[Q] Cannot connect to freeDNS.org Subdomain - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

I have used freeDNS.org to access my computer via a domain (mydomain.com forwards to my computer IP address).
This works well with my Samsung Vibrant and my wife's Samsung Exhibit II, but when I try to connect with my Galaxy Nexus the gateway times out. I can connect directly to my IP address, but not the domain I have set up.
Any ideas?

Download the Net Status app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.stat.app
Try pinging your domain, make sure it is returning the right IP address and not something other than your actual IP.

Pinging is disabled for all freeDNS.org domains.
Running queries from dnsquery.org shows that the DNS is forwarding to my correct IP address.

Your carrier may be blocking access to your external IP address. You would still be able to connect to it from your phone because it's within the carrier's mobile network. T-Mobile does this in certain locations.

strumcat said:
Your carrier may be blocking access to your external IP address. You would still be able to connect to it from your phone because it's within the carrier's mobile network. T-Mobile does this in certain locations.
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You must not have fully read my post. My other phone and my wife's phone, both on the same carrier as my GNex, are both able to connect.

creeve4 said:
You must not have fully read my post. My other phone and my wife's phone, both on the same carrier as my GNex, are both able to connect.
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Yep, I did misread it, sorry.
Only things I can think of are try a different browser on the gnex, and make sure you don't have a firewall or antivirus program set up to inadvertantly block the freedns subdomain. Strange problem. Surely has to do with some software/setup on the gnex.

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Connected ti WiFi router, but IE not connecting to Sites

Hey guys, I just recently got my Softbank and upgraded to WM6 this morning. All is good except for my WiFi. The phone is able to connect to my router but when I try to go to sites with IE it gives me this error:
"THe page cannot be displayed or downloaded because connection was lost. Check the connection and try again"
Sites show up fine with EDGE, but IE does not show sites via WiFi. Router even shwos the phone connected to it and that an IP is assigned.
Excuse my ignorance, I am new and any help and advice is greatly appreciated.
Try this ...
kman79 said:
Hey guys, I just recently got my Softbank and upgraded to WM6 this morning. All is good except for my WiFi. The phone is able to connect to my router but when I try to go to sites with IE it gives me this error:
"THe page cannot be displayed or downloaded because connection was lost. Check the connection and try again"
Sites show up fine with EDGE, but IE does not show sites via WiFi. Router even shwos the phone connected to it and that an IP is assigned.
Excuse my ignorance, I am new and any help and advice is greatly appreciated.
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Click-start>settings>connections tab>wi-fi>network adapters>
make sure your ieee 802.11b/g compatible wi-fi Ad....is connecting you to "The Internet" and not "Work." Cheers
Thanks for the reply. I verified that, checked it and double checked, but I'm still getting the same error. Are there other settings I need to change or look at?
Check these as well...
kman79 said:
Thanks for the reply. I verified that, checked it and double checked, but I'm still getting the same error. Are there other settings I need to change or look at?
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start>settings>connections>wi-fi:
1. Click on your wirless SSID which should say connected.
2. Make sure it says connected to the internet.
3. Select the "This is a hidden network."
4. Make sure all of your keys/passwords are correct.
start>settings>connections>wireless LAN:
1. Make sure it is connected with good strength.
2. Verify It gave you an ip on the Advanced Tab.
3. Turn the Power Mode all the way up to Best Performance.
In your router verify you are not blocking or mac address filtering this connection. You might want to reserve the IP address for you device MAC.
kman79 said:
Thanks for the reply. I verified that, checked it and double checked, but I'm still getting the same error. Are there other settings I need to change or look at?
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Worked for myself and others... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=300887&page=5
(post #44)
I tried the settings and still no go. I'm using a Linksys router and I have it set up to where the router assigns the phone a specific IP. According to the router, the phone is connected and according to the phone, the phone is connected. Should the GPRS(EDGE) be active and connected at the same time? Cause it is, how do I manually disable it? I feel really stupid if this is why.
prodigalfish: Is that cab only for use with cingular network? I'm on tmobile network, so I'm not sure if I could use that cab. I will do a hard reset though, haven't tried that yet.
Yes It does matter....
kman79 said:
I tried the settings and still no go. I'm using a Linksys router and I have it set up to where the router assigns the phone a specific IP. According to the router, the phone is connected and according to the phone, the phone is connected. Should the GPRS(EDGE) be active and connected at the same time? Cause it is, how do I manually disable it? I feel really stupid if this is why.
prodigalfish: Is that cab only for use with cingular network? I'm on tmobile network, so I'm not sure if I could use that cab. I will do a hard reset though, haven't tried that yet.
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TURN IT OFF!!!
Inside of activesync you must tell it allow wireless / data connection. If you press and hold the hangup red button the GRPS connection will drop. You can also turn it off in the comm manager.
Did you ever solve this problem as I am having exactly the same the one.
1. Wifi works fine, can transfer files over the network, Skype connects etc
2. Only PIE (PIEPlus) does not connect to web pages.
I have done everything mentioned here. Hmm
Wam7 said:
Did you ever solve this problem as I am having exactly the same the one.
1. Wifi works fine, can transfer files over the network, Skype connects etc
2. Only PIE (PIEPlus) does not connect to web pages.
I have done everything mentioned here. Hmm
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My guess is that the version of PIE you are using (or PIEPlus) has a hard-coded proxy address that your device cannot reach. I use Opera myself, works much better than PIE (IMHO).
John
Have you tried changing the authentication to Shared instead of Open?
This worked for me.
I have the same problem with these newest roms, just after set up 3G connection(Softbank by using ConnSBM).
It worked fine with roms before 5/15th.

