[Box Backup] NATed Server, static IP clients

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Tobias,

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Tobias Heinzmann wrote:

> I`ve got a server thats behind a NAT and two clients that have their own 
> static IPs, spreaded on the broad wide net.
>
> To use the server for this clients, too, I thought of opening a tunnel 
> from the server to the clients so that the clients simply can connect to 
> themselves and get redirected to the server. Because there is no way to 
> get an additional forwarding rule in the fw. :-/
...
> - how do I tell the clients to connect to themselves, while using the
>  real server cert?

No need, it will just work. Box Backup (bbackupd) doesn't check the 
server name in the certificate anyway.

Please make sure you can telnet to localhost:2201 on each client before 
reporting any connection problems.

Cheers, Chris.
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