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Using
TZO Dynamic DNS with your
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You can now use TZO with your
Symantec
Gateway Security 300 or 400 Series
appliances! This
tutorial explains how to setup the TZO DDNS within
your Symantec appliance. In order to use TZO.COM DDNS
services within the Symantec appliances, you must
have a 300/400 V2 Symantec appliance with the latest
firmware (via LiveUpdate) |
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The first step is to setup your Symantec
appliance using the Setup Wizard. Once you have the
appliance set up and running, you can continue
below to setup the TZO DDNS in the appliance.
Step 1) Below is a screenshot
of the TZO.COM signup page where you can signup
with a free trial of TZO DDNS for your Symantec
appliance. To get your free trial domain, you can
signup at http://Symantec.tzo.com
If you already have a TZO.COM account, you can skip
directly to step 2
Once you reach the Symantec signup page as shown
below, you need to enter in your choice for your
domain name, and then your email address, and then
click on the Create My Free Trial Domain button.
Once you do this, TZO will send you an email with
your trial key. Once you get the email with your
TZO trial information, you should write down your
TZO DOMAIN name, and your TZO Key before proceeding
to step 2.
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The Signup page Symantec.tzo.com allows you
to signup for a free trial of TZO (Click to
Enlarge)
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Step 2) Now that you have
signed up with a free trial of the TZO DDNS, you
need to enable the TZO DDNS, and then enter in your
TZO Key, Domain Name and Email address into the
Symantec appliance. Below is a screenshot of the
main WAN/ISP page. In order to get to the Dynamic
DNS section, you need to click on the Dynamic DNS
tab (Shown in the upper right hand corner of the
screenshot below)

The main WAN/ISP page of the Symantec
appliance. You need to select the Dynamic DNS tab
in order to configure the TZO Dynamic DNS service
in the appliance. (Click to
Enlarge)
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Step 3) Your next step is to
click the Dynamic DNS tab from the main screen of
the WAN/ISP page as shown as shown in the
screenshot below. You will now see the TZO Dynamic
DNS service option, as well as fields to enter in
your TZO Key, Email and Domain name. Once you do
this, click the SAVE button at the bottom of the
screen, and then click the UPDATE button to force a
DDNS update to the TZO DDNS servers. This will
force your domain name to sign on to the IP address
of the router. In this case, the Symantec router is
a DUAL WAN router, and we selected TZO to update to
the WAN1 IP address.
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The WAN/ISP - Dynamic DNS tab shows the TZO DDNS
in the Symantec appliance (Click to
Enlarge)
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Step 4) Now that you have setup the TZO DDNS
in the router, your domain name should be pointed to
the current IP address of the router. You can now
setup the router firewall to forward the proper ports
to an internal server. In this example, we show how
to setup a web server to work with the Symantec
appliance. In order to forward ports to a server
connected to the Symantec appliance, you first need
to add a reserved host. In this case, we have a web
server running on the internal IP of 192.168.0.2
In the screenshot below, we added the reserved host
to the list by entering the Hostname, MAC Address,
and IP address in the Firewall/Computers section of
the appliance. You can also select to bind the server
to a specific WAN port and other options. Once you
enter in the information, you can click the ADD
button to add the host to the reserved
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In order to forward ports, you must set a
reserved host in the Symantec appliance (Click to
Enlarge)
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Step 5) Now that you have
reserved a host and IP for your server as shown in
step 4, you should select the INBOUND RULES tab as
shown in the screenshot below. In this example, we
added a web server called LAPTOP as a host in step
4, and now we need to add a rule to forward the WEB
port (port 80) to that specific host. Under the
Rule Definition area, select the Application server
from the dropdown list (this is the reserved host
that we added in step 4 - called LAPTOP) We now
select HTTP from the dropdown list of services, and
then select the ADD button to add HTTP port
forwarding to the application server called LAPTOP
as shown below.
That's it! To add other application servers and
services, simply repeat Step 4 and 5 for each
additional server and service you wish to run. If
you have more questions on the Symantec series of
firewall appliances, please see the Symantec website
If
your ISP blocks access to port 80 inbound, you can
use the TZO HTTP Relay services to get around the
blocked ports. For more information on the TZO HTTP
relay and other services offered by TZO.COM, please
see the website at http://www.tzo.com
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The INBOUND RULES screen of the Symantec
appliance allows port forwarding (Click to
Enlarge)
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