[Q] Change device id for wifi?

My wife and I both have evo's. When at home on wifi my netgear wgr614v7 router seems to have issues connecting both properly. It seems to be a device name problem. Both phones have the same name, different mac addresses but the router us giving them both the same ip address. I have setup static routes to each phone, which helps get different ip's, but I'm still having connection problems with one phone when both are being used.
Is there a way to change the name that my evo broadcasts to my router?
Hers is stock and I am using Fresh's rom.
travlincablguy said:
I have setup static routes to each phone, which helps get different ip's
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They will anyway get different IP's (I'm talking about private IP 192.168.*.*), for device id maybe someone can edit that in .wireless tether .apk for you because as far I can see that part is kind of integrated and hidden inside.
I am not using the tether function. The static route I setup ensures that every time my evo with it's mac address ending in :d2 always gets 192.168.0.6, Heather's phone is always .3.
Thanks for your input, but I don't think you understood what I was asking.
travlincablguy said:
My wife and I both have evo's. When at home on wifi my netgear wgr614v7 router seems to have issues connecting both properly. It seems to be a device name problem. Both phones have the same name, different mac addresses but the router us giving them both the same ip address. I have setup static routes to each phone, which helps get different ip's, but I'm still having connection problems with one phone when both are being used.
Is there a way to change the name that my evo broadcasts to my router?
Hers is stock and I am using Fresh's rom.
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I'm thinking you could change the device name in the build.prop in the system folder.
Ahhah, thank you sir, I will look into that.
Edit: after looking threw build.prop I could not find the device id. Which is a bummer. I finally talked my wife out of her iphone and she is now a bit pissy about not being able to use the internet at the same time. No 3 or 4g service at the house either. We have to use an airrave to talk on the phone.
What's the device name in your router?
Also, FWIW, your router shouldn't have any problems with two different MAC addresses connecting. DHCP ID is irrelevant. It sounds more like your problem is a bad router, you're on the edge of its range, or there's something deeper wrong (ie, some other piece of network hardware). As far as I know, you can't change the DHCP Client ID on the phone. It's always been android_(sting of letters/numbers) for me, and it correlates with the Exchange device ID (if you use an Exchange account).
That is the id that shows up. I am thinking the router needs to go. I cannot live without any of the devices that I have connected to it. I do appreciate your insight.
Heh, you good sir are in luck:
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,2164
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,2165
CyanogenMod 7 ('unno about 6) just got a feature to let you change the DHCP client ID.

