Access the WAN IP locally?

[Pinter75]

Howdy,

I have a Belkin ADSL router/modem. The firewall virtual server is set to forward port 80 to a local pc on the LAN.

Clients outside the LAN can access the web server through the router's WAN IP ok, I however cannot?

I can see the server ok by accessing the local IP or server name, but if I try to access the WAN IP all I get is Page cannot be displayed.

Anyone have any ideas on how to configure this thing so I can use the WAN IP locally?

Ta.

 

[BigBoy]

From Inside a network you cannot connect to your External IP use local host 127.0.0.1 to view local content as if you were connecting from outside.

 

[derbyjake]

not entirely tru u can acsess it internaly if u use reverse/forward dns zones

 

[tolien]

Not by the IP though.

If the router does "loopback", it'll work too.