reaching a server behind a NAT

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On 09/05/2011 11:20 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> sorry if this is not purely Fedora related, but I was hoping I might get
> some feedback anyhow from someone who knows more than I do.
> 
> I have this:
> 
> A NAT-configured router between my house and the internet.
> A NAS behind the router.
> A dyndns account, set up and pointing to the global address of the router.
> 
> I want to be able to reach the NAS from the internet. However, trying to
> do so (including attempts to bind to specific ports on the NAS) simply
> do not work, and I cannot tell why.


  One question - when you're testing this are you trying from an outside
internet account ? If you're trying to test this from within your
internal network (even via the outside public IP) it likely wont work.