802.1x wifi problem | galaxy gio

Hey,
I want to connect to a 802.1x security wifi network on my school, it does connect.
It sais I am connected but I can't browse the web and all my apps dont refresh either.
Is there anyway I can fix this? Maybe with some setting or change in root?
work fine on mine
I'll install cm9 as soon as I can, and see if it fixes my probs. Otherwise it could be a chipset problem, that it just doesnt support. Some other people on my school also cant connect (budget phones).
I think its weird that some devices can connect and others not, on my school, some galaxy s or galaxy ace will connect while others can't. I have cyanogenmod 7.2 with android 2.3.7! I think it should work but someway it keeps connected, so I am connected to the router, but I can't browse the net. Maybe it cant open default gateway in someway?
maybe that router is not compatible .. i have the same problem in some places..
I think it's weird some devices connect and other do not, maybe it has to due with diffrence in android versions? I use cyanogenmod 7.2, android gingerbread 2.3.7
Oi, there is so much that could be going on here...
Its an Atheros AR6003G chip, which as far as i know, supports 802.11 A/B/G/N, and hardware encryption for WEP/WPA...
Odds are, if its an 802.1x type network, the chip will do the encrypting/decrypting after the handshake is completed, provided its set up correctly. WEP and WPA are set up by using a Pre-shared Key that all users need to have... If you study how to recover the key, you'll find that the hash is created by taking the plaintext passkey, running it through the specified algorithm, then salting it with the name of the network. So long as all devices have the correct network name and the correct plaintext password, any device can connect to the network, because they'll all end up with the same hash.
802.1x encryption is different. It uses an authentication server. This makes it similar to any modern computer you log onto. You provide the computer with your credentials, and it checks it against the server. If they match, then you are allowed access. If they don't you get an error message. Which means, that if anything is broken, it won't work. If you don't use the correct authentication protocol, it won't work. If you don't have the right certificates, it won't work.
Best advice I can give is, double check everything. Make sure your Gio has the correct certificates and that its using the correct protocols. Double check your IP/Subnet Mask/Gateway addresses. If you don't have an IP address, you'll have to manually configure it. If the Subnet Mask is incorrect or the Gateway address is incorrect, it won't work either. Also, check your DNS server addresses. If those aren't correct it won't load any webpages using URLs. It will only load them using the IP address of the server. Which means, telling the browser to go to www.google.com won't work, but if you tell it to go to 173.194.67.99:80, it will load the Google homepage.
Hopefully this will give you somewhere to start...
Yes true, only problem is that static IP's dont work, otherwise I could just copy the DNS and gateway numbers from a device it does work on. It uses DHCP and I think that I have the problem you told about.I dont think our school uses certificates cause a friend of my (Galaxy S) can connect without having installed certificates or something.
I think its an hardware isue and it cant decrypt the code well, my WIFI indicator stays white, with internet acces it should turn blue or green.
runedegroot said:
Yes true, only problem is that static IP's dont work, otherwise I could just copy the DNS and gateway numbers from a device it does work on. It uses DHCP and I think that I have the problem you told about.I dont think our school uses certificates cause a friend of my (Galaxy S) can connect without having installed certificates or something.
I think its an hardware isue and it cant decrypt the code well, my WIFI indicator stays white, with internet acces it should turn blue or green.
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What if you go to wifi settings- menu button - advanced settings- 'regulier domein' I know you are dutch, dont know how it is called in english, something like regular domain I guess.
Then set it to 11 13 or 14 try them out, fixes my wifi, also at school with 8.11x connection mode
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runedegroot said:
Yes true, only problem is that static IP's dont work, otherwise I could just copy the DNS and gateway numbers from a device it does work on. It uses DHCP and I think that I have the problem you told about.I dont think our school uses certificates cause a friend of my (Galaxy S) can connect without having installed certificates or something.
I think its an hardware isue and it cant decrypt the code well, my WIFI indicator stays white, with internet acces it should turn blue or green.
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That is very very odd... I use a Linksys WRT54G2 router at home, and its set up for DHCP. Its address is the standard 192.168.1.1, and it can address 50 clients between the addresses of 192.168.1.100 and 192.168.1.149. However, if i set my computer up to use static settings, it works just fine... Granted the networks are probably set up differently.... but the theory should work just fine...
Code:
IP: 192.168.1.4
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.1
DNS: 64.59.160.13, 64.59.160.15
Are you positive it doesn't work?
