[mythtv-users] MythTV connection from the internet

[Simon Hobson]

Stephan Seitz <stse+mythtv at fsing.rootsland.net> wrote:

> So I tried to open the ports to the backend for the frontend.

That's a really bad idea unless you can lock it down to only IPs that you can be confident you control well enough to not "abuse" that access.

I too would suggest setting up a VPN - that will avoid network address translation issues, and also secure your traffic.

As an alternative, I don't know how complete IPv6 support is, but if you wanted to avoid IPv4 NAT issues, IPv6 would allow native addressing on both ends, and subject to firewall rules, allow end to end traffic. Note that this still leaves your traffic unencrypted, but again you can use firewall rules to limit which addresses can access your system. For those, like me, who's ISP still hasn't rolled out IPv6 - tunnels are available from teh likes fo Hurricane Electric (https://tunnelbroker.net/)

BTW - what version are you running ? There are differences in how some stuff is accessed depending on version.