Troubleshooting connection issues

[garrettroyce]

According to what you mentioned above, then the "dedicated" ip assigned to my account is meaningless.

Theoretically, if the IP address of either A) server1.x10vpn.com or B) your personal VPN changes, it makes sense to use a URL, which will not change. I'm merely pointing out that the URL system was invented to avoid the cumbersomeness and dynamic nature of the IP address system.

I hope this clarifies what I said in reference to your first post in this thread. I'm sorry if you are unhappy with my thoughts, but I don't see why you would call the service "meaningless" as anything you can do with a static IP address you can do with a dynamic IP address with a little extra work.

[ckster60]

Yeah, we'll be adding in the ability for user's to change their rDNS record if they have a dedicated IP.

Allowing users to to change their rDNS record is a nice feature, I am sure that al least some people don't like to have their dedicated IP rDNS record has the "vpn" on it.

If there a few more ip assigned for login and be routed into this vpn server, and be named as "server2.x10vpn.com", "server3.x10vpn.com", "server4.x10vpn.com", etc., then the whole service is in a really very good shape for testing. Those additional ips may not need to be physically located in different geographical locations as that certain vpn providers are doing now, especially at this beta stage.

I have test the vpn service for a few hours now, I believe the longest connection was around 75min, in fact, this is my longest time stayed in an vpn, I would say I am feeling very positive at the moment.

[ckster60]

I'm sorry if you are unhappy with my thoughts......

I don't have the strong feeling on your post. I think you and I are focus on the different aspect of the vpn usages, I am a light-weight and occasional user, normally I don't consider using vpn unless I am on certain kind of trips, so the accessibility of a vpn is on the first priority, I don't consider a vpn service with a single domain name, or single ip for login to be a good service, it is just too easy to be blocked by any firewall.

On the other end, I believe you are more concern on how static or permanent the dedicated IP is. If I plan on use x10vpn to remote administrate certain servers I will have the same concern as you, it is a nightmare if a firewall is allowed a single ip to connect through, then that ip suddenly be changed, but I am very confident that Corey and his colleagues at x10 will be very carefully to re-assigned those dedicated IPs, at least an advanced notice have reasonable grace period will be given, otherwise the Premium Service will not have much different with my home server running CentOS with pptpd service enabled and equipped with TZO or DynDNS client.

[GtoXic]

UPDATE:

If you cannot connect after following everything in this thread, see http://toxic-productions.com/x10stuff/vpnstatus.php to check the status.

[GtoXic]

question:

Will the VPN allow people with your dedicated IP to access your PC, say port 80? Or would that be a case of still setting a Port Forward up in the router?

[garrettroyce]

I *think* you would need X10VPN to port forward from your dedicated public IP to your private VPN IP, much like a router port forwards from your public IP to your private NAT IP.

[Corey]

Incoming connections to your dedicated IP are automatically NAT'd to your assigned private IP, so if you were running a web server on 0.0.0.0:80, in theory it should work. When you connect to the VPN you are assigned a private IP of 5.x.x.x.

[Linkz0rs]

What about IPv6 support? The Internet is finally starting to adapt that more and more. I for one have a dual-stack connection.

[GtoXic]

I'm afraid SingleHOP (our provider) doesn't currently support IPv6. I can't personally give you a date of their planned rollout, either.

[CoolFinalFan]

now I'm back to having connection issues. I've tried using both the dedicated ip address & server1.x10vpn.com
and get a error 619. Even tried it without Comodo Firewall and still nothing...

Thanks!