On Friday 25 January 2002 23:39 pm, Tom Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > Quick questions here. I have an ADSL connection to the Internet. I have > been in the process of slowly setting up a home network. My question is, > if I want to host a FTP or web server and I have a private IP address on my > DSL connection, how can I get around this? > > My idea is, after having done a couple traceroutes, is to NAT my private > address to the first hop returned on the traceroute. Then order up some > dyndns.org. Any opinions on this (possibly lame-brained) idea? > > TIA
I assume by 'private ip' you really mean a static IP. (it's always the same) Sounds like you want the same situation that I have here (static IP, but I use a dial-up line) I host a web server and wouldn't *dare* put up an ftp server. You'll be over-run with door knockers... In any event all I think you need is masquerading of your internal network. All your machines would have local addresses of 192.168.0.xx or such and your ADSL connected machine becomes the gateway to the Inet. Now I have my web server on my inet connected machine. Placing it on some other machine in your LAN that isn't directly connected can take some work as you will have to forward incoming connections to that machine. But dyndns is the way to go if you can't get your ISP to host your domain. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 01/25/02 23:51 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results." - Calvin Coolidge _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
