<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Jay Lozier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com" target="_blank">jslozier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Does publicly visible mean an open, non-commercial WIFI? To many
people use a secured WIFI in their homes to allow them to move
around with having to run cables everywhere.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>publicly visible (in the context I used it) simply meant an IP that could be accessed from the Internet at large. I don't have a static IP on my home server now but I do have *AN* IP that I can get to from anywhere in the world (networkologically), so with that and a port forward on my home router, I can ssh to my home server from anywhere, for example. (Modulo firewalls, etc.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>If all of Bellsouth's customers are behind a NAT, my WAN IP on the router to the ISP is going to be a 10/8 address (10.*.*.*), and that machine will not be directly pingable from the internet. If this happens, I can no longer get to any services I have running on my home server, from outside my home.</div>
<div><br></div><div></div></div><div>I'm an admitted network neophyte, so I apologize if I've gotten terminology (or ideas) wrong; would love to be taught correctly if I have.</div>