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jc1742 Author

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Can Airport Extreme forward pings?

We have our Airport Extreme to supply wifi and one thing we can find a way to do is make it handle pings as we'd expect. I have a linux (ubuntu) box serving as a web server, and got the Airport to forward port 80 connections to it (which has failed for a couple of other wifi routers we've looked into). But we can't get it to do a few things that are useful on networks. One is pings. If I ping the Airport's address, there's no reply. Is it possible to make this work?

The port 80 (web) example is useful in this case, because a ping is an obvious first thing to try if attempts to reach the web server are failing. But since pings fail when the server is working, pings don't add any information. (Pings do work on the internal network, so it's not the web server machine that's failing.

Posted on Dec 2, 2022 8:15 PM

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Tesserax

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Posted on Dec 2, 2022 9:15 PM

If you goal is to be able to ping your web server from a remote location, using port forwarding to allow pings through would create a security risk. It would be far easier/safer to use dynamic DNS for this. Of course, if you try accessing your web server's hosted web page and that doesn't appear, would be a good indicator that something may be amiss. Anyway, with DDNS, you can establish a remote connection to your web server via a URL. One outfit that provides this service would be no-ip.

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