Connection refused to a server running on local network

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I'm hosting a game server on my laptop running Ubuntu 10.04.

My friends can connect to the server completely fine, but when I try to access it, I get a "Connection refused: connect" error. All the ports are open, but I have a feeling this has something to do with my router (Buffalo Nfiniti WHR-G300N V2). I also cannot access an Apache server running on the laptop, although others can.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Dragory

Posted 2010-09-12T23:45:05.397

Reputation: 125

How are you trying to connect? Are you using localhost, the DNS name, etc.? – None – 2010-09-12T23:50:50.720

If you're trying to connect to the external IP then the answer chris provided below is probably the issue. – None – 2010-09-13T00:00:44.917

Answers

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Try accessing via your local IP rather than the public IP/name that you provided to your friends.

Your router probably dislikes you attempting to connect to its external IP from the Internal network.

Chris Thorpe

Posted 2010-09-12T23:45:05.397

Reputation: 811

Thank you. I haven't really used stuff in the local area network before, so this came as a little "surprise" to me. – None – 2010-09-13T00:01:46.817

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