Router port forwarding solves that and if you broadband cable provider doesn’t provide a static IP address (or want exorbitant $$) then DDNS solves that. I use Dynu for DDNS - fast and free
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Their it guy doesn’t want to let it through there firewall. They have a static ip, but thanks for this. Could be useful for another client in the furry future.
So IT does not allow https: connections? Current FMS no longer uses 5003 but uses port 443 just so that organizations would not have to deal with port configs
Yeah, all their web posting happens offsite. Nothing comes into their building. They don’t currently have any need for web ports or even offsite access to file maker so it’s not a huge thing. But I have a second school that can’t host it internally because their IT department won’t allow anything through, And They do use the web component and I couldn’t maintain it remotely if we put it in house.
A big part of the problem is schools just don’t have the budgets to hire qualified IT people, And aren’t savvy enough to just outsource the stuff they don’t know how to do well so there’s a big culture of no because bad things might happen.
So no one can access a web page from inside the building? That seems to be problematic in today’s day and age. But it would certainly reduce children exposure to inappropriate content ( as well as appropriate content ) The effort it would take to configure a unidirectional https connection and have external web pages work, would likely be significant. Not even sure that would be possible.
There are some great school oriented content filtering open source tools out there. A ton of free products have been created for that space. I would guess that IT is windows oriented but almost all these tools as ‘nix based
No they don’t allow incoming http connections. The firewall is locked down, which is common in most schools. It’s easier just to lock all the incoming ports then to manage routing and security around that
We see the same thing. The issue is that ratio of risk to reward is overwhelming. Most schools have an IT generalist looking after their systems. They are OK with managing the Microsoft toolkit but, most frequently, they are weak on networking (its complicated).
Even a very competent network/system admin can make a mistake, and they only need to make one mistake. There are thousands of attacks hitting the system everyday.