From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FrkaZ-0008Od-4v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:52:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5HNp7hu014763; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:51:07 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5HNjnUJ013269 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:45:49 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so357153ugd for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:45:49 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NwMHLHBj7dbKV7R/HNc3y3IY8u0lq0RKWlpGvSc1sAtVR0/yC6jBu7k3NBuJk8w8wDYKEkyqTaSJ/jaD9rUDx2frCv74hpYOU4JKZ3wsFJdJt5NQ0Q8benkeozur3kQIojQFSFUK85HxOYwZi1nAr9ST7RWXEZDsobL14kzft3Y= Received: by 10.67.106.3 with SMTP id i3mr412627ugm; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.55? ( [87.80.110.143]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id q40sm333109ugc.2006.06.17.16.45.48; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44949432.4000100@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:45:54 +0100 From: krgn User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ddclient question References: <44947226.8060802@gmail.com> <200606180713.22490.dystopianray@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200606180713.22490.dystopianray@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 39bd71b7-381a-42e4-a0e1-621206b2fb77 X-Archives-Hash: bf992f98fca6f832632479d2dc76fb7e 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list