Connection problem

[sfreeman]

yeah, like I said before, from inside my home network it seems to work fine, but outside it doesn't...and I'm absolutely positive the ports are forwarded correctly.

Home IRC IRC (Internet relay chat) server
TCP 6667
<home IP>
UDP 6667
<home IP>
TCP 6697
<home IP>
UDP 6697
<home IP>
TCP 8067
<home IP>
UDP 8067
<home IP>
TCP 21090
<home IP>
UDP 21090
<home IP>

Those are all being forwarded to my IRC server. (overkill, I know, and I'm going to remove the un-needed ones once I get it working correctly)

[zEkE]

home IP?

Is that where it is forwarding to?

Is that the external IP address of your home network, or the internal IP address for the server?

[sfreeman]

it's the router's external IP, it has nothing to do with the functionality though, that's just how my router displays the info. it's basically saying all of those ports are forwarding to my server.

[Casper]

Should be internal as the router than does know where to forward the data traffic to (to which pc/server).

[sfreeman]

Nope, in this case it's external. It's basically listing for that specific server, which ports on <IP address> forward to it. This is just from the routing overview page listing all the forwards.

[Casper]

Have you tried it to exclude the possibility that I may be right here?

(Otherwise, I'm out of ideas.)

[sfreeman]

Sorry, I would, but that's not how this router works. You don't actually type in a rule like you would on a command-line system, it's all menu-driven. You basically create a rule for a port (or multiple ports), specify TCP or UDP, then after the rule's created, you assign it to a computer. Like I said, it's idiot-proof.

[zEkE]

It brings us back to the point that your IRCd is accepting connections, and you can connect to it from other PC's from inside your LAN.

The issue is in one of two places, either the router isn't forwarding the traffic (in part or in whole) like you believe it should be, or your ISP is blocking the inbound traffic.

The third potential issue is that the place you are testing from isn't allowing the outbound connection.

I understand you're testing from a remote location... you could try something like mibbit in testing this, as it is hosted remotely and connects from a remote location, would allow you to test from at home and see what is happening without going back and forth between. Might be able to see more from the router or trace where traffic starts and stops between locations.