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Re: Logging into mike




Chris,

You would think this, but you would be wrong. Earthlink seems to
run their DSL over a non-routable address which the router sees.
(One of those 172.xxx.xxx.xxx addresses.) So the router doesn't know
the true external IP.

Cheers,
Doug

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 18:17, Chris Albertson wrote:
> If the web page at dyndns.org says you are crrently 66.30.220.66
> then barring a blunder on thier part, you _are_ 66.30.220.66 and
> you don't need to look at your router.  But I'm pretty certain
> Lynksys routers have a status page that shows the curent IP address.
> 
> I think dyndns.org has a button you can click that will just do the
> update. 
> 
> 
> --- droege@snapmail.us wrote:
> 
> > With a little help I should be able to manage this.  When I log into
> > dyndns it presently says tass-survey.dyndns.org is at 66.30.220.66
> > 
> > Looking in my router, I can't find this number anywhere. Can someone
> > list
> > the steps I need to take to update the IP address when Doug or some
> > other
> > helper is not around?
> > 
> > Tom Droege
> > 
> > >
> > > Tom's IP had changed. We had a working script on mike for
> > auto-updating
> > > the IP, but it was lost in the reformatting. I guess I did not
> > > successfully re-create it! In any case, I manually updated the
> > > dyndns.org record so it should work again.
> > >
> > > I'll look into the script again when I get a chance.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Doug
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 17:20, Chris Albertson wrote:
> > >> Tom,
> > >>
> > >> First make sure that "tass-survey.dyndns.org" points to you.  Your
> > >> system should be automatically updating the records at dyndns.org
> > >> whenever you are handed a new IP address.  As of Mon Dec 20
> > 14:16:04
> > >> PST 2004 tass-survey.dyndns.org points to 66.32.215.229.
> > >> Look on your router's configuration page and see if this is
> > correct..
> > >>
> > >> Next check that you have port forwarding setup correctly to that
> > SSH's
> > >> port 20 is sent to the right computer
> > >>
> > >> Then make sure that the computer is actually acceptig SSH logins
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --- droege@snapmail.us wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Mike has been up continuously for about the last week.  A week
> > or so
> > >> > ago
> > >> > it was reloaded to rescue two new hard drives that we not
> > visible
> > >> > with the
> > >> > previous version of Mandrake linux.
> > >> >
> > >> > I would appreciate it if someone would try to log into mike and
> > tell
> > >> > me
> > >> > what needs to be done at this end.
> > >> >
> > >> > I don't know how to check it from this end since efforst to log
> > in
> > >> > are
> > >> > intercepted locally.  I think I need a little educational help.
> > >> >
> > >> > Tom Droege
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
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