Re: [gentoo-user] ddclient question

[krgn]

Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 June 2006 6:50, krgn wrote:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> I have a few questions on how to basically access a specific machine in
>> a network from the web. I have registered with dyndns.org and got
>> ddclient running to provide the ip address, but the only thing I can now
>> connect to is my network router ;) which is pretty useless. How would it
>> be possible o change the setup for a machine within the smaller
>> home-network? Does that have to do with the setup on dyndns or in the
>> config file of ddclient?
>> I can paste its content if needed, any advice and tips would be greatly
>> appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Karsten
>>
>
> This doesn't have anything to do with ddclient or dyndns, as long as the dns
> entry is pointing to the right ip then it's doing all it should.
>
> Your router should provide the ability to configure port forwarding to
> machines in your LAN. Simply configure it to forward traffic on whatever
> ports you want to use to the clients which are serving those ports. The
> router may also provide a DMZ function which will forward all incoming
> traffic to a specific machine on your LAN, although this may possible make
> the machine vulnerable to security exploits.
>
> You'll have to read the documentation that came with the router or search
> google in order to configure it appropriately as the configuration details
> differ between manufacturers and models.
>
>
hm ok, but lets say for instance my machines hostname is "mymachine", 
its port is 'xxxx' and the address which points to the router is 
"myaddress.dyndns.org": what would be for example the ssh command to 
connect to that particular machine? I know its a bit of a stupid 
question, but I can't picture what this would look like/how it would 
work. I must saz understanding these network issues really is a bit 
tricky for me at the moment,

thanks for your help anyway,



Karsten
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