> "when connecting from the WAN"
I use the public IP address of our edge router from a computer outside of
our LAN

> Are you actually connecting from a machine on the same LAN, but using the
> WAN IP address of the router?
When 'inside', I use the LAN address of the server from a client on the same
LAN

> What do you mean by "I am seeing the router forward the proper port"
What that I mean that I see the following firewall rule fire:
Sat, 2005-12-10 20:28:05 - TCP packet - Source: outside computer address -
Destination: WAN address of edge router -[Service access request successful
Src 1164 Dst 5901 from WAN]

This rule is a port forwarding rule that forwards a TCP request to the LAN
address that I can successfully connect to when on the 'inside'.


Theo

-----Original Message-----
From: James Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:20 AM
To: 'tomtzigt'
Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com
Subject: RE: Trouble connecting

Theo,

When you say "when connecting from the WAN", what *exactly* are you doing?

Are you actually connecting from a machine on the same LAN, but using the
WAN IP address of the router?

Are you connecting from a machine on another LAN, using the WAN IP address
of the router?

What do you mean by "I am seeing the router forward the proper port"?  How
are you "seeing" the router do that?

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tomtzigt
> Sent: 13 December 2005 02:55
> To: 'James Weatherall'
> Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Trouble connecting
> 
> So, if I am successful in connecting to the VNC server when I 
> am inside the
> LAN, AND I have port forwarding set to forward to the same IP 
> address that I
> am using when successfully connecting to the VNC server, AND 
> I am seeing the
> router forward the proper port when connecting from the WAN 
> but I am still
> seeing a vnc error: "unable to connect to host: Connection timed out
> (10060)" what is the next step to see what might be misconfigured?
> 
> Theo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 1:52 PM
> To: tomtzigt
> Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: Trouble connecting
> 
> Theo,
> 
> No.  If a computer receives a TCPv4 connection request for a port on 
> which there is nothing accepting connections, it will respond with a 
> "Connection refused" message.  "Connection timed out" means that 
> literally no response whatsoever was received from the server 
> IP address.
> 
> Please see the tips at http://www.realvnc.com/portforward.html, 
> particularly the net-test link, which can be used from your 
> VNC server 
> computer to determine whether your server is in fact contactable.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> 
> 
> tomtzigt wrote:
> > I am confused. The computer doesn't respond does it? Some 
> software that is
> > listening to that port would respond, not? And that should 
> presumably be
> the
> > VNC server which is running in a process.
> > 
> > Whatever it is, I need more than that to get unstuck. The 
> IP address of
> the
> > machine that is running the VNC server is 192.168.1.10. 
> That address works
> > when on the inside using vnc viewer. It is also programmed on the
> firewall.
> > The port numbers are correct, the IP forwarding is correct. 
> Other services
> > are working, but not VNC. So I am looking for something 
> that can tell me
> > where that vnc packets are getting lost.
> > 
> > All  help is appreciated.
> > 
> > Theo
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 6:15 AM
> > To: 'tomtzigt'; vnc-list@realvnc.com
> > Subject: RE: Trouble connecting
> > 
> > Theo,
> > 
> > Error 10060 does NOT mean that no process is listening to 
> the request.  It
> > means that no *computer* responded to the request.  This is 
> most commonly
> > because of firewall configuration or because the IP address 
> that you are
> > using is wrong.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tomtzigt
> >>Sent: 11 December 2005 13:57
> >>To: vnc-list@realvnc.com
> >>Subject: Trouble connecting
> >>
> >>I am stuck..
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>I installed the latest VNC server on Fedora Core 2 and client 
> >>on Windows XP.
> >>When I am on the inside of the network, I can connect to a 
> >>running Xvnc
> >>process, but when I am on the WAN I can't. The VNC Viewer 
> >>error I get back
> >>is: "unable to connect to host: Connection timed out 
> >>(10060)", which after
> >>reading this forum I interpret to mean that no process is 
> >>listening to the
> >>request. I've painstakingly sifting through all the messages 
> >>from the router
> >>and it successfully forwards the VNC TCP request to the 
> >>machine on which VNC
> >>is running, but I can't get a VNC session going from the WAN 
> >>side. Anyone
> >>have any good ideas how further to debug this problem?
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>Router message:
> >>
> >>Sat, 2005-12-10 20:28:05 - TCP packet - Source: xxx - 
> >>Destination: xxx -
> >>[Service access request successful Src 1164 Dst 5901 from WAN]
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>And VNC server is running:
> >>
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] tomtzigt]$ ps -aux | grep vnc
> >>
> >>tomtzigt  4025  0.9  2.7 17752 14276 pts/3   S    Dec10  
> 10:25 Xvnc :1
> >>-desktop head-node -httpd /usr/share/vnc/classes -auth
> >>/home/tomtzigt/.Xauthority -geometry 1400x1100 -depth 16 
> >>-rfbwait 30000
> >>-rfbauth /home/tomtzigt/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -pn
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>Looking forward to get unstuck.
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>Theo
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