[olug] Connecting to a home network as a Cox customer.

Jeff Hinrichs dundeemt at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 11:20:00 CST 2022


It may be beyond the scope of what you are attempting, but I would
recommend a VPN as a requirement.
In today's hostile world, I'd never recommend just punching a hole in a
firewall.  However my paranoia of "secure by default" may not be in
alignment with your goal for this presentation.

On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 9:44 AM Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm working on a OLUG presentation and I'd like to be able to connect to my
> home network to demo things.    AFAIK,  I need
>
>    1. My dynamic DNS address
>    2. An entry in my firewall enabling traffic to a specific port/protocol
>    above port 1024
>    3. Something in network that is listening.
>
> Bonus: set up a dynamic dns entry using a service like freedns.afraid.org
> to track changes to my Cox IP.
>
> Am I missing anything?
>
> Dave
>
>
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Jeff Hinrichs
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