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Asked: 2011-08-18 10:42:52 +0800 CST

Using a dynamic dns securely

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I'm bit of a newcomer when it comes to networking, firewalls and port forwarding - please bear with me:

I've just setup a dynamic DNS that points to my external IP and are handled through my Cisco router. Everything fine so far. When I visited my DNS through the browser, http://exampledynamicdns.com, I got redirected to the backend GUI of my router - kind of expected, but still not cool.

So to prevent my Router settings from being available on the interwebs, I did a port forward of port 80 to a non-existent IP on my LAN.

Is this a good practice or not?

firewall router port-forwarding dyndns

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    Sure. This is an acceptable workaround.

    Better would be to configure the router not to expose the web interface for external IPs, configure it to run on a separate port than 80, password-protect the web interface. But sometimes you have these very cheap routers that can't be configured that way. Buying a better one is recommended but not necessary.

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