On 14 Dec 2000, at 8:55, Nick Rout wrote:

> I do not think you can access your webserver by its public ip address from
> inside your m* router. Ie on the lan you must use the _internal_ address
> (192.168.x.x probably).

Yes, you can, if you set your browser to use a proxy which is outside
your lan.

> You can fix this by adding hosts files throughout your lan, but its a pain
> to change if thgeres more than 2 or 3 machines. The other option is to run
> an internal dns server pointning to the internal addresses, accessable only
> within the lan.

I gave up on the proxy approach and used the above approach.

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