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 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. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen