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Question

Remoting in from behind corporate firewall

Feb 9, 2015 6:34AM PST

So my question is a little vague, but I figured someone here may be able to explain how this is happening.

At work, I am behind a very strict firewall, not sure exactly what the hardware is, but it blocks a large majority of traffic, in particular remote desktop ports.

As it stands, no one at the office is able to remote in to a computer outside the network. However, after setting up my home PC for remote connections, I found that I was able to remote in from the office. The home PC is using the default RD port (3389) and is behind a ddwrt setup using ddns.

We tried figuring out how this was possible, but couldn't come up with any solutions. Would anyone have some insight as to the possibilities here?

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Re: firewall
Feb 9, 2015 6:58AM PST

Let's say the firewall blocks the incoming port, but not the outgoing traffic.

If you're responsible for the firewall, and don't like that: change it.
If you're a happy user: choose between (1) silence and (2) suggesting the responsible department to change it

Kees

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Easy.
Feb 9, 2015 7:25AM PST

Easy as in, this is required by your job so you get the IT to make it happen. If that fails you have them fix up a solution to get your work done.

At our office we block such and for remote work just setup the laptop with apps and files as needed.
Bob