I suppose you are missing something. This remote site is running off of a
cellular hot-spot. As such, it won't work with a DDNS provider because it
has no static inbound address. (We tried that... Every time it
re-registered to dyndns, it was a different address...
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Robert Mckennon <robmcken...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Paul, perhaps I'm missing something, but wouldn't Dynamic DNS solve the
> problem? It automatically updates DNS when ever your public IP address
> changes, and there are numerous free DDNS providers out there.
>
> Rob
>
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Paul Spicer <ephram.pont...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Alright, I'm not entirely sure what the best way to word this is, but I'm
>> going to take a stab at it...
>>
>> What I'm trying to find out is how to set up a Linux server to act as a
>> proxy / redirect machine for a specific server.
>>
>> Here's the scenario: We have a remote site (192.168.100.0) connected to
>> our
>> local network (192.168.1.0) through OpenVPN. At that site, we have a
>> server
>> (192.168.100.10). Locally, we can connect and communicate with this server
>> with no problems. Thing is, that remote site doesn't have a static public
>> IP address. Our thoughts: use one of the static IPs available to us
>> locally
>> and forward traffic to the remote server, thus allowing outside access.
>> Problem is, while OpenVPN will forward the internet traffic to that server
>> just fine, that remote server is trying to send it's reply to the public
>> address that made the request (and not through the VPN tunnel).
>>
>> My thought was to set up a server on our local network that would do
>> nothing but act as a proxy for the remote server. The public address will
>> forward to this proxy and all traffic will route to the remote server,
>> appearing to originate from the local network. The remote server will
>> reply
>> as it should and the proxy will feed the information back to the
>> requesting
>> public address.
>>
>> A crude diagram of what I'm trying to accomplish:
>> (internet)---[Local network]---[proxy/redirect]---{VPN}---[remote server]
>>
>> I can not find any how-tos or tutorials explaining how to do what I want.
>> I
>> found numerous proxy tutorials as well as tutorials on how to redirect
>> traffic, but nothing combining the two into one convenient server.
>>
>> So, does anyone have any idea what I'm trying to accomplish and have any
>> suggestions?
>>
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