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Setting up own server Zurotzis 04-14-2007
Posted by Zurotzis on April 14, 2007, 9:39 am
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I was thinking of putting up an server on one of my computers but my
friend says that u have to portforward some ports in the router for
other people to access your server pupblic and not in a private
network. I just woundering if any of u guys could help how to do it
goes. I got two routers between my server computer and the modem, what
is the best way to portfprward the routers and what ports.


Posted by Todd H. on April 14, 2007, 10:14 am
no@spam.invalid (Zurotzis) writes:

> I was thinking of putting up an server on one of my computers but my
> friend says that u have to portforward some ports in the router for
> other people to access your server pupblic and not in a private
> network. I just woundering if any of u guys could help how to do it
> goes. I got two routers between my server computer and the modem, what
> is the best way to portfprward the routers and what ports.

It's possible and even pretty straightforward. Your friends are
correct.

You need to do your homework though and decide exactly what services
you wish to be accessible from the internet and on what ports
(e.g. web server tcp/80 , ssh server tcp/22, remote desktop protocol
rdp tcp/3389). You'll also want to think long and hard to see if you
are willing to keep up with teh patching requirements of keeping a
server on the internet so that your internal network isn't compromised
quickly.

For example, if the box you want to run the server is 192.168.1.50 on
your LAN and you want to use it as a webserver, you install a
webserver on it that listens on tcp/80 then you'd need to tell your
router that you want to forward inbound tcp port 80 traffic to
192.168.1.50. Without such port forwarding entries, your router
simply rejects incoming connection requests.

Using a static IP on your internal LAN for the server you wish to use
is recommended. DHCP is problematic because you aren't guaranteed
that server will have the same address after reboots and you wouldn't
want traffic getting forwarded to the wrong machine.

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://toddh.net/



Posted by $Bill on April 14, 2007, 9:10 pm
Todd H. wrote:
> no@spam.invalid (Zurotzis) writes:
>
>
>>I was thinking of putting up an server on one of my computers but my
>>friend says that u have to portforward some ports in the router for
>>other people to access your server pupblic and not in a private
>>network. I just woundering if any of u guys could help how to do it
>>goes. I got two routers between my server computer and the modem, what
>>is the best way to portfprward the routers and what ports.
>
>
> It's possible and even pretty straightforward. Your friends are
> correct.

Then there's always the problem that many/most ISPs don't allow you to
run a home server unless maybe you set up a business line that allows
for a server.

Posted by Todd H. on April 14, 2007, 10:19 pm

> Todd H. wrote:
> > no@spam.invalid (Zurotzis) writes:
> >
> >>I was thinking of putting up an server on one of my computers but my
> >>friend says that u have to portforward some ports in the router for
> >>other people to access your server pupblic and not in a private
> >>network. I just woundering if any of u guys could help how to do it
> >>goes. I got two routers between my server computer and the modem, what
> >>is the best way to portfprward the routers and what ports.
> > It's possible and even pretty straightforward. Your friends are
> > correct.
>
> Then there's always the problem that many/most ISPs don't allow you to
> run a home server unless maybe you set up a business line that allows
> for a server.

They usually don't technically disallow you from doing so, but you
bring up a good point -- you will want to consult the AUP (acceptable
use policy) of your ISP and verify that you aren't lining yourself up
for a hand slap.

Typically though, if your use is modest even home users seem to get
away with it without much of a problem. The average (l)users
compromised malware infested PC that's spewing spam onto the net or
serving up pron or warez will chew up a lot more upstream bandwidth
and causing more business impact to the ISP than some guy's
low-traffic intentionally configured home web server, or remote
access

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Posted by DLR on April 15, 2007, 9:42 pm
Todd H. wrote:
> Typically though, if your use is modest even home users seem to get
> away with it without much of a problem. The average (l)users
> compromised malware infested PC that's spewing spam onto the net or
> serving up pron or warez will chew up a lot more upstream bandwidth
> and causing more business impact to the ISP than some guy's
> low-traffic intentionally configured home web server, or remote
> access

The problem is more and more folks like me (I run some business email
servers on business circuits with static IPs) will refuse to accept
email from him if it appears to come from a residential block of IP
addresses.

Now if he's serving up photos of Grandma's birthday party, well, that's
between him and his ISP as far as I'm concerned.

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