Simple question about port fowarding and default server

Hey everyone,

I've got a problem with my Airport Extreme. Behind my airport extreme are a few devices that need some special configuration. An xbox 360 that needs an 'Open NAT' for gaming, and a Mac Mini server (usenet/torrent + media center) that needs a few ports forwarded for web interfaces.

The xbox 360 has to be set as default server for the NAT, if it isn't (and even if I forward the ports it needs and enable UPnP), it complains about a moderate or strict NAT. So the ideal thing here is to set the xbox 360 as default server.

In my understanding, a default server is where all ports are redirected to, standard. But I need a few ports (like 8081, to be redirected to my mac mini).

I assumed when setting up the 360 as a default server, and adding the port forwarding rules, I would be able to access the web interfaces from a remote location. But that's not possible. It's as if the default server overrides any specific port-forwarding rules. Is that correct?

If so, how could I solve this problem? The web interfaces are always accessed through a certain domain name. Could I route any requests through that domain name to the mini or something?

Thanks in advance for your time.
Regards,
Jan

Turns out it was working all along. My ISP changed my IP address which caused the problems.

Consider running dyndns - and pointing to your registered address instead of an ip address - this should alleviate those kinds of problems.
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For completeness - on most routers you can have a default server and still have some NAT translations going to other computers. But I don't think you can route to both unless you get really fancy. I have not tried on the apple products but my netgear lets me put machines in the dmz - letting all ports get hit - but still lets me setup port forwarding certain ports. I don't believe those port forwarded ports go to the dmz machine anymore. So I don't think I could run 2 ssh servers on the same router (without some extra hardware)

Thanks for your reply. I've already had dyndns for a while (I believe the Airport Extreme even updated the dyndns provider, didn't even need to install it on the Mini) but I've changed to one of my own domain names recently. Since I have a static IP it's not much of a problem. I made some recent changes in my network that caused a reset and caused the IP to change, so that's where the problem did arise.

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