As I've learned there is a good brain trust on this list, I have a somewhat interesting problem to solve.
A few weeks ago due to circumstances beyond my control, I now have Internet access where I am behind Carrier Grade NAT. In other words, my router no longer has a publicly accessible IP address. This means I can no longer use port forwarding on my router to SSH into my main desktop where I collect and read my email. As I have researched this, it appears my options are to have access to a shell account that I can set up a remote SSH tunnel to or a VPN. The trick is finding a shell provider I trust enough to host a private SSH key as I would presumably initiate the tunnel from the home desktop and then login to the shell account from the laptop and connect to the tunnel from there. If I misunderstand, please correct me. I have a vague idea about VPNs as I have never set one up. Likewise, I presume that I would need a third party host as above and that entails all of the trust issues. I asked the owner of the Web host I am renting but he wasn't too keen on allowing me to use his server for an SSH tunnel so that option, which I thought may be the most trust worthy, seems out of the question. TIA, - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
