TomatoUSB

Hi,

I have a personal server that I've been using for years now. I have a domain name registered through GoDaddy. I recently moved into a new apartment and had to sign up for a different ISP. When I had moved before, I kept the same ISP and would just updated the DNS "@" record on GoDaddy's site to whatever my external IP address was, which from what I can remember was always located under WAN/IP Address in Tomato's overview page. I just had internet installed and everything works fine, but I notice that Tomato lists my local address as 192.1.0.2. This is obviously a local address, and when I use whatismyip.com I get a true external address. Obviously I put in the external address into GoDaddy's settings, but I'm still unable to connect to my site after 2 days. I have a feeling the problem is relating to the local address the router is showing. I can even hit my site when I go to 192.1.0.2 in a browser. Why is this happening? How can I fix the issue? Thanks!

192.1.0.2 is not local, unless you mean 10.1.0.2 or 192.168.0.2?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network

If it is local on your WAN - talk to your ISP!

sorry, I did mean 192.168.0.2

What can my ISP do? My internet service is working just fine…

ISP was not much help - it said I should call my router's company (but we all know I can't do that since I have Tomato installed). What could be going on here?!

If you see private IP on your WAN and you can still access the internet, it means two things:

1. Your ISP ran out of IPv4 so they cannot allocate anymore to you.
2. You are assigned private IP within their network

So technically, your PC is in a private network, within another private network of the ISP. You can yell at your ISP, get them to allocate you IPv4, or migrate to IPv6. Or you can vote with your money and go to another ISP.

I figured out the issue late last night. Turns out the modem that my ISP provided was ALSO a router, and I did not realize it. Having two routers linked together was messing everything up. The solution was to turn the ISP's device into a "bridge" and then I was able to use my own router per usual. Thanks for the input.