Afrihost phone home requirements

This platform provides ways to connect to public services on your private home IP address. You can use this service if all of the following apply:

• You are an Afrihost fibre client
• You have some device on your home network that you need to connect to (e.g. security system)
• Your service has a private IP address (e.g. 100.99.98.97)
• For PPTP or forwarding: You have authentication details (which you can change in clientzone, if you need to). Specifically, you need the connectivity user name, which different to the e-mail address that you use to log in to clientzone.
• You are not on the Afrihost network when you want to phone home. (On the Afrihost network, you can connect directly to your router.)

NAT64 phone home

If you have a private IP address at home, and a IPv6-capable connection, you can connect to your home system directly. IP6 address in the subnet 2c0f:f4c0:6::/96 are forwarded to their equivalent IP4 address.

Connectivity user name
Dynamic DNS name
A record
AAAA record

Virtual phone home

This method causes your home router's private IP to appear at a shared virtual address (for the IP address you are connecting from only).

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PPTP phone home

With this method, you use your operating system PPTP system (point to point tunneling protocol) to make a connection, and over that connection you can reach your home network.

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