Excito B3, User Manual

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ReachingB3fromoutside
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This is the simplest way of connecting to B3 from the Internet!
The firewall in B3 protects your home computers from attacks from the out-
side, by blocking traffic that is not directly requested from the inside. B3 has
this functionality. In chapter “Firewall” on page 58 you find information about the
firewall settings.
You can easily enable access for certain services such as email access from
WWW etc or choose to open standard ports in an convenient way.
Use Easyfind described in section Easyfind below to to let you or your friends
to easy find your B3 on the Internet.
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asyfind
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Personal domain name
Easyfind is a free DNS hosting service provided by Excito to make it simple for
you to reach your B3 - anywhere, anytime. To be able to use Easyfind you have
to have B3 as router in your LAN.
Log in as administrator, click ‘Settings’ -> ‘Identity’ and activate ‘Easyfind loca-
tion service’. Select an Easyfind name and click update. Now you will be able to
find your B3 wherever you are typing http://<your-Easyfind-name>.myownb3.
com.
If you have a dynamic IP address, you need an additional service that keeps
track of your current IP address. You will get that using our service Easyfind
and you will be able to reach your B3 wherever you are.
If you change your easyfind name, the old name will immediately be released
for others to use. Excito holds the right to terminate the service or remove in-
appropriate names without notice.