Directadmin Port

[Matt]

I'm thinking of switching from my current host do to the major annoyance of having the site admin panel (in this case cpanel) only accessible through a non-standard port (like 2222). Thus if my site goes down, I cannot access anything through my corporate firewall until I get home.

Does HostPC allow you to access the site admin panel (DirectAdmin?) through a standard port like 80 or 443?

Thank you.
Matt

[Matt]

31+ views and no answer? Am I to assume that you do not offer this?

[Joe]

Port 2222 is the only way to access DirectAdmin control panel... sorry.

[thevillageinn]

I swear I answered this post...a few days ago. No idea what happened to my reply.

Oh well.

My only other suggestion, was to ask your Network Admin to allow 2222. Well, or what about forwarding a port? you could set up a tunnel of some sort if you have broadband at home, or somewhere where you're in charge of the firewall rules.

[caddickj]

Originally posted by thevillageinn@Sep 16 2004, 04:17 AM
My only other suggestion, was to ask your Network Admin to allow 2222. Well, or what about forwarding a port? you could set up a tunnel of some sort if you have broadband at home, or somewhere where you're in charge of the firewall rules.
Hey Dan, can you elaborate on that a bit? I'm clueless when it comes to port forwarding. I don't understand how setting up a port forward at home could help you access it at work.

And is port forwarding and tunnelling the same thing? If not, how do you go about setting up a tunnel?

[thevillageinn]

well I have no idea, but I know I worked for a while on setting up a tunnel for VNC at home from work.

My thought was that if you are able to gain open access with port 80 you could set up some sort of proxy / mapper which would listen for your connection at port 80 and then send that traffic on to port 2222 of a specified domain / ip. In theory it's probably great, but in practice it's probably not possible.

The forwarding, to the best of my knowledge, would listen on a specific port for traffic, lets just say 5800. When it received traffic on that port it would in turn forward that traffic to a specified ip:port, in my case it was an internalip:59xx. For simple port forwarding in Windows, I believe I used a tool from AnalogX (Port Mapper (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pmapper.htm)) but I'm not positive.

The tunnel on the other hand is an encrypted connection between two computers. I think that requires both ends to be running the same program, but I'm not positive.

Thing is that I haven't worked on this in a while, and I'm a lot hazy, but I know that I was using Zebedee (http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/) to create a tunnel in Windows. (It looks like Zebedee has fallen by the way side a bit. A google search is probably in order, or scour the VNC (http://www.realvnc.com/) page about securing VNC connections, which is how I found out about Zebedee in the first place)

Good luck deciphering my drivel this morning.