Connection Refused

[John Aldrich]

vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com wrote on Monday, April 24, 2006 2:34 PM:

> I've gone from timing out trying to dial into my home
> system, 
> to "Error
> 10061: Connection Refused." That's at least some headway.
> 
> I haven't the foggiest why it would refuse the connection
> (I'm using the Personal Edition, latest version) -
> Originally, it was 
> working, then just
> quit.  After three weeks of timing out, now it refused the
> connection -
> NOTHING has changed. I'm using DynDNS and the updater has
> no 
> problem finding
> the public and local address. Even if I try making the
> connection from within the network now, I get the refused
> error. 
> 
> I've checked the permissions, shares, etc. What am I
> missing??? 
> 
Jim:
Can you double-check your External IP to make sure it matches the dynamic
name? Also, is there any possibility your ISP is prohibiting the connection?
Some ISPs will block "common" ports for known services.