[PLUG] setting up a server: comcast, squid, port 80/8080

["Christopher M. Jones" <cjones@partialflow.com>]

Over the past week I've been experimenting with Linux and setting up a
home network. I started out by setting up a firewall, using ip
forwarding to do NAT. Then I put up squid and dansguardian to do content
filtering. Then I started playing with DNS services on the same machine.
Now I've discovered dyndns and I'd like to have a web server going. 

Everything works fine until I try to get to my site from a machine
outside of the lan. I guess the short question is: does Comcast block
port 80? Is that why my connection is refused outside the lan? Can I use
port 8080 to get around this? How do I set things up on my end so that
apache listens on 8080? Part of my confusion is that I'm not sure how
apache, squid, and dansguardian work together. So should I really be
worrying about what apache listens to or should I be worried about my
forwarding rules? Or should I be worried about one of the other
services?

I'm hopelessly confused here. Someone straighten me out.


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