If you can get me the encryption type, IP address, Subnet Mask and Gateway address your friends phone uses, I may be able to help more... The more information you can get me, the better.
The only reason I can think of that would cause it to not work is that the IP address is already in use, or the Subnet mask is incorrect... It shouldn't matter what IP address you use, so long as the subnet mask and gateway are correct... In theory anyway...
I'll gather them and put them in a post!
Thanks for your help so far,
Im on the same school as runedegroot but the neteork does work for me, and i dont think a stattic ip will work cause the network is spread over a lot of routers so if any other phone gets that ip via dhcp it wont work anymore
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Well, apparently DHCP doesn't work for him, so whats he have to loose?
Although that's quite interesting... What phone do you use, and whats the network information you have when you're connected to your school's network?
voetbalremco said:
What if you go to wifi settings- menu button - advanced settings- 'regulier domein' I know you are dutch, dont know how it is called in english, something like regular domain I guess.
Then set it to 11 13 or 14 try them out, fixes my wifi, also at school with 8.11x connection mode
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I'll try, it didn't give me positive feedback when I tried it on MC 7.2, I'll try monday.
Btw, voetbalremco is a dutch name, you also have a dutch thumbnail, but you aint dutch?
atirox said:
Well, apparently DHCP doesn't work for him, so whats he have to loose?
Although that's quite interesting... What phone do you use, and whats the network information you have when you're connected to your school's network?
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I use galaxy gio, gt-s5660. Maybe willie1001 knows it, I can't see it when I'm at home.
I have the same problem
runedegroot said:
I'll try, it didn't give me positive feedback when I tried it on MC 7.2, I'll try monday.
Btw, voetbalremco is a dutch name, you also have a dutch thumbnail, but you aint dutch?
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Im dutch, but the forum is english so I also post in english, I dont like it neither if people post in polish or whatever I cant read..
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runedegroot said:
I use galaxy gio, gt-s5660. Maybe willie1001 knows it, I can't see it when I'm at home.
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Actually that was for willie1001...
And its possible that changing the reguatory domain could work. If you're running software designed for the states, it would disable any channel above 11... But then again, if you can "see" the wireless network in the settings menu, it would make sense that its programmed to use a channel isn't above channel 11... Which would mean that changing the regulatory domain wouldn't help it at all...
Come to think of it, if your MAC address is blocked, it wouldn't allow you access... But then again, you'd have to do something for the school to block your MAC address. And if the other students can access it, then it would have to be specifically you who did something to piss off a teacher.
Also, any information you can get me about the router would help greatly. By figuring out the manufacturer of the router and the model number of the router, its possible to narrow down the likely IP addresses that the router would use..
atirox said:
Actually that was for willie1001...
And its possible that changing the reguatory domain could work. If you're running software designed for the states, it would disable any channel above 11... But then again, if you can "see" the wireless network in the settings menu, it would make sense that its programmed to use a channel isn't above channel 11... Which would mean that changing the regulatory domain wouldn't help it at all...
Come to think of it, if your MAC address is blocked, it wouldn't allow you access... But then again, you'd have to do something for the school to block your MAC address. And if the other students can access it, then it would have to be specifically you who did something to piss off a teacher.
Also, any information you can get me about the router would help greatly. By figuring out the manufacturer of the router and the model number of the router, its possible to narrow down the likely IP addresses that the router would use..
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Haha no, I didn't piss of a teacher
I think it's a gio problem, willie1001 has the galaxy s with cyanogenmod 9.
I have gio with cyanogenmod 9. But it also didnts work with stock or cyanogenmod 7.
I will send you some information I can see on my phone, if I won't forget it
runedegroot said:
Haha no, I didn't piss of a teacher
I think it's a gio problem, willie1001 has the galaxy s with cyanogenmod 9.
I have gio with cyanogenmod 9. But it also didnts work with stock or cyanogenmod 7.
I will send you some information I can see on my phone, if I won't forget it
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Man, thats odd... I assume you aren't on the North American continent... Where did you pick your Gio up from?
You know... Its possible that the issue you have was fixed in a base band (modem) update... You could try flashing the phone to the latest OE firmware (Not necessarily the one that came with your carrier as branded firmware tends to take forever to get updated), and see if that works...

