PWS Not serving images

[Patrick1327]

I am having problems getting PWS on a Windows 98 system to serve images. I have a Linksys 4 port router coupled with a Linksys 5 port switch. Connected to the WAN port on the router, I have a SpeedStream 5260 modem. All three PC's on my LAN can see the Internet fine and when the site is accessed via any of the nodes on my LAN, either via

http://www.sitename.com

or by IP address PWS works fine. When I disconnect one PC from the LAN and dial in using AOL to simulate an external user, AOL's browser will display text but not any images. When using IE 5 with the same AOL dial up session, the images appear fine. When using IE 5 from work over a T1 connection, IE behaves as the AOL browser does and does not display images. I have connected the web server directly to the DSL modem and the dial up test passes, so there is some configuration issue here. I have tried both forwarding and DMZ with no success.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Patrick1327]

Found the problem. With my DDNS provider, I had to add the workstation as an alias or cname record. Once I did that, the server started to function properly.

Thanks!

 

[NRGeti]

I am having this same problem. What does it mean to add the workstation as an alias or cname record and how do you do it?

 

[Patrick1327]

The easiest way to explain is by way of example:

I use a dynamic DNS service, miniDNS. Now, let's suppose that your domain is acme.com and the machine name for your web server is acmeweb01.

What I found is that if you try to access

http://acme.com,

the web server will attempt to point you to

http://acmeweb01.

Since this is not a vaild domain name on the Internet you get nothing.

When you regester the top level record (i.e. acme.com) you also need to add an alias of acmeweb01.acme.com which points to acme.com.

What are you using for a DNS service and are you using Windows 98?