On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 22:01:37 +0200, David Sommerseth <open...@sf.lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote:
>> But doing it without VPN is hard when the ISP is not providing a public IP >> address to the connected device... > >Use services like nsupdate.info ... or you could have a script running >regularly reporting it's IP address to a web server of yours; then you >would have the IP in your web server logs. > > I have a script that runs on all of my RPi units on startup and it reports the internal and external IP address to my server and it sends me an email, so I know all that. However, most ISP's nowadays provide a NAT-ed external IP address to the clients connecting to their service, and those are inaccessible from an outside source to initiate a conversation. I guess it enhances the security of run-of-the-mill customers, but it blocks having a server on the connection. At my summer home I had mobile internet via a provider which did not do this so I could set up a dynamic dns to reach it. But when I switched to fiber out there the IP was NAT-ed and the site was unreachable. Had to talk to the fiber service provider and pay an extra charge to get a public (non-NATed) IP. -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
