Help Accessing Gemini Externally

https://www.reddit.com/r/geminiprotocol/comments/1guxkp1/help_accessing_gemini_externally/

created by [deleted] on 19/11/2024 at 13:50 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 top-level comments (showing 1)

Recently, I've been learning about Gemini and wanting to try my hand at it and see what it's like. I've spent the better part of the last day trying to get a server up and running with some various success. At the moment, I currently have an Agate server running on Debian on a headless PC. I have my port forwarding setup so that the right port (1965) should be forward to the Debian server.

The problem is that when using a Gemini client to connect to this server, I continue to get timeouts. Through various testing I know the following:

If I access the server directly (with a Gemini Client) using it's internal IP address (via putting it in my Windows hosts file), I can reach the Gemini server and see the index.gmi content. Additionally, I can see the connection happening on the Debian server via console output.
If I go to a port checking site, say canyouseeme.org[1], and check port 1965, it says that the port is open. I ALSO see on the Debian server that a connect is attempted (but fails do to TLS, as expected).
When I attempt to connect using the Gemini client with the actual DNS name (which is pointing at my IP-address), I get a time out. I also see no connection attempt happening on the Debian server.

So I'm at a lost and don't know what the issue might be. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

1: http://canyouseeme.org

Comments

Comment by UltraChip at 19/11/2024 at 16:39 UTC

1 upvotes, 2 direct replies

The three big things that come to mind are:

1. Make sure there are no firewalls blocking the connection. It's possible a firewall is allowing local traffic over 1965 but blocking external connections.

2. Make sure your public IP is still what you think it is. Many homes are on dynamic IPs and so their addresses change occasionally.

3. Make sure your ISP isn't NAT'ing your address.