hi all.
i recently built a server running openSUSE. when trying to connect via ssh or telnet or ftp etc etc on my LAN, everything is ok. i just recently found out that when i try to connect to my world ip address {the ip address everyone else sees,] it does not work. i recently came to the conclusion that since the server i built is running off a router connected to another computer, my world ip is the same as that one, and there is no server built on that computer. is there a way i can connect to the computer that is running the server on my network from outside my network i.e from somewhere else?

thanks
-TXB

DMZ or port forwarding

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erm.... could you shed some more light on DMZ? for example, how would one do this?

Why would you put a server in the DMZ?

Your going to need to do some port forwarding or ssh tunneling, you need to read up on ssh and iptables. I can't be any more specific as it just boils down to forwarding one service port of an internal IP to another port on your WAN side.

Iptables forwarding will be the most likely candidate for what your after.

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no kidding, thanks for info. just configured my router to port forward on the neccessary ports [21, 8080, 22 etc etc] at first i was like "huh?" then it hit me finally. its actually easy once you think about it. thanks for the help M8 :]
-TXB

Your welcome, glad you understood so quickly