Huawei HG630b Port Forwaded | Unable to use Public IP address from Inside Home Network

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ajith339

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#175076 16-Jun-2015 15:41

Hi Good People here

Can anyone Please Help me.

I have Spark Fiber connection with Huawei HG630b which is port forwarded at port 80 to acces my Phillips Hue from internet. I can access Hue bridge from internet using my public IP, however i am not able to access the bridge using my public IP, once i am at home connected to my home WiFi. Have to swithc over to internal ip address maually every time.
It was possible to always use my Public IP to connect (at home as well as away from home) when i was on VDSL and using a Technicolor GW.

Any suggestions to make this to work ???

slingynz

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#1325935 16-Jun-2015 17:10

Pretty sure NAT loopback doesn't work on HG630b.

edit: Also, you shouldn't port forward to your bridge as you are opening up a new attack vector into your private network.
You should be controlling it via meethue.com when not in your network.

roobarb

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#1325995 16-Jun-2015 18:37

You can use a local DNS to solve this problem, Use a raspberry PI as a DNS server and have mappings for local machines pointing to the LAN. You can set up a dyndns style name for looking up when external, and have a mapping for that same name on your LAN. Your router would then give you your local DNS server IP by DHCP.

ajith339

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#1326188 16-Jun-2015 23:17

slingynz: Pretty sure NAT loopback doesn't work on HG630b.

edit: Also, you shouldn't port forward to your bridge as you are opening up a new attack vector into your private network.
You should be controlling it via meethue.com when not in your network.

Thanks for your reply. I am using Hue pro app and Hue tasker to automate on/off functions when i enter/leave my Wifi network.
Is this possible through meethue.com ?

slingynz

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#1326448 17-Jun-2015 12:02

Not directly. It should be possible using IFTTT though.