[Server-devel] Trying to access a school server from the outside world

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Could I use your passthrough server to access Sora server?
What we should do setup it?

Gonzalo

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 4:16 PM, George Hunt <georgejhunt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Typically a server is behind some sort of NAT device, and some sort of
> firewall, and most likely has a variable ip address assigned by the ISP's
> dhcpd.  The trick is to have the server initiate an outgoing conversation
> to a device on the internet that is always on.  I purchased a micro
> instance on amazon cloud for the purpose.
>
> The amazon instance generates keys for clients which permits passthrough
> conversations between any clients. There's two levels of authentication --
> 1. need a vpn key to connect to the amazon instance, and 2. need
> authentication at the ssh port of the target (preferably a public key in
> .ssh/authorized_keys on the target -making dictionary attacks less likely).
>
> But I'm becoming a fan of teamviewer. You need to install Xorg, and I
> usually install XFCE because it's pretty light weight. Up until now, I've
> resisted a GUI for servers.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:
>
>> I should also have mentioned that we have started using TeamViewer on
>> some of the servers which allows a session on the server without using the
>> vpn hub.
>>
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Gonzalo Odiard

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