[Techtalk] Problem with tunneling SSH

Christine Pukropski christine at hive76.org
Sat Jul 7 00:38:15 UTC 2018


Yep, its probably blocked on her router.

Typically, you can go to private IP address (usually 192.168.1.1 or
10.0.0.1) in a browser and by default, the router interface is hosted there
(unless you are a paranoid freak like me change it some random address
lol). Out of the box, it will usually live there.

>From there you should see some default login screen. The username is
usually 'admin' and the password for netgear routers, etc. is usually the
same for all routers and can easily be found on google. From the login
page, you should be able to tell what router she is using and look up what
the password is. If its the default one from Comcast or Verizon it will
have the password on the side on a sticker. Once you are in the router, you
can go to the advance > port forwarding and open up port 22 for ssh to your
home IP, or to the world. If your home public IP is static I would
recommend opening port 22 to your public IP. You can find it by doing 'dig
+short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com'

You can also check from teamviewer if she has openssh installed or if it
needs to be updated and if there is a default firewall with ufw, iptables,
etc. Usually, the latter shouldn't be an issue but is a good thing to
check. I have had issues with the former with my moms PC in ssh'ing to it
and it turned out openssh was not installed out of the box
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Configuring (this was for
linux mint).

If I remember correctly, she was using Ubuntu, do you know what version she
is on now? Also, if she was the one that you transitioned from AIM to
Hangouts on pidgin, I should note google unfortunately just updated their
hangouts platform and removed their integration with google voice. It
messed up a lot of things and even though it technically should not affect
your friend, and it would probably be worth it to reconfigure pidgin
again.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/google-reportedly-removing-sms-texting-from-hangouts-on-may-22/

Hope this helps!

All the best,
Christine
Hive76, Publicist

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:11 PM, Yardena Cohen <yardenack at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:20 AM David Sumbler <david at aeolia.co.uk> wrote:
> > It would be useful for me sometimes to be able to SSH to a terminal,
> > and this is something I used to do quite often.  But I have tried to do
> > it lately (at times when I know her computer is running because I am in
> > the middle of a conversation with her).  But I can't make a straight
> > connection.
>
> Incoming connections are probably blocked by a router on her subnet.
> You would need that router to forward a port, or set up a tunnel to
> somewhere else from her computer.
>
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