My site by IP Address

http://69.178.40.183 - My WAN IP Address     aka: http://183-40-178-69.gci.net

This site is accessed via a public IPv4 address provided by my Internet Service provider (ISP) on a Cable Modem / Gateway / Wireless Access Point that provides Network Address Translation (NAT) service and port forwarding for multiple computers on the Local Area Network (LAN).

I forward the standard http and https ports to my main server ak20:

• HTTP 80 (192.168.40.2) ak20 - Multiple virtual hosts gci.lam1.us
• HTTPS 443 (192.168.40.2) ak20 - *.lam.us Let's Encrypt certificate

• SSH 55519 (192.168.40.7) ak19 - laptop
• SSH 55520 (192.168.40.2) ak20 - main server
• SSH 55524 (192.168.40.9) ak24 - bedroom media workstation

• IMAPS 55593 (192.168.40.2) ak20 - main server

• Monday, May 4, 2026 - Switch to 192.168.40.2/24 CIDR block from 192.168.0.20/24
  • The br0 is not seen by the AK-Fi Home app from GCI.
  • GCI is no longer provisioning internet service for residential users without AK-Fi Home activated.
  • I have lost the ability to ssh to one of the machines through the NAT gateway by activating AK-Fi Home with GCI.
  • SSH 55523 (192.168.40.8) ak23 - media workstation - br0 to allow QEMU servers LAM Alaska LAN access
• Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - Add gitlab source repository link.
• Thursday, September 25, 2025 - Switch to 192.168.0.20/24 CIDR block from 10.55.5.20/24
• Sunday, January 5, 2025 - Added port forwarding section to About page.
• Sunday, November 24, 2024 - I now use name-based virtual host resolution for ssl.
  • This page can be viewed securely at the duckdns.org, lamurakami.com and lam1.us domains and unsecured at the IP Address.
  • ak17 was retired and replaced by ak24
  • ak24 is a Renewed PC purchased on Amazon for $118.75
  • ak23 is a Renewed PC purchased on Amazon for $187.99
• Thursday, April 11, 2024 - ak17 is now at the 10.55.5.71 WiFi IPv4 LAM Alaska LAN Address
  • ak17 is now the bedroom server using the Big Screen TV as a monitor for streaming over WiFi.
• Saturday, November 4, 2023 - New IP Address 206.174.115.122 from 206.174.112.48
  • The reverse DNS name for my new GCI IP Address is correctly configured.
• Monday, December 19, 2022 - New IP Address 206.174.112.48 from 206.174.115.85
  • The reverse DNS name for my new GCI IP Address is not correctly configured.
• Wednesday, November 2, 2022 - New IP Address 206.174.115.85 from 72.42.143.99
  • New GCI Cable Modem WiFi Gateway replacing old Cable Modem and ASUS WiFi Router.
  • New lam1ak.duckdns.org DDNS becasue old lam1ak.asuscomm.com DDNS was tied to the ASUS WiFi Router.
  • Old lam1ak.asuscomm.com DDNS will point to 72.42.143.99 and http://99-143-42-72.gci.net until I use the router again or ASUS drops it.
• Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 3:07:55 PM (Alaska Time) - New IP Address 69.178.107.65 from GCI replaces 72.42.137.181.
• Friday, June 19, 2020 @ 7:47:55 PM (Alaska Time) - Cloning this site to 10.55.5.19 10.55.5.61 and 10.55.5.77 IP addresses (ak19, ak16 and ak7). Brought the site under git control with ak17.lam1.us being an origin repository. Install on a new system with:

  cd /var/www
  git clone git@ak17:gci.git
  
  sudo ln -s /var/www/gci/gci_apache2.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/082_gci.conf
  
  sudo a2ensite 082_gci
  sudo systemctl reload apache2

• Thursday, August 23, 2018 @ 8:24:08 AM (Alaska Time) - The ak17 machine bought after the burglary has been the lam1ak server for some time.
• Monday, June 5, 2017 @ 12:14:36 PM (Alaska Time) - I have ak7 back up and on the Internet after an outage of over 2 months after the burglary and theft of several of my servers. The ASUS RT-AC66U router was not stolen but the antennae was damaged and I ordered a new ASUS RT-N66U router. The lamurakami.asuscomm.com domain name is tied to the old router and the lam1ak.asuscomm.com domain name to the new one.
• Wednesday, February 1, 2017 @ 11:37:52 PM (Alaska Time) - Got a new IP address some time ago.
• Monday, October 17, 2016 @ 9:23:48 PM (Alaska Time) - I updated my site to use the ASUS Dynamic Domain Name Service that the ASUS RT-AC66U router can update automatically. I registered a lamurakami host name and created CNAME records pointing to lamurakami.asuscomm.com to replace the A records with IP addresses that I was manually updating. This means that when my gateway gets a new external IP address I don't have to do anything for my domain names to still point to my router.
• Thursday, January 8, 2009 @ 8:39:28 PM - I created this site as part of the project to be able to see my IP Address from outside my Local Area Network and to have my server report it's IP Address by email and to a static web page if it changes.

Monday, May 11, 2026 @ 8:25:02 PM
gci.ServerAdmin@lam1.us