Connecting to a home server from outside the local lan

[Matt Graham]

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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