I have a home camera system with a DVR. I set up the port forwarding so I can connect and view my cameras remotely. Outside my network everything works fine, but if I try to view the cameras at home (on same network of DVR) it will not connect. Is there something I am missing on the router?
I’m aware setting up the local IP on my phone may work, but I rather not do this.
Best Answer
The reason you can't connect is because your phone is trying to connect to your router's public IP address, but since the request isn't coming from the Internet, your router is refusing the connection.
You have three options for solving this:
camera.example.com
. Point the publicly-resolvable record to your router's WAN IP address. Point the identical record that's resolvable on your private LAN to your camera system. Configure your phone to connect to this DNS name. Note that this requires access to DNS hosting on the public Internet as well as the ability to configure DNS records on your local network. Therefore it's not the most simple solution.