Re: Setting up VSFTP at Home - Please Help

From: Charif Lakchiri (charif_at_nospam.com)
Date: 06/14/05 

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:20:06 +0900

Hi,

"mohamad2181" <mohamad2181@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:INSdnYmN-47y0DHfRVn-pQ@rogers.com...
> Good Day All,
>
> I am trying to setup an ftp server at home so I can make some files
> available over the internet. I am using VSFTP with redhat 8.0 and it
> works
> fine as long I use the IP of my server at home provided by ISP. Here is
> the
> trick, instead of using
> ftp://192.168.1.1/docs I want to be able to use something like
> ftp://training.linuxathome.com.

First you want to make sure your server can be reached from the outside.
192.168.1.1 is a private IP address assigned to your server by, I assume, a
router. (but in case the private IP is assigned directly by your ISP, I
think there's little you can do to setup your server...)
Assuming your router is a fairly new one, it should have a built-in
firewall. What you want to do is open the necessary TCP ports for FTP (which
are 20 for data and 21 for control) and setup a packet forwarding rule on
the router along with NAT (Network Address Translation) so that the router
will forward the FTP WAN side (global IP's) incomming packets to your
server's private IP's FTP ports.

> I don't have a lot of networking background, so please bare with me and
> hopefully by answering these I'll have better Idea where to start.
>
> 1) Do I need to setup DNS ?
> 2) If I do, that means I need to have domain name hosted by my ISP,
> correct?

No and no.

> 3) I heard that some companies offer free DNS hosting, if that is
> correct,
> who are these companies?

I use dyndns.org

> 4) what is the best way to approach this?

visit dyndns.org, create an account, choose your host name and update its IP
address.
you may want to install an automatic update program on your server so that
each time your WAN side (global) IP changes, that tool will update your host
information on dyndns.org for you. there's a list of programs (clients) on
the same website.

>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
> Thank you
>

You're welcome.
Hope this helped.

Cheers.
Charif.

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