Hello,

 

I've suscribed for a dyndns account to remote access my unraid server.

I've installed dyndns package through UNmenu with account information.

 

I can ping my dyndns and find my IP adress.

 

But I can't access to unraid with :

 

http://****.dyndns.org:8080

 

Could you help me please to solve the problem?

 

Thanks

 

Did you forward the 8080 port on your router?

if you are asking this question it indicates you are about to open up your entire lan to every script kiddie in the world.. it is not a question of if youll be attacked, but when. Typically it is only a matter of a few hours. Often it is only minutes.

 

You have been warned.

 

 

 

Joe, you think he is doing that without NAT and firewall? No router? Uh, that definitely would be kind of harakiri... 

Even with with a NAT it is not advised to do what he is attempting to do.

 

I have VPN set up in my system so that I can get access when I need to.

Well, if you do forward only single ports, it is quite save. What could any script kiddie do with an open port 8080 that ends up in a unRaid box, which is secured by a good password?

 

 

Well, if you do forward only single ports, it is quite save. What could any script kiddie do with an open port 8080 that ends up in a unRaid box, which is secured by a good password?

 

 

 

Ha, no...

 

I don't bother to dabble in the script kiddy kind of stuff, but if I so chose I could probably do quite a bit of stuff to my server from the outside world should I have opened port 8080 (for I am assuming unMenu).

I agree. No way would I open up unMENU to the outside world.

 

They would have access to everything in minutes. They would take over your LAN with ease. (No, I will not go into detail, but it is way too easy.)

 

Think of it this way. You built your machine, you put all your valueable information on your machine. You spent years taking photos, ripping all of your music and countless hours ripping all of your movies.

 

Now somebody walks onto your machine and types something like rm -fr /mnt/user/*

 

I've not tried it nor would I recommend it, but I'm not going to be the first or last guy to say its simply not worth the convience of having access to all of your stuff remotely.

 

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Thanks for the advice.

 

So, i have an internet box (modem, router and firewall).

I just wanted to NAT my ports on my router but i'm not going to if you think it's not safe.

 

I think i'm going to buy a new router that can be used as a VPN server : WRT610n

 

What do you think ?

 

Thanks !

VPN is a completely different story.

I'm going to buy a second hand WRT610n v2 tomorrow.

Can you confirm it's the good product to buy if I want to get a secure connexion to my unraid box ?

 

Thanks

I have a WRT320n that has DDWRT on it for VPN access and it is working great.  So long as you get one that supports DDWRT you should be fine.

May be a silly question, but VPN on DDWRT is secured by a non capitalized password/username combination, that uses no special chars. I suppose any hacker can crack into that VPN in a few hours.

 

So what is the difference between an unsecure password on a VPN ( that, BTW, let one access a whole lot more on your LAN than one open forwarded port) and a secure password on a unread machine? I think I missed something...

May be a silly question, but VPN on DDWRT is secured by a non capitalized password/username combination, that uses no special chars. I suppose any hacker can crack into that VPN in a few hours.

 

So what is the difference between an unsecure password on a VPN ( that, BTW, let one access a whole lot more on your LAN than one open forwarded port) and a secure password on a unread machine? I think I missed something...

 

I use openVPN with PKI on a DDWRT router for remote access.  No connection allowed from any device that doesn't have a private key generated explicitly for it.  Actually no username/password used at all from the client side