[Q] Tinycam, IP webcam, and portforwarding

Guys I am in over my head here, I've watched way too many YouTube videos and guides and I still cant get this.
I have 2 galaxy nexus phones and I am trying to leave one at home running the app IP webcam and taking video. That phone will be connected to my WiFi network at home. Then I am trying to use my other nexus phone running Tinycam Monitor and connected to Verizon's 4g network, to connect to that phone and stream me live video from home.
Now basically I am looking for someone who has set this up correctly or who could help talk me through this.
I have set up a static ip address
I went to my linksys routers web address and tried to port-forward ports 8080 and 80 which are the ones I need
Its not working though and it keeps saying failed connection on the phone. I think I am just typing in something wrong or missing a step.
Can anyone try and help me through this?
Use your IP address and 100 instead of 80
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vhgomez36 said:
Use your IP address and 100 instead of 80
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
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Where are you talking about? You mean when I am forwarding the port on the linksys web interface? It asks me for the internal and external port (which I am typing in 8080) and then it asks for the "to ip address"
I am really unsure of what to put in the "To IP address" field. It shows my ip address but leaves blank the last few digits. Am I supposed to get that information from the phone from which I will be viewing the video?
bhawks23 said:
Where are you talking about? You mean when I am forwarding the port on the linksys web interface? It asks me for the internal and external port (which I am typing in 8080) and then it asks for the "to ip address"
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Example.
vhgomez36 said:
Example.
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Thanks for the reply, but I am still a little confused on what you are trying to say.
When I start up IP webcam it begins the video and it gives me an ip address and port number to connect to it. (this phone is on home wifi)
When I type those detail in tinycam monitor on my other phone (connected to verizon network), I add a new camera, set it to IP webcam for android, type the the previous ip hostname and port but it always fails to connect
I understand I need to portforward the port I am using to allow it to connect but I dont think I am doing that correctly
Make sure you port forward on your router to allow the connection.
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bhawks23 said:
Thanks for the reply, but I am still a little confused on what you are trying to say.
When I start up IP webcam it begins the video and it gives my an ip address and port number to connect to it. (this phone is on home wifi)
When I type those detail in tinycam monitor on my other phone (connected to verizon network), I add a new camera, set it to IP webcam for android, type the the previous ip hostname and port but it always fails to connect
I understand I need to portforward the port I am using to allow it to connect but I dont think I am doing that correctly
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What happens if you turn on Wifi on your phone? Does it work then? You need the public domain IP address where your DVR is connected. I have the info. at home. I'll grab it tomorrow in case you still need the info.
handle223 said:
Make sure you port forward on your router to allow the connection.
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Yeah handle223 that is the step where I believe that I am messing up at. I followed a guide that said I need to port forward 8080 and 80 ports so I tried to do that. I'm just not sure what to enter into the "to ip address" field on linksys website. Am I supposed to put my computers ip or something from either of the phones?
vhgomez36 said:
What happens if you turn on Wifi on your phone? Does it work then? You need the public domain IP address where your DVR is connected. I have the info. at home. I'll grab it tomorrow in case you still need the info.
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Yes it works fine when the phone is connected to wifi so I'm trying to get it to work while away from home on a mobile network. Yeah if you could help me out tomorrow that would be great. Thanks for the help already
bhawks23 said:
Yes it works fine when the phone is connected to wifi so I'm trying to get it to work while away from home on a mobile network. Yeah if you could help me out tomorrow that would be great. Thanks for the help already
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There your problem...wrong IP address. I can help you more tomorrow when I get home.
vhgomez36 said:
There your problem...wrong IP address. I can help you more tomorrow when I get home.
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Sounds good man thanks
Essentially, what you need to do is:
