{"id":2671,"date":"2006-07-18T08:18:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T12:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/the-outside-world\/"},"modified":"2006-07-18T08:18:22","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T12:18:22","slug":"the-outside-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/the-outside-world\/","title":{"rendered":"the outside world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got something useful done with the Thinkpad with the broken backlight. Thanks to lots of help from <a href=\"http:\/\/redchocolate.ca\/\">Paul<\/a>, and a critical bit of advice from <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyplanet.ca\/\">Stephen<\/a>, it&#8217;s now living on my network and visible to the outside world.<br \/>\nWhat had me initially confused was that both my modem (a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtouch.com\/prod546.htm\">SpeedTouch 546<\/a>) and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netgear.com\/products\/details\/WGR614.php\">Netgear<\/a> router have NAT firewalls. I had to declare the router as a DMZ on my modem, and the Thinkpad a DMZ on my router. Also, the router&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyndns.com\/\">DynDNS<\/a> support was only reporting its IP address as seen behind the modem, so I had to turn that off and use dynDNS from the modem.<\/p>\n<p>Security hole? Perhaps; but it&#8217;s not as if <a href=\"http:\/\/openbsd.org\/\">OpenBSD<\/a> is the least secure or most widely-used OS. I&#8217;ve really only got sshd and thttpd running, so there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.dyndns.org\/\">not much to chew on<\/a> &#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.dyndns.org\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got something useful done with the Thinkpad with the broken backlight. Thanks to lots of help from Paul, and a critical bit of advice from Stephen, it&#8217;s now living on my network and visible to the outside world. What had me initially confused was that both my modem (a SpeedTouch 546) and my Netgear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1302,52,1272,1244,1380,355,921,1113,650,148,893,304,593,759,365,974,656,923],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-ack","tag-broken","tag-cola","tag-dns","tag-fire","tag-gear","tag-hp","tag-ice","tag-ink","tag-light","tag-network","tag-openbsd","tag-pen","tag-php","tag-red","tag-ssh","tag-thinkpad","tag-uri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-H5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}