Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Celejar wrote: 
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:14:59 -0400
> Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 25 October 2019 09:13:31 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 08:56:19AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > > > Basically, the home network uses 192.168.0.0/24, as do other LANS I
> > > > connect to.
> > >
> > > So change your home network.
> > 
> > 192.168.0.## and 192.168.1.## are the last two blocks I would ever use 
> > for a home network. The potential for a miss-behaving router messing 
> > with your security is mind boggling.  Fortunately for better endowed 
> > routers that can be reflashed, there is dd-wrt.  No NSA back doors, 
> > nothing gets thru it you didn't allow.  It has stood guard over my 
> > machines for around 20 years now.
> 
> Yes, I use OpenWrt.

I use a much better supported system called Debian. It did
require me to spend a bit more on the firewall hardware, but on
the other hand it is tremendously speedy and configurable.

-dsr-