[ale] HomeVPN

[Richard Bronosky]

If this is for home use, then you probably have only 1 public IP and are
using NAT internally. If so, you can publicly host DNS that exposes your
private IPs (10. or 192.168. etc.) with impunity.
On Nov 13, 2012 5:04 PM, "Brian MacLeod" <nym.bnm at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 11/13/12 4:50 PM, Robert L. Harris wrote:
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> > yeah, didn't think it was possible,  would be nice though.
> >
>
> On the other hand, should you have your own domain, you could publish
> (*PUBLICALLY*) addresses to your internal network (or use external
> addresses), and then specifically tell OpenVPN to push routes that
> would direct traffic to those destination IPs through the VPN
> connection. If you publish the externals, redirecting gets messy --
> you also have to get a little loose with any firewall/forwarding rules
> on the VPN hosts (and potentially intervening hosts, since they need
> to know how to route packets BACK to the clients).  But if you publish
> internal network addresses, it wouldn't be too bad since defining a
> route to your internal network is expected.  Also, take into
> consideration that there may be hosts/addresses in use on the clients'
> current network that may use similar addressing schemes.  You'd likely
> know this before it became and application/sharing problem because
> likely you'd overlap on connection, and thus have problems establishing...
>
>
> It can work.  It's not easy, prone to mistakes, and, prone to being an
> inadvertent entry point into your network.
>
> There be dragons here.
>
> bnm
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