[wplug] Port Forwarding in Verizon Router

[george larson]

Are you forwarding to machines that are getting IP addresses via DHCP?

On my home network, all the regular members have static IP addresses and 
my port forwarding is set up based on IP address rather than host name. 
  Therein my system does not use DNS to find the machines.  That's the 
only way I've ever done forwarding.

I don't have FIOS but I do have Verizon DSL so I'm thinking it might be 
somewhat similar to your situation.

I don't know if this solution appeals to you but assigning them static 
IP addresses might work.  I imagine you could try putting the currently 
assigned IP address in your router control interface just to test it 
before bothering with configuring static.


Ryan Brown wrote:
> No idea specifically in regards to the Fios router.  I recommend putting a
> DD-WRT router in its place though to have something simple to work with.
>
> However, you still need to keep the Fios router in place (attached to the
> DD-WRT) for the TV service/on-demand.
>
> Ryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-bounces+lists=tblive.com at wplug.org
> [mailto:wplug-bounces+lists=tblive.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Greg Simkins
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 11:01 PM
> To: WPLUG General user list
> Subject: [wplug] Port Forwarding in Verizon Router
>
> I have Verizon FIOS service and I am having trouble properly configuring the
> port forwarding so I can get remote access to my iMac (screen sharing) and
> an ubuntu host which I just set up.
>
> I set up a Dell PowerEdge SC 1420 server with ubuntu 11.10 (desktop - 64
> bit) on my home network.  It gets its IP address by DHCP from Verizon Westel
> 6100 FIOS modem/router.
>
> I was able to contact the ubuntu server from outside my network on my public
> IP address using port forwarding of port 22 to 192.168.1.55, the address of
> the ubuntu machine.  Now, it seems to have stopped working. At the same
> time, my remote screen sharing on my iMac also stopped working.
>
> Looking at the port forwarding, I notice that both my iMac and ubuntu
> machine are assigned these two odd looking IP addresses:  8.15.7.117 and
> 63.251.179.13.  I found an article that said it may be a result of DNS
> lookups from Verizon's DNS servers:
> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22076303-Odd-discovery-port-443-forward
>
> I haven't been able to follow what is going on.  When I click on the host in
> the Verizon router control interface (192.168.1.1) and click on "Resolve
> Now", it searches and comes up with these weird IP addresses.  They are
> located in California and I guess are part of the Verizon service.  But they
> appear to be making it impossible for me to get remote access to the iMac
> and Ubuntu machine from outside my network.  I can't find a way to change
> the DNS servers.  One suggestion was to use non-Verizon DNS servers.
>
> I installed Aegir on the ubuntu machine and perhaps some of the
> configuration associated with Aegir has fed over to the verizon router.  I
> don't know if the tail is wagging dog or vice versa.
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
>
> Greg
>
>
>
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