wrote:
>
> On 27/01/2007, at 09:12 , John Durham wrote:
>
>> I just did a port scan on my own server and found port 80 open (among 
>> other things). Still, the site is not visible to outside users. Would 
>> really like to know where to look for clues to this. The server is 
>> Ubuntu 4.10 and the only recent changes include blocking a list of 
>> IPs from accessing the server, plus the suggestions from list users 
>> on how to protect it.
>
> Did you scan locally (i.e. inside your firewall/router)?  Your router 
> may be blocking outside attempt to contact port 80.
>
> Having port 80 open without anything running on it is strange, 
> methinks. You sure there is nothing there?  i.e. try: telnet 127.0.0.1 80
>
>
> -Jo.
I scanned internally from the server where port 80 shows open. just to be sure of the router, I have powered it off for 1 minute and re-started. So far no unusual behaviour.

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