1. Set your home phone up with a static IP address. You can normally do this by connecting your phone to wifi, and then going to the control interface for your router and fixing the IP address to that device (look under DHCP settings).
2. Forward an external port (e.g. 8080) of your static home IP address to the http port (80) on the IP address you just assigned permanently to your home phone. This will be under port forwarding in your router interface. The internal port is the one the home phone tells you when you start the webcam program.
3. Contact your ISP and ensure that a) you have a static IP (if not, you can register a dynamic one at e.g. dyn.com, and get software which will update it periodically); and b) that port 8080 is not blocked at their end. You can check your home external IP address on your router page, or if you cbf, go to ip4.me in a web browser and it will tell you.
4. With your external phone, with the wifi off, set your viewer up so that it looks for your router's external IP address and port 8080.
NOTE:
This is not a particularly sophisticated way of setting this up. Please consider the possibility that a technologically competent thief could use this as a way of casing your joint so they can rob you while you're out. Please at least a) ensure you have a strong password on your camera; and b) consider using a non-standard port rather than 8080 as your external port.
The more sophisticated way of doing this involves being able to ssh into your home network using e.g. PuTTY, and using this connection to do tunneling. I run an SSH server on my nexus sometimes (though I don't use it for this purpose), so it is definitely possible for this to be your phone. You can then remote into your home network and then use the camera client as if you were connected via wifi at home. Sing out if you'd like a hand setting up SSH, as it's actually not as hard as it sounds.
m.is.for.michael said:
Essentially, what you need to do is:
1. Set your home phone up with a static IP address. You can normally do this by connecting your phone to wifi, and then going to the control interface for your router and fixing the IP address to that device (look under DHCP settings).
2. Forward an external port (e.g. 8080) of your static home IP address to the http port (80) on the IP address you just assigned permanently to your home phone. This will be under port forwarding in your router interface. The internal port is the one the home phone tells you when you start the webcam program.
3. Contact your ISP and ensure that a) you have a static IP (if not, you can register a dynamic one at e.g. dyn.com, and get software which will update it periodically); and b) that port 8080 is not blocked at their end. You can check your home external IP address on your router page, or if you cbf, go to ip4.me in a web browser and it will tell you.
4. With your external phone, with the wifi off, set your viewer up so that it looks for your router's external IP address and port 8080.
NOTE:
This is not a particularly sophisticated way of setting this up. Please consider the possibility that a technologically competent thief could use this as a way of casing your joint so they can rob you while you're out. Please at least a) ensure you have a strong password on your camera; and b) consider using a non-standard port rather than 8080 as your external port.
The more sophisticated way of doing this involves being able to ssh into your home network using e.g. PuTTY, and using this connection to do tunneling. I run an SSH server on my nexus sometimes (though I don't use it for this purpose), so it is definitely possible for this to be your phone. You can then remote into your home network and then use the camera client as if you were connected via wifi at home. Sing out if you'd like a hand setting up SSH, as it's actually not as hard as it sounds.
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To the OP, This is what you have to do. Everything is set up correctly on the phone is what it seems like but without a static IP from your internet service provider you're going to run into issues again the minute it changes it's IP address.
You'll have to connect to your router from the outside world (The internet) via the address that shows up in your router page under status. from there you connect to the port you specified with port forwarding and it'll connect to your phone from anywhere you're located outside of your home wifi.
m.is.for.michael said:
Essentially, what you need to do is:
1. Set your home phone up with a static IP address. You can normally do this by connecting your phone to wifi, and then going to the control interface for your router and fixing the IP address to that device (look under DHCP settings).
2. Forward an external port (e.g. 8080) of your static home IP address to the http port (80) on the IP address you just assigned permanently to your home phone. This will be under port forwarding in your router interface. The internal port is the one the home phone tells you when you start the webcam program.
