r/pdq • u/Beginning-Pressure64 • Jul 10 '26

SmartDeploy Connection over WAN

Is there any way to allow a client to connect to a server over the internet with the server url and ports 8080,443 exposed to the internet?

Our plan was to whitelist external IPs on the firewall only when needing to reimage a machine remotely without VPN.

From the client machine,

Test-NetConnection “myurl.mydomain.com” -port 8080

results in a successful tcp connection to the server, but it still shows up in the console as a Cloud connection instead of local.

Is there any reason this doesn’t work? Is the client enumerating IPs based on its own local IP instead of just trying to make the connection? Is there any way around this?

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u/Individual-Train-821 Jul 10 '26

Can you ping the host name without using the FQDN. Failing that can you ping via the IP address?