[Closed] Cannot ACCESS DVR from Dyndns

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Do not select "custom" and "statdns", but the normal whatever it is.
Set "Force Update Interval" to 25 days, not 10 days, to prevent from unnecessary abusive updates.

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Disable DDNS updates in your DVR. This is useless. You cannot update a WebHop anyway, only a host with IP address.

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Gateway must be the IP address of your router (192.168.0.1), not your public IP address.
Also set DNS1 to the IP address of your router.

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That looks ok regarding port 24080 to 192.168.0.49, your DVR. Not sure however why you forward port 1000 to your router and port 2233 to Foscam1, the latter may be another device (camera) in your network at 192.168.0.51?

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As for the networkDVR, is the mask right? And as for the 192.168.0.1, that's my laptop. And 192.168.0.250 is my router. I was told by portforward.com to try testing on port 1000 on my laptop. Thats why i tried it for port 1000 on 192.168.0.1. As for the setting of ddwrtDDNS, its normal setting is "custom". I still can't ping myself using open port tool.

Oops yes, the netmask should be 255.255.255.0. And if your router has the IP address 192.168.0.250, you must change also Gateway and DNS1, these always being the router's IP address.

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For the netmask, its the same on the DVR video program as well right?

The netmask must be the same on every device in your network. The typical value for home DSL routers is 255.255.255.0, which means that only the last octet is variable, the rest is fixed like 192.168.0. You should also find this value in your router setup. The setting in the router finally determines the settings in the rest of the LAN.

Is it possible if i use my router ip as a DMZ?

The DMZ IP address range is outside of your LAN range 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.252, so that the networks are topologically separated, as an additional security measure. Given your skills, I would not play with this option, it makes things unnecessarily complicated.

In general, don't play too much with IP addresses and netmasks and such if you don't know what you're doing. Better concentrate on to get your port forwarding right.

Ah, just seeing, I can reach your DVR login page http://prima-plastic.dyndns-office.com:24080/ with no problems:
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And your WebHop http://prima-plastic.dyndns.org/ works fine too.

Starting another answer as that one is getting out of hand again ;)

Hi. I seem to be making progress. After i set it up according to yours and rotblitz setting, I get a different output from the open port tool. It says "connection refused" instead of "time out". What is the problem now?

That suggests you have a software firewall running on the server. If you're unsure how to find out, please tell us the operating system and version number (eg, Windows Server 2003 r2 or Ubuntu 10.10).

Btw. off topic, what is netmask anywayz. I learnt it before, guess i was sleeping in class. A brief intro would be kindly accepted

This Wikipedia article covers it in detail. In short it's what identifies the network portion of the IP address from the host portion - allowing a computer to identify whether another computer is on the same local network, or whether it is remote (and needs to go through a router).

For example, 192.168.70.1/24 has a 24 bit netmask, or 255.255.255.0 (each number being a byte - 8 bits). In this case the network portion is 192.168.70. and the host portion is .1. That means that anything else that starts with 192.168.70. is on the local network, and everything else is remote.

If all host bits are set (192.168.70.255 in the example above) then that is the broadcast address for the network (aka all hosts) - that can't be allocated to a computer. If all bits are clear (192.168.70.0 in the example above) then that is the network address for the network and it also can't be allocated to a computer.

Netmasks can be any length from /0 to /32, though most home networks use /24. That makes it easy to read since the first 3 bytes are the network address and the last the host address.

Glad it's all working now.

This guide should help you get started.

I suspect that your modem is actually a router, as that is quite often the case. If the modem holds the public IP, and your wireless router has only a private/local WAN IP obtained from the modem, then indeed the "modem" is a router. If both devices are routers, then you must first forward traffic from the ISP-provided router (modem) to the wireless router, and then from the wireless router to the DVR.

Your hostname prima-plastic.dyndns.org is a WebHop redirect to http://prima-plastic.dyndns-office.com:8080/ now. The Open Port Tool states for the latter: An attempted connection to prima-plastic.dyndns-office.com:8080 timed out. This typically indicates that traffic to that port is being actively blocked by either a firewall or your ISP.

That first response of mine is getting a little long now.

Hi, I've tried port range forwarding on the 24080 in my router. But its still not possible. My router is a TP-link TL-wr1043ND flashed with dd-wrt firmware.

You're not doing port range forwarding. You're forwarding 24080 from your router to whatever port you're using on your DVR. DD-WRT certainly supports that (at least in all versions in the last couple of years).

Is it something to do with the bridging from the modem to the router? If i set it back to both modem and router to NAT, could you tell me how to set it up so that i can still use dyndns to go through my router to my DVR?

Can you confirm that you've done one of:

• Forwarded the required ports from the modem to the router and then from the router to the DVR
• Put the modem into bridge mode and confirmed that the router has your WAN IP

If the latter, what are the first 2 numbers of the WAN IP address of the router (eg 192.168.x.x)?

Yeap. I forwarded the ports and changed 8080 to 24080 and i set it up in my DSL-modem for port forwarding before i changed the function from pppoe to bridge mode. I then port forward it through my tp-link router as well.

Which configuration are you using just now? Is your modem in bridge mode or are you port forwarding from it to the WAN IP of the router?

My WAN IP is 118.96.x.x.

Is that as shown by your WAN connected device, or as shown by one of the many web sites? The only value you can trust is the one shown by the status pages on the WAN connected device.

Since i bridged it to my tp-link router, its showing on the dd-wrt WAN page. It should be correct right?

Yes, that will be.

Can you confirm that you can connect to the DVR, from another host on your LAN, using the LAN IP and the port you're forwarding to? Can you post a screen capture of the DD-WRT port forwarding settings and the DVR's LAN IP settings (you may have to use a service like Photobucket, TinyPic or ImageShack)?

What are you using to keep your hostname up to date? Have you confirmed that your hostname still resolves to your WAN IP? Can you post your hostname so we can test remotely?

Yeap. I can confirm that its working on the local lan. I tested it on several computers on the LAN using the lan ip and the port that you told me which is 24080. I am using my dd-wrt tp-link router to keep my hostname up to date. Yeap. I have confirmed it. My host name is prima-plastic.dyndns-office.com:24080

Well, your hostname is prima-plastic.dyndns-office.com, the other part is the port. Your client is presumably only configured with prima-plastic.dyndns-office.com.

I uploaded files on the Photobucket, how do i post it up here? Just write the username?

Just past the URLs into a post (not a comment, either edit your question or post an "answer").