3. Contact your ISP and ensure that a) you have a static IP (if not, you can register a dynamic one at e.g. dyn.com, and get software which will update it periodically); and b) that port 8080 is not blocked at their end. You can check your home external IP address on your router page, or if you cbf, go to ip4.me in a web browser and it will tell you.
4. With your external phone, with the wifi off, set your viewer up so that it looks for your router's external IP address and port 8080.
NOTE:
This is not a particularly sophisticated way of setting this up. Please consider the possibility that a technologically competent thief could use this as a way of casing your joint so they can rob you while you're out. Please at least a) ensure you have a strong password on your camera; and b) consider using a non-standard port rather than 8080 as your external port.
The more sophisticated way of doing this involves being able to ssh into your home network using e.g. PuTTY, and using this connection to do tunneling. I run an SSH server on my nexus sometimes (though I don't use it for this purpose), so it is definitely possible for this to be your phone. You can then remote into your home network and then use the camera client as if you were connected via wifi at home. Sing out if you'd like a hand setting up SSH, as it's actually not as hard as it sounds.
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Yes! That was extremely helpful and thanks for describing it in detail.
It took me about 20 minutes but now it is working perfectly and I am able to stream live video from wherever I wish. (It is working better than I thought on 4g also)
I had to create a static id for my home mobile phone and that was under DHCP settings like you said. That allowed me to properly open up the ports
Thanks for the help everyone and I'm glad I didn't give up because this is pretty sweet, and also I do understand the risks.
On a side note, what kind of strain would this put on my extra nexus if I was running IP webcam 24/7? (while plugged in of course) Guess I will find out
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m.is.for.michael said:
Essentially, what you need to do is:
1. Set your home phone up with a static IP address. You can normally do this by connecting your phone to wifi, and then going to the control interface for your router and fixing the IP address to that device (look under DHCP settings).
2. Forward an external port (e.g. 8080) of your static home IP address to the http port (80) on the IP address you just assigned permanently to your home phone. This will be under port forwarding in your router interface. The internal port is the one the home phone tells you when you start the webcam program.
3. Contact your ISP and ensure that a) you have a static IP (if not, you can register a dynamic one at e.g. dyn.com, and get software which will update it periodically); and b) that port 8080 is not blocked at their end. You can check your home external IP address on your router page, or if you cbf, go to ip4.me in a web browser and it will tell you.
4. With your external phone, with the wifi off, set your viewer up so that it looks for your router's external IP address and port 8080.
NOTE:
This is not a particularly sophisticated way of setting this up. Please consider the possibility that a technologically competent thief could use this as a way of casing your joint so they can rob you while you're out. Please at least a) ensure you have a strong password on your camera; and b) consider using a non-standard port rather than 8080 as your external port.
The more sophisticated way of doing this involves being able to ssh into your home network using e.g. PuTTY, and using this connection to do tunneling. I run an SSH server on my nexus sometimes (though I don't use it for this purpose), so it is definitely possible for this to be your phone. You can then remote into your home network and then use the camera client as if you were connected via wifi at home. Sing out if you'd like a hand setting up SSH, as it's actually not as hard as it sounds.
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Hi..
is it possible to do this with two mobile phones and without a static ip using mobile network only? somehow sending video signal to some free host using mobile internet?
like one phone stays at home connected to mobile internet as ip camera.. and with second I can watch the video from anywhere???
because when i create a local network with one and connect to it with other then all this works great...
OLD post i know but i figured id post in here just in case you guys are still around.
I have a S4 ( i don't think this matters)
But just like the OP. I have these 2 apps . The stream works fine in house (both on my wifi) but i cannot figure out how to get it connected off of wifi. the monitoring phone i am trying to use i turned the wifi off to use the 4glte but it just wont connect. I do have ports 8080 and 80 forwarded.
But what IP and port do i use the the connecting phones settings? the 192..... one is internal and works in the wifi but i tried that one and the external ip.... any ideas?
(the external IP i am using is the one from googling "whats my ip" inside the cams phone web browser so its the ip from the phone not pc)

