[SWLUG] SSH changes after broadband/router installation ... ?

['o-Dzin Tridral]

Dear all,

Something odd has happened and SSH now works.  Yesterday morning I checked my IP address with 'whatismyip' again and it had changed.  So I put *that* address in at the website and now everything works.

I'm as much at a lost to know why it works as I was to know why it didn't.

Many thanks to Chris for replying.  In this case I didn't event get the chance to try his advice.

'o-Dzin




 --- On Fri 05/14, Chris M. Jackson chris-at-zenii.linux.org.uk |swlug.org.uk| 6h97hxq6xq0t-at-sneakemail.com |not at XXXXXXXXX/1.0-Allow| < 2deshxq6zg0t at sneakemail.com > wrote:
From: Chris M. Jackson chris-at-zenii.linux.org.uk |swlug.org.uk| 6h97hxq6xq0t-at-sneakemail.com |not at XXXXXXXXX/1.0-Allow| [mailto: 2deshxq6zg0t at sneakemail.com]
To: gbve6hk02 at sneakemail.com
     Cc: Discuss at swlug.org.uk
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 23:39:20 +0100
Subject: Re: [SWLUG] SSH changes after broadband/router installation ... ?

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 18:41, 'o-Dzin Tridral wrote:<br>> Since installing broadband and the router (and thank you for your advice - the phone bill's dropped dramatically!), I've not been able to SSH to a site that I was able to get to beforehand. I don't know if these two things are related at all.<br><br>> (discovered via whatismyip.com).  That is supposed to be enough.<br>whatismyip.com returns the address from which the HTTP request was<br>received.  In many cases with broadband, your HTTP requests may be<br>routed through a supposedly "transparent" proxy, and this is the value<br>that whatismyip.com will see.  Try a DNS lookup on that IP and see if it<br>is something with "cache" or "proxy" in the name.<br><br>If you have ssh access on the router, ifconfig or ip addr should be able<br>to help.  Black-box commercial routers might show the IP address<br>somewhere on its configuration screens.  If you have shell access<br>elsewhere, try logging in there and using w or who to establish your<br>address.<br><br>HTH<br><br>-- <br>Chris M. Jackson<br>No, no interesting sig for you today.<br><br>

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