[mdlug] OT: Comcast rant

[Michael S. Mikowski]

Perhaps a blocked port?  If you aren't already, you might want to set up your 
network to accept ssh traffic on a non-standard port.  On the router WTR54G 
Linksys router with dd-wrt firmware, I was able to forward a high port (e.g. 
3333) to port 22 on the local box.  That way I can use regular ssh at home, 
e.g:

ssh myserver.mydomain

And use this command from the coffee shop:

ssh -p3333 <WAN_IP>

Notice that scp is inconsistent and requires a capital P:

scp -P3333 <WAN_IP>:/some/path ./

Hope that helps!

Cheers, Mike



/etc/On Saturday 21 February 2009 13:25:39 Michael wrote:
> After the help I got from everyone on this list a few weeks ago I finally
> set up my home network and it has been great. Thanks to everyone.
> This regards trying to access my computer from the outside world. I finally
> go things together to have port forwarding from the router and life was
> great. I was able to ssh into my home computer, and finally through a nice
> tunnel was able to listen to the media at my house over a daap beacon. I
> was in heaven.
>
> It appears that Comcast didn't want to keep me happy. I no longer have
> access to my computer from outside. My ip address hasn't changed, nothing
> on the computer has changed. Even a traceroute to the ip address dies at a
> Comcast station in Southfield. After about 3 hours and at least one
> representive hanging up on me, Comcast finally opened a ticket, saying they
> will get back to me sometime soon (surprise still no callback), but also
> throwing in there that this is probably not anything they will fix.
>
> So beside complaining about Comcast, which is quickly becoming one of my
> favorite past times, I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations for
> A.) getting around this restriction, B.) actually getting through to
> Comcast, that they are not providing me with full internet access.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
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