I bent WebServer and want to make the nice result visible beyond my home network. The 2Wire router seems to have a list of which computers are present on the home network and the static addressed arduino isn't listed (but it serves pages locally). I try to setup port forwarding by not choosing one of the listed computers but rather typing in the arduino IP adr. Then I define a phony "application" (TCP, port 80) which I move into the "Hosted Apps" column of the 2Wire screens. Settings: Firewall summary shows my phony application name associated with the 1st computer in the list of visible computers mentioned earlier. It seems 2Wire software wasn't written to handle a nameless machine at an IP adr. Just in case the UI is just in error, I tried accessing the port using the public address of the router and Chrome says "Oops!".
So, one option might be to (somehow) have arduino issue an HTTP field which defines the computer name (domain name?) to the router.
help? ideas? search strings? thanks.