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On Sunday, 18 June 2006 9:15, krgn wrote: |
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> Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: |
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> > On Sunday, 18 June 2006 6:50, krgn wrote: |
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> >> hello, |
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> >> |
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> >> I have a few questions on how to basically access a specific machine in |
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> >> a network from the web. I have registered with dyndns.org and got |
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> >> ddclient running to provide the ip address, but the only thing I can now |
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> >> connect to is my network router ;) which is pretty useless. How would it |
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> >> be possible o change the setup for a machine within the smaller |
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> >> home-network? Does that have to do with the setup on dyndns or in the |
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> >> config file of ddclient? |
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> >> I can paste its content if needed, any advice and tips would be greatly |
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> >> appreciated! |
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> >> |
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> >> Thanks, |
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> >> |
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> >> Karsten |
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> > |
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> > This doesn't have anything to do with ddclient or dyndns, as long as the |
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> > dns entry is pointing to the right ip then it's doing all it should. |
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> > |
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> > Your router should provide the ability to configure port forwarding to |
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> > machines in your LAN. Simply configure it to forward traffic on whatever |
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> > ports you want to use to the clients which are serving those ports. The |
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> > router may also provide a DMZ function which will forward all incoming |
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> > traffic to a specific machine on your LAN, although this may possible |
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> > make the machine vulnerable to security exploits. |
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> > |
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> > You'll have to read the documentation that came with the router or search |
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> > google in order to configure it appropriately as the configuration |
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> > details differ between manufacturers and models. |
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> hm ok, but lets say for instance my machines hostname is "mymachine", |
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> its port is 'xxxx' and the address which points to the router is |
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> "myaddress.dyndns.org": what would be for example the ssh command to |
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> connect to that particular machine? I know its a bit of a stupid |
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> question, but I can't picture what this would look like/how it would |
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> work. I must saz understanding these network issues really is a bit |
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> tricky for me at the moment, |
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> thanks for your help anyway, |
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> |
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> Karsten |
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$ ssh -p xxxx myaddress.dyndns.org |
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Of course, you'll need to have configured the router to forward that |
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particular port to "mymachine". |
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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck |
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