Andrew Zbikowski wrote: > Back when I had roomates who wanted SSH access to their box, we just > setup the router to forward some high ports to the ssh port on the > Linux machine. > > ie: > Justin's Box was port 1022 > My Box was port 1033. > > Then we just used the wild card option in dyndns, so we were doing > > ssh -p 1022 kremer.geekapt.homeip.net > ssh -p 1023 zibby.geekapt.homeip.net > > It worked out well enough until you hit a firewall that blocked > outbound ports. ;) If you're not connecting from too many places, it is useful to use your ~/.ssh/config file to do something like this: host zibby Hostname zibby.geekapt.homeip.net User drue Port 1023 Then from the command line all you have to do is "ssh zibby". Similar things can be accomplished with an alias, I suppose, but ssh's config allows for other handy things as well.. For instance, I set this on all my machines: host * Compression yes ForwardAgent yes Protocol 2,1 Hope that helps.. Too bad DNS didn't allow for specifying ports, eh? Dan