Re: [gentoo-user] ddclient question

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com>]

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.

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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
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