I have a Linksys WRT54G router. It forwards port 80 to a webcam on my network (DCS-900). I run Sveasoft Alchemy 1.0, and I use DynDNS to alias a known address ("myword.dyndns.org") to my home IP (Verizon DSL). All of this used to work fine, and I was able to connect to this webcam from any computer on the net (in my house or from other locations, of course).

Now, one day, this stops working. The strange thing is it still works from inside my house, I can connect to my camera's IP (192.168.X.Y). Also, I can use "myword.dyndns.org" from within the house as well, and it works fine. Finally, I can ping myword.dydns.org and it responds if I ping it from my home network, but not if I ping from my work computer. But the myword.dyndns.org does correctly resolve to my home network's IP address.

I rebooted the router, rebooted the DSL modem, and rebooted the camera. Nothing fixes it. DynDNS sees my IP correctly, but if I ping that IP it doesn't respond (although it should). It seems to me like a problem with the port forwarding on my router, but I haven't changed a thing since it was working, it just stopped one day. Very weird. Any ideas?

Whoops - I lied. I switched from Comcast to Verizon DSL since it last worked, I forgot. OK, now I figured it out. Verizon blocks incoming connections on port 80 - so I can't get to myname.dyndns.org:80, I opened a second port (8080), forwarded it, and configured the webcame to accept connections on that port (it already had an option for that) and now I can get to myname.dyndns.org:8080 just fine.

Now, that's annoying though, I liked being able to tell people just to go to myname.dyndns.org, now I have to say myname.dyndns.org:8080. What a PITA! I don't suppose there's any way around that, is there? I can't imagine how, since Verizon must be blocking that port.

I suppose I could register my own domain, like www.myname.com, and forward it to myname.dyndns.org:8080, right? I could do that with something like godaddy pretty cheaply, couldn't I? I had though about doing it anyway, just to avoid the dyndns.org domain. I would just forward it, I don't care if people see that the address is different once they get forwarded.

The above should work just fine.

Diggler

Yupp, agreed, but I'd just tell them to include the ":8080". makes you look l33t

Thanks. Maybe I'll register with GoDaddy. I don't really want to appear "l33t" to my in-laws!

Just be careful what you do in front of that web cam...

It looks into my back yard, so I'm not doing much other than grilling in front of it. I guess I'm pretty "l33t" with the grill, though.