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Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 34188

Unable to access a locally hosted wcf service over the internet

i have hosted a wcf service in our office machine and which is being accessible from other pc in LAN. our office has static IP. so how can i access my wcf service from the out side of office if i know the static ip of our office.

now i am accessing the service from lan using this url http://192.168.6.2:7741/Services/CustomerService

if our office static ip is 122.160.187.236 then can i access my service just replace the ip address with static ip address ? please tell me all require steps to access wcf service over the internet. thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1462

Answers (3)

Angel
Angel

Reputation: 1

If you want to access your WCF Service from outside your LAN, from the internet, you need to assign a DNS Server outside on the internet that can assign to you a public static IP Address, because your LAN is most probably using a DHCP to lease a temporary static private IP Address. Some DNS server are free and other you need to pay a monthly fee.

Upvotes: 0

Nieldev
Nieldev

Reputation: 211

You will need to forward the port 7741 on the router to the 192.168.6.2 IP address.

You'll have to ask someone who has access to the router to do this. Not sure what your environment is like but on your general router these settings will generally fall under 'advanced settings > NAT

Check out http://portforward.com/ for info on port forwarding.

Also, if you have a firewall, you need to ensure that traffic via port 7741 is allowed.

This is probably the quickest way to achieve what you want, but not the most secure. Establishing a VPN would be better but I'm not going to open that can of worms now.

Niel

Upvotes: 1

paramosh
paramosh

Reputation: 2258

it's not enough to know only IP of your network if you want access your machine from outside. Probably you should talk to administrator of your network to either establish virtual private network or assign external IP address to your machine. Actually the question related mostly to network administration and configuration, but not to WCF.

Upvotes: 0

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