Access from outside

[John Aldrich]

On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
> John Aldrich wrote:
> > Ok. I managed to *briefly* connect with my machine from outside. I
> > still think there's something "hinky" about my config since I
> > installed F10. It *was* working on FC6, and I wiped and reinstalled
> > F10. Now, I can SSH in from my wife's XP box on the LAN, but I can't
> > SSH in from outside, either on port 22 or the non-standard port I
> > configured to make things more difficult for hackers (port number is
> > in excess of 2000).
> >
> > I can SSH in from inside the LAN on either the standard port or the
> > non-standard port, but I cannot access my machine from outside.
> >
> > I've tried several things, but none of them seem to work. Any
> > suggestions where to look?
>
> Got a router in the mix there?  If you changed the port that ssh answers
> on you'll need to set the router to port forward incoming port 22
> connections to your non-standard port.
>
Yup. I got a Netgear ISDN router. I had it set to forward *only* the non-
standard port, but for some reason that doesn't appear to be working. 
However, I got into the router and re-enabled the port 22 forward and it's 
working now. I don't like having that port enabled though, so I'm going to 
have to play with it and see if I can't get the non-standard port working 
again... funny thing, it *was* working in FC6. I think I'll back up the 
current sshd_config and copy the one from FC6 in and see if that makes a 
difference.