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What was the name of the Spanish company that offered a similar idea circa 2010? They had a big community branding and a catchy name – and the focus was on phone calls.
Perhaps you are referring to Fon, though their idea was quite different (‘democratized public Wi-Fi hotspots’, basically), and despite the name I don’t think they did anything re: phone calls. I think I still have one of their Fonera routers lying around somewhere (long unused by this point). Looks like they’re still around, but these days they partner with telcos rather than individual consumers [1]. One of the larg…
>Nowadays, running a website from home is just about impossible. You may not have a public IP, and if you do, it likely changes from time to time. And even then, your ISP probably blocks you from running servers on it. I'm not sure about the author's country / ISP, but here in Midwest USA, our residential ISPs (cable or DSL, fiber if you are lucky) generally do not change IPs frequently (unless your router/modem is r…
I moved to a new location a few miles away, and Xfinity doesn't cover this area. The new ISP blocks the following:
"TCP 25, TCP 80, TCP 443, TCP 445, TCP 1080, TCP 6667-6669, TCP 1433-1434, TCP&UDP 135-139, TCP&UDP 67 are blocked for security and network management reasons"
The only way I can get high speed service that doesn't block these is to purchase a business plan from PennTeleData, but they won't even talk to you unless you have a federal tax ID for an actual business.
I ended up putting haproxy on a free Oracle instance and changing what port I listen at here at home.
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> our residential ISPs [...] generally only block port 25 (SMTP) While outbound connections to port 25 may be blocked, the ISP we are with still allows inbound connections to port 25. I have a few accounts on the net tied to an old domain, and what I've done with that domain is that I now have the MX record for that domain set to my home IP address, but I reject connections to port 25. Then, when I need to reset a pa…
Wow the idea of using a throwaway MTA to block marketing emails is super interesting. Do you reset your MX record after the reset is finished, or do you just go back to blocking 25? But at that point, why not run your own MTA all the time and then just have your firewall cut port 25 off? When you want to start accepting mail again just turn the firewall rule off temporarily. That way you don't need to muck with setti…
> But at that point, why not run your own MTA all the time and then just have your firewall cut port 25 off?
You could do that as well for sure. Mainly I do it the way I do simply because the mail server I am running on my desktop that I linked to is run from the terminal and I routinely close terminals which I am not using.
But for example instead of running the server from your desktop you could use the same general idea and have it always running on a Raspberry Pi and block port 25 like you say.
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Wow the idea of using a throwaway MTA to block marketing emails is super interesting. Do you reset your MX record after the reset is finished, or do you just go back to blocking 25? But at that point, why not run your own MTA all the time and then just have your firewall cut port 25 off? When you want to start accepting mail again just turn the firewall rule off temporarily. That way you don't need to muck with setti…
I keep the MX record all time and just block port 25. Before using it again I just double check that the global IP is the same still or if the MX record needs to be updated. > But at that point, why not run your own MTA all the time and then just have your firewall cut port 25 off? You could do that as well for sure. Mainly I do it the way I do simply because the mail server I am running on my desktop that I linked t…
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The set of techies and the set of nordic people are both minorities in the world - but they don't overlap.
Tbh, you don't have to be Nordic to have a basic grasp of mythology from around the world and Yggdrasil is pretty commonly known. Even if people just know it from Marvel comics or heavy metal or something.
Is there a community or conference that is a good “watering hole” for ideas like this one? (Ideally not web3/crypto related - real decentralized solutions - not scams and hucksters)
Otherwise, IRC chatrooms maybe?
>Nowadays, running a website from home is just about impossible. You may not have a public IP, and if you do, it likely changes from time to time. And even then, your ISP probably blocks you from running servers on it. I'm not sure about the author's country / ISP, but here in Midwest USA, our residential ISPs (cable or DSL, fiber if you are lucky) generally do not change IPs frequently (unless your router/modem is r…
Cox (USA) blocks inbound port 80, rendering it impossible to get Let's Encrypt certs via http validation. This started in the last year and affects millions of people.
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I keep the MX record all time and just block port 25. Before using it again I just double check that the global IP is the same still or if the MX record needs to be updated. > But at that point, why not run your own MTA all the time and then just have your firewall cut port 25 off? You could do that as well for sure. Mainly I do it the way I do simply because the mail server I am running on my desktop that I linked t…
I was thinking of just having my MTA sit in a daemon process and then messing with firewall rules. Thanks for the idea!
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Do you have the name of the offer, or how to ask for it?
Just call and ask https://www.att.com/support/article/smb-internet/KM1181996/