Getting my client server application to work over the internet?

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Hello, I have a client and server chat program that works fine on my local network, but I'm wanting to run the server.exe on a computer outside my network (a friends computer) and use the client to connect to it. The problem is I don't know how to connect to it?. I've tried having the server bind to the ISP assigned IP address but the bind() call fails and it never listen()s or accept()s any connections when I specify my client connect to that IP address. I've also tried INADDR_ANY in my server but still no luck.

Basically how do I connect to computer running my server outside my network?. What do I have to do to the server and client?.

my code is as follows.

server (Right now it's just set to my local address

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include <winsock2.h>
#include <ws2tcpip.h>
using namespace std;

#define PORT 3490
#define IP "192.168.1.65"
#define BACKLOG 10

const int winsockversion = 2;

int main(void){
	WSADATA wsadata;
	if ( (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(winsockversion,0),&wsadata)) == 0){
		cout<<"-WSAStartup Initialized." << endl;
		
		struct sockaddr_in serv;
		memset(&serv,0,sizeof serv);
		serv.sin_family = AF_INET;
		serv.sin_port = htons(PORT);
		serv.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(IP);//INADDR_ANY;//inet_addr(IP);
		//---------------------------------------
		struct addrinfo serv_addrinfo;
		serv_addrinfo.ai_family = AF_INET;
		serv_addrinfo.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
		serv_addrinfo.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP;
		serv_addrinfo.ai_addrlen = sizeof(serv);
		serv_addrinfo.ai_addr = (sockaddr*)&serv;
		
		
		//---------------------------------------
		SOCKET serv_con;
		serv_con = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,IPPROTO_TCP);
		if (serv_con != INVALID_SOCKET){
			cout<<"-Server Socket created." << endl;
		}
		
		if (bind(serv_con,serv_addrinfo.ai_addr,serv_addrinfo.ai_addrlen) != -1){
			cout<<"-Binding Successful." << endl;
		}
		
		if( listen(serv_con,BACKLOG) != -1){
			cout<<"-Listening for incoming connections." << endl;
		}
		//--------------------------------------------------------------------
		SOCKET recv_socket;
		struct sockaddr_in client_info;
		int client_info_size = sizeof(client_info);
		
		char *con_addr = inet_ntoa(client_info.sin_addr);
		
		
		
		
		recv_socket = accept(serv_con,(sockaddr*)&client_info,&client_info_size);
		
		if( recv_socket != INVALID_SOCKET ){
			cout<<"-Connection Established!. " << endl;
			cout<<"-Connected to: [" << con_addr << "] " << endl;
		//----------------------------------------------------------------------
			char buffer[80];
			int bytes_in;
			while(true){
			
				bytes_in = recv(recv_socket,buffer,sizeof(buffer),0);
				if ( bytes_in > 0 ){
					cout<<"[" << con_addr << "]" << buffer << endl;
				}
				
				if (bytes_in == 0 ){
					cout<<"[" << con_addr << "] has disconnected." << endl;
					break;
				}
				if (bytes_in == -1 ){
					cout<<"-Possible Abrupt disconnecton from [" << con_addr << "]" << endl;
					break;
				}
			}
			
			closesocket(recv_socket);
			closesocket(serv_con);
		
		}
		
	}else{
		cout<<"-WSAStartup Initialization failed." << endl;
	}
	
	if( WSACleanup()!= -1){
		cout<<"-WSACleanp Successful." << endl;
	}
	
	WSAGetLastError();
	
	
	return 0;
}

client

/*client*/

#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x501
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include <winsock2.h>
#include <ws2tcpip.h>
using namespace std;

#define PORT "3490"
#define SERVER "192.168.1.65"
const int winsockVersion = 2;


int main(void){

	WSADATA wsadata;
	if ( (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,0),&wsadata)) == 0){
		cout<<"-WSAStartup Initialized." << endl;

		struct addrinfo hints, *res;
		int sockfd;
		
		memset(&hints,0,sizeof hints);
		hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
		hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
		
		if (getaddrinfo(SERVER,PORT,&hints,&res) != 0){
			cout<<"-getaddrinfo unsuccessful." << endl;
		}

		if ( (sockfd = socket(res->ai_family,res->ai_socktype,res->ai_protocol)) == -1 ){
			cout<<"-Unable to create socket." << endl;
		}
		
		if ( (connect(sockfd,res->ai_addr,res->ai_addrlen)) != -1 ){
			cout<<"-Connection Established." << endl;
		}
		
		cout<<"-Client connecting to: " << res->ai_addr << endl;
		
		while(true){
			string text_buff;
			cout<<"Enter text: ";
			getline(cin,text_buff);
			if( (send(sockfd,text_buff.c_str(),text_buff.length()+1,0)) != -1 ){
				cout<<"-text_buff sent!." << endl;
			}
			
		}
		
	}else{
		cout<<"-WSAStartup Initialization failed." << endl;
		if(WSACleanup()!=0){
			cout<<"-WSACleanup Successful." << endl;
		}else{
			cout<<"-WSACleanup Failed." << endl;
		}
	}

	return 0;
}

-thanks