[Q] Ip address switches between tmobil and DoD

So no to long ago I decided I would check the my phone's ip address and came across some questionable stuff. Here's my question:
1) How is it that my phone's ip address can change from being registered to tmobil on a 100.x.x.x address to sporadically being registered on DoD 30.x.x.x address?
2) How can it still happen even after I installed android firewall?
Conditions are always the same. I don't download any shady anything's. I pay for my rhapsody account and that's as far as my file sharing goes. I never have my WiFi enabled.
Any ideas or let me know what info you'd need to better access the situation. Thanks.
Without knowing what the allocated ip address really was, there it's really no way of knowing who the current owner of the block is, many blocks are relocated and may no longer be with who they used to be with, especially ipv4 blocks.
Not sure what android firewall would have to due with what the remote ip you are being allocated to with your dhcp network connection.
You should have no real control over what your network connection is given when you connect, other than possible controlling ipv6 vs ipv4.
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Without knowing what the allocated ip address really was, there it's really no way of knowing who the current owner of the block is, many blocks are relocated and may no longer be with who they used to be with, especially ipv4 blocks.
Not sure what android firewall would have to due with what the remote ip you are being allocated to with your dhcp network connection.
You should have no real control over what your network connection is given when you connect, other than possible controlling ipv6 vs ipv4.
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So does this help? the firewall lets me know that even though I have set it up to refuse the block of addresses in which in resides, they're still connection to my phone.
Not sure I'm understanding you anyway. You telling me they temporarily relocate my up because they re no longer with.... yet after a few minutes , sometimes hours, I'm right back to the same ip?
What he was saying I believe is that the IPv4 allocations have been changing do to the available IP address blocks running thin. Companies were encouraged to give up IP blocks that they weren't actually using. In simple terms, a company might have originally owned a block of 100,000 IPs but never actually used more than 50,000. So they gave back a block of 50,000 so another company(s) could use them instead.
I don't believe the IP address' are static on a carrier. I'm not sure but each time you connect to the carrier network (no signal or airplane mode) you could be giving a fresh IP address. Also that is certainly the case if you are on a WiFi network. Unless you phone was set up as a static connection, you would likely receive a new lease on an IP address.
Found this which sounds similar to what you are seeing.
https://blog.wireshark.org/2010/04/t-mobile-clever-or-insane/
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Found this which sounds similar to what you are seeing.
https://blog.wireshark.org/2010/04/t-mobile-clever-or-insane/
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Exactly. Internal allocate IP's are normally Natt'd and not actuall the IP you show up on the Internet as.
When you connect to your provider for Network (not using WiFi), the provider (most likely T-Mobile) will allocate an IP to you via DHCP. That IP is what your phone uses to talk to the provider. It most likely is NOT what you look like when you hit the Internet though, that will most likely be a different IP because TMobile is most likely not providing you with an Internet routable IP.
So, right now, I turned off WiFi and I got the IP 100.143.28.84. When my phone touches the Internet though, it shows up as 206.29.182.169.
So at that point in time, my phone is using 100.143.28.84 to get to T-Mobile's network and the Internet sees my phone as 206.29.182.169. the outside IP is in TMobiles published block. And why the internal IP is also, it really doesn't matter what it is because that is not what your phone looks like when it gets to the Internet.
It is possible in your area there are different networks available internally that are given to you when you connect depending on where you physically are and what towers you are closest to. At some times you get the 100.x network and you might even get the same IP as before because of a lease of that IP to your device, but then you move to a slightly different area which is handing out 30.x addresses. All perfectly normal. and the internal IP's really don't matter much.
You can use a search of Whats My IP to see what the Internet thinks your IP is when you get there.
With some providers (Verizon for example) if you are using ipv6, you will always get a non-routable IP, meaning that if you figure out your Internet IP, an outside connection may not get back to you unless your device initiated the connection, but if you use ipv4, they gave you a temp IP that would end up with a routable IP back. You could then use that to connect to your phone using something like VNC or other service. Now days, that is much more likely not the case unless you are paying for that special IP service. I don't know if Tmobile offers that type of service, but Verizon did at least a year or two ago.
In anycase, you firewall shouldn't matter unless you don't want to access your providers network.
In lamens terms I think he's talking about an internel subnet mask
chipworkz said:
Found this which sounds similar to what you are seeing.
https://blog.wireshark.org/2010/04/t-mobile-clever-or-insane/
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That was a very interesting article. If the author's theory is correct, T-mobile was playing some cute and dangerous IP games in 2010.

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