On Sunday, 18 June 2006 9:15, krgn wrote: > 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
$ ssh -p xxxx myaddress.dyndns.org Of course, you'll need to have configured the router to forward that particular port to "mymachine". -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- [email protected] mailing list
