Exposing a machine working in a local network to the world

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peress
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Exposing a machine working in a local network to the world

Post by peress » 2017/12/05 17:07:10

Hi, I'm not a linux man and I need little help. Well, I have a machine that I want to share with an outsider so that she can install some things.
The machine that I want to share works in the local network. I want to assign it an external IP address. How to do it?
Thanks for all the help.

lightman47
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Re: Exposing a machine working in a local network to the world

Post by lightman47 » 2017/12/05 22:19:44

You don't assign your external address, your ISP does. Additionally, you likely have a dynamic address that changes periodically. ISPs typically charge more for static, non-changing addresses. There are alternatives however - research dynamic DNS on google. It's generally cheaper than a static IP.

Whoever
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Re: Exposing a machine working in a local network to the world

Post by Whoever » 2017/12/06 06:02:29

peress wrote:Hi, I'm not a linux man and I need little help. Well, I have a machine that I want to share with an outsider so that she can install some things.
The machine that I want to share works in the local network. I want to assign it an external IP address. How to do it?
Thanks for all the help.
If I understand your query correctly, this is something that you need to configure on your gateway router.

lightman47
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Re: Exposing a machine working in a local network to the world

Post by lightman47 » 2017/12/06 13:13:14

No. Either you buy a static IP from your ISP, or you subscribe to a dynamic dns service (or a free one if you can find one).

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Re: Exposing a machine working in a local network to the world

Post by Whoever » 2017/12/06 16:21:34

lightman47 wrote:No. Either you buy a static IP from your ISP, or you subscribe to a dynamic dns service (or a free one if you can find one).
My IP (Cable Internet) is almost static. It only changes when the ISP reconfigures their network and I get an IP address from a completely different range. Other than that, it can remain unchanged for years at a time.

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Re: Exposing a machine working in a local network to the world

Post by lightman47 » 2017/12/06 17:42:44

Yeh - my DSL will run months on the same address, then change twice in as many weeks. :|

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