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My blue iris is visible now on my LAN. When I forward the port (now 81) it is visible on my WAN address as well.
I don't know which of the things I did (mentioned in a previous post, re-start BI, reboot computer, changed port etc
resulted in BI becoming visible on my LAN again, but I'm happy that it is.
Also I had not realized that you can use ports within the LAN and they work - without forwarding them. I had always t hought that on the LAN no ports were used or necessary. Now I see that if a camera HAS a port number it needs to be used to see it on the LAN (w/o BI). To see it on the WAN
that port must also be forwarded or else the BI port 81 must be forwarded to see BI at my WAN address.
Another thing that "showed up" this morning was two of my cameras had "motion" trigger turned on - which I did NOT do. Perhaps restarting BI
did that? No I wouldn't think so. But last night I had some IP connections which are ugly when checked on AbuseIPDB - IP address abuse reports - Making the Internet safer, one IP at a time
so maybe one of those intruders turned on motion triggering? 66.240.236.119 was a "baddie". The timing does not match exactly but only misses by minutes.
So I'm pretty happy for the most part, but I am getting unwanted connections showing up in BI if port 81 is forwarded so I closed the forwarding
down (for BI and ALL cameras) and I am looking more into VPN. One article I found tells how to use windows 7 to do a VPN. Any ideas whether or not that is good enough?
My blue iris is visible now on my LAN. When I forward the port (now 81) it is visible on my WAN address as well.
I don't know which of the things I did (mentioned in a previous post, re-start BI, reboot computer, changed port etc
resulted in BI becoming visible on my LAN again, but I'm happy that it is.
Also I had not realized that you can use ports within the LAN and they work - without forwarding them. I had always t hought that on the LAN no ports were used or necessary. Now I see that if a camera HAS a port number it needs to be used to see it on the LAN (w/o BI). To see it on the WAN
that port must also be forwarded or else the BI port 81 must be forwarded to see BI at my WAN address.
Another thing that "showed up" this morning was two of my cameras had "motion" trigger turned on - which I did NOT do. Perhaps restarting BI
did that? No I wouldn't think so. But last night I had some IP connections which are ugly when checked on AbuseIPDB - IP address abuse reports - Making the Internet safer, one IP at a time
so maybe one of those intruders turned on motion triggering? 66.240.236.119 was a "baddie". The timing does not match exactly but only misses by minutes.
So I'm pretty happy for the most part, but I am getting unwanted connections showing up in BI if port 81 is forwarded so I closed the forwarding
down (for BI and ALL cameras) and I am looking more into VPN. One article I found tells how to use windows 7 to do a VPN. Any ideas whether or not that is good enough?