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Re: Access to TivoWeb and home servers from the net


  • Subject: Re: Access to TivoWeb and home servers from the net
  • From: "Patrick Lidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:49:12 -0000


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "christopher purves"
<CHRIS_PURVES@M...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just going through this now - my tivo cachecard arrived the
other day.
>
> I have a smoothie and my web server running off the orange dmz zone.
>
> I intend to map a virtual directory from the webserver to the tivo and
> create a pin hole on the smoothie (the tivo is in the green zone).
>
> This can then be passworded and will allow me to access tivo from
anywhere
> using
>
> http://myhomeip/tivo
>

Anyone considering providing direct access to their TiVo via fixed IP
really should put a reverse proxy in between (which is the arrangement
described above). The TiVo webserver is a bit of a hack, and I
wouldn't trust it to survive in a hostile environment.

Patrick




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