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Accessing a local DSL machine by its external IP
Authored by: awk on Apr 09, '03 03:49:38PM

I'm not 100% sure, but won't this mess up things if you want your mac to communicate with other machines on the 80.60.x.x network? I.e., they will all be sent to 127.0.0.1 instead of your DSL route .. maybe a network guru can comment?

My instinct would be to use a netmask of 255.255.255.255 which would put just that one IP there.

Actually I'd probably just use localhost as others have suggested but it's also good to try things different ways!



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Accessing a local DSL machine by its external IP
Authored by: vlipper on Apr 09, '03 08:03:24PM

You're absolutely right. It was not handy from me to use 80.60.x.x.as an exaple. A better example would be 1.2.3.4 ;-)
I think the control panel would not accept 80.60.x.x either.

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