192.168.x.x:1500
So I have a small local server running a website. It’s not public facing at all, has a static IP address on my WiFi LAN and can be accessed by any Linux machine. I can’t see it on any iPhone or Android device though
I’ve looked up tutorials on line, ensured my firewalls allow local sharing on the WiFi, double checked I can even ping the server successfully with nmap on Android
Any tips?
::edit:: typo in post, not when searching for IP on LAN
Did you ever figure this out???
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web HTTPS HTTP over SSL IP Internet Protocol SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption VPN Virtual Private Network
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Your network is probably configured with inconsistent subnets / netmasks. iOS / Android are on WiFi and getting a different subnet/netmask than your severs.
Edit: What does pinging the server with nmap mean? Are you checking open ports or pinging the server? That doesn’t make sense or at least leaves us with more questions with the way you worded that. Although the nmap utility can provide both of those answers, I’m not sure that’s what you meant.
I have a very similar issue. Seems like Android will bypass your DNS resolver and thus cannot resolve your local names.
I have my home services on “home.my domain.com” accessible from outside and re-mapped to “192.168.0.1” (my internal server IP) at home, and all PCs can access it while all android phones can only resolve to the public IP.
I feel it’s something related to DoT or similar but haven’t yet dig in that.
Have you tried different browsers? You should also enter the full URL sometimes they’re a bit stupid nowadays. So http://192.168.x.x:1500/
Maybe the browsers bring their own VPN. Some process all traffic to make it more “mobile friendly”. Or they have some other kind of proxy.
Disable your mobile network and try again. I had the very similar issue where it would always fallback to the mobile network for local IPs although WiFi was connected and in the same subnet
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Are you sure you are typing the address in correctly on android/ios? 198.162.x.x isnt part of private IP space.
Some possibilities:
- WiFi has host isolation is enabled
- The network you’re connecting from is a guest wifi network
- You configured a firewall rule to isolate WiFi from LAN
- VLAN is enabled
My guess is that you are making a typo. Like others have said 192.162.x.x is a public IP. You probably want something like 192.168.x.x which probably is more like 192.168.1.1/24 with the last 1 being its own number
Are your phones on the same network? Same vlan? Firewall rules? VPN?
Does tcpdump on the server see the request?
I get a lot of downvotes. I realize I say things that can be divisive. Why are people downvoting debugging steps? What’s divisive about that…
Don’t worry about downvotes.
I’m just trying to understand the rational. To me I downvote when the comment is against the community, or unproductive.
If I’m being a net negative I should know why! Usually I have a guess as to why, but when I don’t, I reach out so I can understand better. I do want lemmy to be a better place, so feedback is useful.
What error you get exactly?
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Install some DNS test app for Android and check that it does get resolved.
My will resolve the home server address to 0.0.0.0, and I get the same network error.





