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Kubernetes Home – what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

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Re: Kubernetes Home – what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

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"My ISP is in total control over my external IP addresses. I don’t pay for permanent IP addresses, and while they haven’t so far changed neither my IPv4 address or my IPv6 network, it can happen. Probably by mistake, since I have no kept my current ones for three months"

If you can't shell a buck or persuade your isp to reserve a static ip for you. Try to persuade their dhcp server.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2131#section-3.5

And, again, if you can't handle fundamentals, drop the Google level tech. You are not that deep.

Re: Kubernetes Home – what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

#12

How about a wireguard tunnel from an ingress box? You still pay for one VPS, but can run everything locally and just load balance at the ingress. I just manually add configs to nginx, but there are automated tools too.

Lol, kind of defeats the purpose

Re: Kubernetes Home – what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

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post #12

How about a wireguard tunnel from an ingress box? You still pay for one VPS, but can run everything locally and just load balance at the ingress. I just manually add configs to nginx, but there are automated tools too.

Lol, kind of defeats the purpose

What defeats what purpose? I don't run k8s out of some love of ... managing external IPs?

Re: Kubernetes Home – what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

#15
post #7

Dealing with changing residential ips is nothing new. It's interesting to see how it's still being solved for even in this overly complex k8s landscape we find ourselves in now. Back in the day we'd use free services like https://freedns.afraid.org/ on a cron to refresh the ip every so often. I used afraid to refresh my dial up ip address, for my "hosting service" domain. The "hosting service" was an old tower pc liv…

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>> ddns

> Yeah don't do that if you want to be a professional with pride in their craft

Why not?

Re: Kubernetes Home – what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

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Dealing with changing residential ips is nothing new. It's interesting to see how it's still being solved for even in this overly complex k8s landscape we find ourselves in now. Back in the day we'd use free services like https://freedns.afraid.org/ on a cron to refresh the ip every so often. I used afraid to refresh my dial up ip address, for my "hosting service" domain. The "hosting service" was an old tower pc liv…

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Re: Kubernetes Home – what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

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post #11

"My ISP is in total control over my external IP addresses. I don’t pay for permanent IP addresses, and while they haven’t so far changed neither my IPv4 address or my IPv6 network, it can happen. Probably by mistake, since I have no kept my current ones for three months" If you can't shell a buck or persuade your isp to reserve a static ip for you. Try to persuade their dhcp server. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/h…

It's really concerning that we have people trying to use tools like Kubernetes without understanding the basics that underlie them, like networking.

Post author should read Beej's Guide to Network Programming and come back when that's comfortable for them.

Re: Kubernetes Home – what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

#19

> what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses? I update the DNS record. Manually. It's a once in a blue moon thing, and I assume the probability of it is low enough that it will not occur when I'm so far from home that "it can wait until I get home" doesn't suffice. 15+ years or so now, and that strategy has worked just fine. … TFA's intro could do with explaining why the IP is so hard coded in the cluster,…

> Manually. It's a once in a blue moon thing, and I assume the probability of it is low enough that it will not occur when I'm so far from home that "it can wait until I get home" doesn't suffice.

It's very common here (germany) to be forcefully disconnected and reassigned an IP from the pool once a day here, especially on DSL contracts - and we still got a lot of vectored to the limit DSL. It's in fact so common, that JDownloader has a client for some common routers built-in so it can automatically dodge one-click-hoster IP limits.

And our cable internet companies all use CGNAT by now, good luck getting anything through that.

Re: Kubernetes Home – what do you do if your ISP changes your IP addresses?

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lol, kind of defeats the purpose

What defeats what purpose? I don't run k8s out of some love of ... managing external IPs?

Are you even running a real homelab if you're not running MetalLB in BGP mode?!

Sarcasm obviously, but it's a fun exercise, especially if you get a real (v6, probably) net to announce.

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