So I'm a little stumped by the behaviour I am seeing, granted, I am a stranger to the "belly" of the TCP/IP beast!
Alright...so I've got a dynamic IP address account at no-ip.org, specifically "darico.no-ip.org" which normally resolves to my OS/2 machine. The router has port 80 mapping to my local static IP address for my OS2 box. The update of the darcio.no-ip.org host is done by my router as soon as the ISP assigned IP address changes, so this is automated and works reliably.
Recently I upgraded my no-ip.org to an Enhanced account and registered a domain (skokconsulting.com), which now allows me to re-direct additional traffic to one of the machine on my home network. This is all controlled through the router's port mapping functionality.
Here is where things are going "strange"...LOL: in a firefox session on my OS2 box I can not resolve neither the darcio.no-ip.org nor
www.skokconsulting.com to the real OS2 box IP address. Instead darcio.no-ip.org it gets mapped to a weird looking re-direct, that being:
http://www.skokconsulting.com:81/. Of course there is nothing out there listening on port 81, so this never connects. The
www.skokconsulting.com gets resolved to 98.143.71.19 IP address...again, no idea where this is coming from. I do not have any of these in my HOSTS file!
What I can not figure out is how this re-direct of "darcio.no-ip.org" to "
http://www.skokconsulting.com:81/" happens? There is nothing on noip.org server that does this...in fact I can confirm that the correct re-direct is done when I access both of these hosts from one of my Wintel boxes, so this leads me to believe there is something specific to either the OS/2 tcp/ip config, or to firefox itself that is doing this...just no idea where to even look
