Connecting to a home server from outside the local lan

[Stephen Partington]

I would also suggest using nonstandard ports for anything like SSH. just to
keep the scanners at bay.

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:36 AM Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:

> On 2018-11-06 08:14, Steven M wrote:
> > Inspired in part by recent dropbox changes I'm thinking of taking a
> > small box I have laying around and turning it into a nextcloud server
> > (it doesn't hurt that even without making a single upgrade I'd get a
> > significant jump in drive space). Being on residential internet I
> > don't have an IP address that's guaranteed to stay the same so what
> > are the current options to be able to access it from by tablet or
> > laptop when I'm away from home?
>
> The way to do this is to sign up for a dynamic DNS service.  dyndns
> used to be free, but it isn't any more.  There must be a few more out
> there, but the IP I have now hasn't changed in a year, so I haven't kept
> up with them.
>
> Also, many/most residential ISPs block many convenient ports.  One
> solution is to have port 443 forwarded to (machine) and to use sslh on
> that machine.  sslh will act as a proxy for things like HTTPS, SSH, and
> other services, and forward these things to different ports based on
> what the packets look like.
>
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