[aklug] Re: Dynamic DNS -- not exactly what I was thinking

It would help if we knew exactly what you were trying to accomplish.
Richard

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> wrote:

> Christopher Howard wrote, on 9/10/2008 2:00 AM:
> > I went ahead and signed up for dynamic dns at dyndns.org, just to see if
> > I could even get it configured. I did, sort of.
> >
> > However, the only thing I am able to get my dynamic dns hostname to map
> > to is my DSL router! I hope I'm missing something here, because this is
> > not particularly useful. (Aside from the fact that I can now configure
> > my DSL router from anywhere in the world.)
> >
> > The DSL router has port forwarding capabilities, but other than that, I
> > didn't see anything in the router's configuration options that would
> > help me accomplish what I'm really wanting: being able to use a dynamic
> > dns hostname to connect to a particular pc inside my network (from
> > outside the network).
>
> At the point that you reach the last public IP, you can no longer
> reach one of those internal IPs from the public Internet without port
> forwarding, tunneling or a VPN.
>
> Actually, a VPN might be best for what it sounds like you're after --
> full access, all ports, to specific internal hosts?
>
> Royce
>
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Received on Thu Sep 11 05:33:16 2008