Access Problem

[Fuller]

I have a strange problem that I hope someone will be able to help me out with. I have subsonic up and running on Ubuntu and it seems to be working fine. I can access it no problem through my phone either through the browser or the android app when on 3G. The strange problem is by brother in law can not access it over his WIFI. It will work fine over 3G with his cell phone but if he runs through the wifi it will not. I'm not sure if this is relevant or not but we are on the same ISP as he only lives about a mile away. Also, my router is a dlnk DIR655 which has a guest wifi zone that is isolated from the main network. When I am on my main network I can access the server using the external ip but it will not work while in the guest network. Not that I really need to use the guest network but I thought I would add that bit of info in case it would be relevant.

[Kirk]

Some ISPs have a backwater way of "black hole routing" people to prevent excessive broadcast traffic. My provider does this. I have directional wireless Internet service. I cannot directly communicate with my neighbors on the same service, because the router at the tower blocks the traffic.

I personally think it's a terrible way to handle things, and it breaks the Internet in a very bad way...

If something like this is happening, your friend may simply be out of luck. If your provider is blocking the traffic, there may not be anything you can do.

Only exception - and a nice way around my ISP's blocks, is if you're on a small ISP that doesn't secure their shit properly, you can setup a private subnet like 192.168.100.* on your router's external interface, don't run dhcp on it, and just assign the same range of IPs at your friend's house. That actually would work, with my ISP, because it would never hit their router. Just throwing that out there, not that you'd actually want to do that.

Cheers,
Kirk

[Fuller]

Thank you for the reply. That definitely seems like what's going on. To add to the wierdness I tried to login at my sisters house and it wouldn't work. However a webage loaded from the same server. After loading it subsonic would pull up correctly. She is also on the same isp.