Re: Hosted IBMi connecting to local server

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You need some expert networking help.

The "best" answer depends on various factors:

   - your local network topology
   - your firewalling
   - your vpn to the provider
   - the provider's layout

There's no answer without analysis of the whole setup.

Offhand, the simplest though not necessarily trouble-free answer might be a
persistent ssh tunnel to a jump box in the provider's cloud.
Or any one of several other schemes.


On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 3:00 PM Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We can ping the local server IP address from the IBMi, but are unable to
> connect to the Windows service from within the IBM software.  My guess is
> that when we are performing the ping to the 192.168 address, it's finding a
> device in the hosting site's data center?  The ping result comes back
> split-second.

Yes, of course. That this seems mysterious to you is why I say you need
some expert assistance. Not a marriage to a consultant, but a one-night
stand :)