[CoLoCo] Remote Access

[Kevin Fries]

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 11:33 -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote:

> Thanks Mike (sorry for your thumbs). I understand how NAT works. What
> I don't understand is why using dyndns coupled with ssh and port
> forwarding on the router won't won't. I do exactly this to connect my
> box at home. So I must not have a clear picture of the problem.

I don't own admin rights on the target NAT router.  I can not add DDNS
to the remote side, or forward ports.  I never tried DDNS or NOIP on my
home satellite... would be an interesting experiment if I did not need
this to be bullet proof.

I set up Hamachi at home last night, and it appears to be running.  I
then set up Hamachi on my office laptop, and it appears to be running.
However, I keep getting connection failures when I try to access home.
Hardy Heron jacked up home system on upgrade, so I had to rebuild.  I
may not have remembered to turn on things like SSH.  But I know its
turned on for the office laptop.  So I will test Hamachi tonight.

-- 
Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.