Re: Inside / Outside network access

Doesn't this mean that when the customer is in their house, all the
data flows out and back, or at least to the router and back?

I've had experiences where a router (usually Qwest's Actiontecs) won't
properly redirect a request for the outside IP/domain name of a house
back into the same house. The router would usually "absorb" the
request or try to attach to nonexistent ports on itself rather than
forwarding back properly. Drove me nuts when I was hosting stuff from
my home server.

Heath

On Jul 27, 9:53 am, Eric <ecle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Assuming the router you use supports it, a DNS service like DNSMasq
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq) should handle IP translation
> and forwarding of any domain name, including internal ones. (tomato,
> dd-wrt and pfsense all use it)
>
> What we do is issue each of our clients their own domain name, a sub-
> domain of ours: <clientname>.ourdomain.net. The client's router
> updates their domain name public IP through the DDNS service. If your
> router uses DNSMasq or a similar DNS service (http://en.wikipedia.org/
> wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_server_software), it will know how to properly
> translate and forward the IP for <clientname>.ourdomain.net for any
> ipod/iphone/ipad running CF regardless if it on the local network or
> remotely over the internet.
>
> The domain name is placed in the CF program instead of the internal
> LAN IP of the Crestron processor or public IP of the modem. No need to
> have to change an IP address again.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Eric
>
> On Jul 27, 10:03 am, Heath Volmer <hvol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've dug around a bit in the forum but can't really tell if this has
> > been answered:
>
> > Doing all of the proper forwarding, how does a user easily switch
> > between in-home access and external access to their Crestron system?
> > I can go into the project and change the IP address to point in from
> > the outside, but that's not really a practical solution.  Am I missing
> > a feature?  I hope I didn't over-sell it.
>
> > Thanks, Heath

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