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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arthur Green</b> <<a href="mailto:arthur@phraction.org">arthur@phraction.org</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><a href="mailto:thomas.w.baker@comcast.net">thomas.w.baker@comcast.net</a> wrote:<br>> I would like to configure MythWeb so that I can schedule recoredings
<br>> etc. from a remote location, as in not on my LAN. Since I travel<br>> most of the week for work, I would like to be able to access mythweb<br>> while away from home. I have already gotten to the point where I can
<br>> access MythWeb in a web browser from within my LAN, but I'm not sure<br>> where to go from here. Anyone out there done this before and have<br>> any tips? Questions on my mind include:<br><br>I would think twice before exposing systems to the outside Internet like
<br>that. I'd recommend instead using a VPN to remotely access your home<br>LAN. I've been running OpenVPN for a while now and am happy with it.<br>It's cross-platform, free and highly configurable.<br><br>> 1) Will I need a static IP address from my ISP, or can my Linksys
<br>> router take care of this?<br><br>You will need either a static IP address or dynamic DNS. I'm a<br>reasonably satisfied ZoneEdit user, largely for historical reasons (too<br>much effort to switch to another dynDNS provider). The Linksys may have
<br>dynDNS support built in, which might steer you towards a specific dynDNS<br>provider.<br><br>- AG<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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<div>dyndns has a very simple script that you can run on your backend to update DNS with your public IP. My provider (Verizon) like a lot of others block port 80, so I run unencrypted on port 8080. I also run an https server on 443 which is unblocked.
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<div>If your worried about someone compromising your system, you can always open up ssh and then port-forward http through that tunnel. SSH should be pretty safe to open up to the outside world. I do see constant attempts to access my server from China, but as long as you have a reasonably secure password, you should be okay.
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<div>Matt</div>
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