RdWeb MFA for FREE

6th December 2024

As our 2nd factor authenication we are going to use a free DNS service called FreeMyIp.com

Browse to the above website and type (YourBusinessName)1 and click CheckAvailability

If your biz is popular you may have to try a few times to find something available

when you do click Claim It!

You will be presented with a long URL including a TOKEN, this will be our 2nd factor, copy it to your clipboard

Create an email and paste in the long URL and send it to whoever you want to have remote access. Tell them to save a bookmark to that URL and name it something like “Fix RdWeb”

Now on your firewall, Block all remote access and allow access only from the DNS name you chose above ie YourBusinessName1.freemyip.com
Record the URL/Token + assigned user somewhere for when the user changes laptops, I like to paste it into the comment of the firewall rule.

Now as long as the user is coming from the above URL they will be able to access RdWeb, anyone else will just get an error message.

Lather, Rinse, Repeat for each offsite user.

Mission accomplished