I am able to remotely connect on my iphone to the Indigo server however I must do it with two different connection entries. The entry which is a domain name that goes to my home IP connects on my phone when going through the cellular service however it will not connect via the domain name when connected to my wifi network. I must use another entry to connect via wifi which is the internal hostname of the server. Anyone know why it wouldn't be able to connect via the domain name when on my local network? Obviously it would be better to not need to switch servers.

Hmmm... There are lots of possible reasons for this. To name a few...

1. DNS issues inside your local network.
2. Differences in how your router routes LAN traffic to your server compared to WAN traffic.
3. Network interface or firewall configuration on your server.

Any one (or combination) of those could be the source of the problem. If it were me, I'd start with DNS issues. Use the command line on a wireless-connected computer to do some nslookups for your server's externally viewable domain and see what IP address it returns, then try to connect to that IP address directly rather than the domain name just to make sure your router is sending those packets to your server (and returning the server's packets to you).

I am thinking it must be how my router routes the LAN traffic vs WAN. I can't connect directly to my public IP either and nslookup checks out fine. I disabled all firewalls other than the firewall on my router which has the Indigo ports opened.

CaliChris wrote:I can't connect directly to my public IP either and nslookup checks out fine. I disabled all firewalls other than the firewall on my router which has the Indigo ports opened.

If you're not able to connect to your public IP, that's a fairly good indication that it's a router configuration issue. Try putting your Mac with Indigo on it in the router's "DMZ" (sometimes called the "default host"). If your router actually has a firewall (as opposed to the firewall-like effect of all NAT setups), consider disabling the firewall feature in the router while testing.

Well I tried adding the server to the DMZ and disabled every firewall option in my router, still no luck.

It shows this is my routing table, is there a default route I could add if its not allowing the traffic that way?

Destination LAN IP Subnet Mask Gateway Interface
10.1.1.0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 LAN & Wireless
72.211.212.0 255.255.252.0 0.0.0.0 Internet (WAN)
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 72.211.212.1 Internet (WAN)

CaliChris wrote:I am able to remotely connect on my iphone to the Indigo server however I must do it with two different connection entries. The entry which is a domain name that goes to my home IP connects on my phone when going through the cellular service however it will not connect via the domain name when connected to my wifi network. I must use another entry to connect via wifi which is the internal hostname of the server. Anyone know why it wouldn't be able to connect via the domain name when on my local network? Obviously it would be better to not need to switch servers.

Sounds like a loopback issue. Each router is different. Here is a discussion on DD-WRT Loopback. http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=89353

CaliChris wrote:Well I tried adding the server to the DMZ and disabled every firewall option in my router, still no luck.

It shows this is my routing table, is there a default route I could add if its not allowing the traffic that way?

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Destination LAN IP       Subnet Mask       Gateway           Interface
10.1.1.0                 255.255.255.0     0.0.0.0           LAN & Wireless
72.211.212.0             255.255.252.0     0.0.0.0           Internet (WAN)
0.0.0.0                  0.0.0.0           72.211.212.1      Internet (WAN)

I'm not an expert on router configuration or routing tables, but that doesn't look right. 0.0.0.0 is not a valid IP address. But even if it were, I'm not sure that's what the routing table should look like. lalisingh's observation seems the most likely cause. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to fix that kind of issue.

Well that is just the defaults from Linksys. I didn't enter those, that is what came on the router.

CaliChris wrote:Well that is just the defaults from Linksys. I didn't enter those, that is what came on the router.

Ah, alright. Well, I'm rather at a loss as to the exact cause, but it certainly appears to be related to the router or modem configuration rather than any kind of Indigo or Mac configuration. I don't know enough about network hardware to be able help in that area. Perhaps others here might be able to.