Using a VPN purely to get a static IP

Greg_M

Greg_M

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My CoolIdeas IP gets reset multiple times a week, which is massively inconvenient as we're using IP based security restrictions on our AWS access layers.

Can' someone dumb down how I would use a VPN purely to get a static IP... Running on Windows 10 Professional
 
Either pay for a VPN service or set up a VPN server, it's not that difficult but can end up costing a bit.

Are you sure you can't chat with @PBCool and see if you can get a static ip sorted? Will probably cost you extra, but would be a lot better than the added latency/hop to the VPN server.

EDIT:
If you are seriously considering hosting your own VPN server, AWS guide: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/awsmarketplace/setting-up-openvpn-access-server-in-amazon-vpc/
Pick the region closest to you, latency is quite important in this case.

Another option is on Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-network/
 
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Greg_M said:
My CoolIdeas IP gets reset multiple times a week, which is massively inconvenient as we're using IP based security restrictions on our AWS access layers.

Can' someone dumb down how I would use a VPN purely to get a static IP... Running on Windows 10 Professional
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Are you able to have allow hostnames added to that list?


If so, Occam's razor says you can create a free dynamic DNS account.

Boom, done.
 
Rickster said:
Are you able to have allow hostnames added to that list?


If so, Occam's razor says you can create a free dynamic DNS account.

Boom, done.
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Not supported natively within AWS, so if restrictions are set on a security group and or NACL level, hostname whitelisting is out the question..
 
Johnatan56 said:
Either pay for a VPN service or set up a VPN server, it's not that difficult but can end up costing a bit.

Are you sure you can't chat with @PBCool and see if you can get a static ip sorted? Will probably cost you extra, but would be a lot better than the added latency/hop to the VPN server.
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Been in touch with them, and only FTTB get static IPs.... R4k vs R1k... crazy pricing
 
I would do this a bit differently. Spin up a small linux instance in AWS and install OpenVPN access server on it. Then connect to the aws vpn server when you want to access aws resources. On your security groups you can just allow the internal IP of the vpn server.

That would also allow you to then make less of your applications and ports open to the public, and servers can go in private subnets instead.
 
yep I was sick and tired of having to go into my smartdnsproxy account and resetting the IP everytime my router rebooted or internet went down.

got a static IP from Websquad and boom happy chappy
 
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