Found they had a change of policy and you can buy a static public IP, without having a business package. Might be the simple solution I am looking for. On 02/14/2011 10:12 AM, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Friday, February 11, 2011 08:13:58 pm T L wrote: >> I think that there is a confusion between a public address and a static >> one. Dynamic DNS to the rescue? >> >> Thomas > Nope, that doesn't seem to be the confusion here. His ISP has him behind NAT, > so he doesn't have a public IP that can be connected to. > > Take my situation: > > firewall external IP address is assigned by my DSL router via DHCP as > 192.168.254.2 > > The DSL router gets a "public" IP of 192.168.254.254 from the DSLAM. > > Something upstream does NAT. The IP that I see on the other end of my link is > 74.38.80.1. Hitting a website like whatismyip.com gives me a random IP in > 74.38.80.0/24, but I can't connect back to that IP from a remote host, stuff > just dies at whatever is doing NAT. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110214/0255147e/attachment.html>