Afrihost virtual phone home

Enter the @afrihost.co.za connectivity user name:

Once you have activated the redirection, you can reach your home server at this name and IP:

If your home connection replies to ICMP-Echo requests, you can test it with ping:

# ping pptp-virtual.afrihost.com
PING pptp-virtual.afrihost.com (165.73.13.201) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 165-73-13-201.ip.afrihost.co.za (165.73.13.201): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=25.1 ms
64 bytes from 165-73-13-201.ip.afrihost.co.za (165.73.13.201): icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=25.6 ms
64 bytes from 165-73-13-201.ip.afrihost.co.za (165.73.13.201): icmp_seq=3 ttl=44 time=25.1 ms
64 bytes from 165-73-13-201.ip.afrihost.co.za (165.73.13.201): icmp_seq=4 ttl=44 time=25.5 ms

--- pptp-virtual.afrihost.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 25.084/25.339/25.639/0.237 ms

Limitations

This service is subject to a number of limitations