Well I'm obviously having a hard time getting my head around this
stuff.
We had created Windows Firewall exceptions for port 5900. Also, though
my parents' broadband service is supposedly dynamic DNS, I haven't
seen it change at all from the 79.75.XXX.XXX I mentioned.
So, if it's destination NAT/port forwarding, do I need to follow the
guide at
http://www.portforward.com/english/r...G834Gindex.htm
On Feb 6, 7:28 pm, w...@xxxxxx (the wharf rat) wrote:
Quote:
> No I'm talking about destination nat where an external IP is
> permanently mapped to an internal ip so that one or more ports on that
> IP are exposed. To an external client it looks like the web server (for
> instance) is running on the external ip but it's really on an internal host.
>
> Well, I've heard it called "port forwarding" but it's really
> destination nat :-)
>
> FWIW I seem to remember that VNC uses port 5900...