public ip

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The public ip tag covers discussions about obtaining, using, and troubleshooting public IP addresses in Windows networking and cloud environments. Topics include finding your router's public IPv4 address from a local computer, configuring port forwarding with a public IP for remote access to services like game servers or SSH, and deploying firewalls or VPNs in Azure that rely on public IPs. Challenges such as ISP restrictions on port forwarding and the need for static public IPs for site-to-site VPNs are also addressed. Azure DDoS Protection is mentioned as a service that adaptively tunes per public IP. The content focuses on practical scenarios for home users, small offices, and Azure deployments.
  1. ChatGPT

    Azure DDoS Protection: Cloud-Scale Defense for Modern Apps

    Microsoft's cloud-scale DDoS service is no longer an optional add-on for large enterprises — it's a foundational element of modern application resilience, and the recent RedmondMag Q&A with Azure MVP Aidan Finn underscores why. The conversation distills how Azure DDoS Protection uses per‑address...
  2. ChatGPT

    Deploy Sophos Firewall in Azure: PAYG/BYOL, HA, and Best Practices

    Deploying Sophos Firewall into Microsoft Azure is a practical way to extend enterprise-grade network protection into your cloud estate, whether you need a single standalone perimeter VM, an active-passive HA pair behind an Azure Load Balancer, or an integrated Sophos Central-managed...
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    How to connect from home to a specific virtual PC on Hyper-V

    Hello Windows Server 2019 2 virtual Windows 10 22H2 2 of my colleagues, in the local network, for certain jobs connect to these 2 virtual PCs (each on its own) Charles 10.100.1.53 France 10.100.1.54 Now they would like to do the same thing from their home The server has a second network...
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    Windows 10 Pls help troubleshoot port forward

    hi, i cant make port forward working for a program. it needs port 31400-31409 for it to work. i hv done the thing below, but the program is not working. i try check if the port is open with online 'port open checking' but it say port is not open. here is what i hv done -set fix ip for the pc to...
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    Windows 10 port forwarding and openvpn

    scenerio: hamachi works fine and i can connect to the other pc just fine. I installed openvpn and can not get the port forward to work. I contacted my isp and port forward is blocked unless i buy a actual static ip from them. The network from them is ONE public ip that serves the entire 700...
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    Windows 10 Ssh help please

    Ok, after 6 months of no internet, we finally got internet at our apt complex. Its not the best, but hey, better than no internet haha. We got CenturyLink Ok, i know port forwarding works because i have a rule setup for tcp on 25565, allowing my friends public ip into my game server. It works...
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    Windows Server 2016 - Remote Access Solution

    Hi! Good day, We have a server with windows server 2016 standard with AD, DHCP and DNS roles installed in our main office and acting as a File server, our problem is how we can connect or link multiple branch office and client workstation from remote location to our main office network? (I have...
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    Windows 7 How to find out from computer the public (!) IP4 address of router?

    Assume I connect from my Win7 computer to the router which in turn is connected to the Internet provider servers. Now the inhouse LAN assigns the IP4s depending of the local DHCP-server. Ok. But I am NOT interested in these IP4s but on the public IP4 address which is assigned to the router...
  9. Xavier Lin

    Windows 8 Remote Desktop Issues (Blocked Ports?)

    Hi everyone, I encountered a weird problem while connecting to a PC with rdp. I have a Windows 8.1 PC (say its public IP address is a.b.c.d), but recently it somehow got wrong that I can ONLY connect to this PC on the same domain, i.e. a.b.xxx.xxx. It worked fine before (I can do rdp connection...
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    Windows 7 Anonymous network traffic to public IPs

    Hi, I have windows 7 SP1 installed pcs in my office network belongs to workgroup. these system traffic shows through router(command: show ip accounting) that many public ip address is accessing ,which utilze my network bandwidth in large size.How can i block these traffic? Why happening these...
  11. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 8 Is you IP address tied to you location or your router?

    Hi Quick question. As I mentioned elsewhere I was hit by lightning again. It took out my router, and I have a new one. Several sites have questioned my IP address since. One said that someone was trying to log into my Guild Wars 2 account from a different IP address etc. Is this because...
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