Client Connections

Overview

This is a list of known issues that are not bugs, but require additional configuration for one reason or another.

New Installations

If a client computer can’t connect to the DDNS Website.

It appears that you are trying to browse to the site from the machine on which it is hosted. When you access it via localhost, the machine translates the hostname to the loopback address, 127.0.0.1; when you access it via the fqdn, mywebiste.ddns.net, your machine translates the hostname to your WAN address (assuming you don't host a local DNS server).

To work around this, you can add an entry to the machine's hosts file (%windir%\system32\drivers\etc). Just add an entry for your site:

127.0.0.1 mywebsite.ddns.net

or for IPv6:

::1 mywebsite.ddns.net

Also, if you want to browse the site from other machines on your LAN, you will have to do the same thing on those machines, substituting host machine's LAN address for the loopback address (e.g. 192.168.1.xxx).

192.168.1.xxx mywebsite.ddns.net