OK, my site is back up after having been down since Friday, the 18th. My Cisco 678 seems to have stopped responding to the LAN side of things, although all the blinkenlights looked OK. I couldn't ping the backside of the thing, no matter what I did, so I gave up and bought a Zoom X4 ADSL Modem/Router. Setting up the X4 was not a real big deal, although Qwest didn't give me a lot of help (it's not a supported piece). However, once the X4 was online, my Linksys WRT54G just wasn't doing it's thing. I figured that replacing the modem would be a plug-n-play thing and that once it was working, the rest would be gravy. Wrong and wrong. I had a real heck of a time getting the Linksys working in the new config, so I was stuck with boring old wired networking, and a website that wasn't.

However, Zoom's tech support proved to be quite awesome (I was very pleasantly surprised by this), and after quite a bit of back-n-forth, my network is back up. It was all my fault, of course. At some point while I was thrashing around trying to get the Linksys to work again, I must have set it to 'router' mode, when it should have been in 'gateway' mode. I must have further combined that with some other stupidity that I reset later. Anyway, one day while pondering the Linksys' admin screens for the umpteenth time, I noticed this mis-setting, and fixed it. Instant wireless joy!

Now I was wire-free, but my website wasn't up. Somehow, in the Cisco days I'd had one static WAN IP assigned to the Cisco, and another to the Linksys. My domain name was associated to the Linksys' IP addx. Just how this worked, I haven't the faintest - but my Linksys now resides on a subnet with the X4 because there was just no way it was going to work with a static WAN IP address. Anyway, I had the requisite HTTP port forwarded on both routers, but I could not get a port scan to show the port. I also could not browse the site using my static IP. Over the course of a day or so, it slowly hit me that maybe I just couldn't see my site from inside my network. So, I ran on over to Gibson Research to sic their port scanner on my IP address. Sure enough, it showed port 80 available. I IM'd a friend my static IP address and asked her to try my site. Yep, she could see it. So, I updated my DNS records, and now I'm in business. Well, except that I still can't browse my site from inside my net using my WAN static IP or domain name.

Can someone out there tell me how my network could have worked as it was before? My Cisco was assigned a static WAN IP, and the Linksys was assigned another one. Is there some magic that the Cisco did on Qwest's network that made this config work?

Can someone also tell me why I can't browse my own damn website from within my network?