K.
The IP you’re seeing, 192.xx.xx.xxx, is an internal IP address. The way the
internet is setup, there are billions of networks connected together. Imagine
the router and all other computers that are connected to that router, as your
network.
All computers have low firewall settings within their own network. So
naturally, connecting to 192.xx.xx.xx from another 192.xx.xx.x machine won’t
cause nearly as many security issues as connecting to the external IP address.
The way your router communicates with the world, is it has it’s own IP address.
Just like your mailing address; they’re all unique. Your router determines
WHICH internal computer(rather it be 192.168.0.1, or 192.168.0.2) made the
request and it handles the processing of that request.
Think of your router as your internet middle man. Whenever you make a request
to the internet, it first goes through your router. Your router gets the
request, something in the form of, “REQUEST FROM <computer name> TO <wherever>
SESSIONSTAMP <stamp> TTYL<time to live>”
When that request comes back from <wherever>, your router KNOWS which local
computer made the request; thus delivering the information to the computer.
Your external IP address, is your REAL ip address that is used for
communication with any and ALL computers on your network. If you wish to access
ANY resource from a networked computer, you MUST use the REAL ip address(your
routers IP.) Your router will take care of handling all of your requests, so
don’t worry about that. Just open up the ports that you need, and start your
service.
Be sure you have opened the port in Windows Firewall(or whatever OS) AS WELL as
the router.(assuming you have more than one layer of security.)
Now, once you have that set. locate the file “red5.properties”(typically within
the /dist/ folder of your openmeetings directory.) If you still cannot find it,
search your machine for it.
I was able to do a ctrl+h(replace all) and replace ALL instances of
“.host=0.0.0.0” with “.host=YourIPHere”.
Hopefully this will give you a thourough understanding of what communication is
going on between your machine, your router, and the rest of the internet.
Remember, the internet is nothing more than billions of networks that
communicate with eachother.
-Jake
From: David Takle
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 3:30 PM
To: openmeetings-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Sending IP Address in Emails
Please elaborate --- I don't understand that sentence.
~David
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Jacob Gaiski <jgai...@emich.edu> wrote:
Did you set the bindings to your external IP address in red5.properties?
From: David Takle
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 3:13 PM
To: openmeetings-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Sending IP Address in Emails
Dimitri,
Your comment raises a lot of questions for me.
First, are you using a laptop/desktop for your server? If so, how did you get
a domain name for it?
Second, using 'ipconfig' on my XP, I got a 192.168.x.x address that worked
fine from my 2nd computer. Was that only because it is on the same side of the
modem? Would that address not work for the rest of the world to use?
Thanks!
~David
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Dimitri Yioulos <dyiou...@onpointfc.com>
wrote:
I've found that you need to log into OM with the FQDN of your OM server
(e.g.
http://openmeetings.mydomain.tld:5080/openmeetings). At first, I was using
the
internal address of the OM server, so my invitees were instructed to go to
the
meeting at http://192.168.x.x<meeting_id>. Clearly, that didn't work.
Others
may know of another way to accomplish what you're after.
Dimitri
On Friday 28 September 2012 2:56:08 pm David Takle wrote:
> The Derby DB went nutso on me, so I started over with MySQL.
> Things are working nicely now.
> However, when I send out an email invite, it says "localhost" which means
> nothing to the recipient.
> How do I send my IP address in the email?
>
> Further, how do I get the IP address of my PC when it goes through a
> wireless router? If I go to a website that provides my IP address, it
gives
> the address of my router, not the PC. If I substitute that IP address in
> the email invitation, it does not connect to OpenMeetings because the
> router does not recognize the request.
>
> ~David
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