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Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by songzme »

genewitch wrote: post #30
jaytaylor wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocking port 25 is pretty annoying. I know there are explanations, but a month ago I really wanted to run a mail server for jaytaylor.com myself. Only to find out it's basically impossible with mainstream ISPs. It's not a realistic option, regardless of Comcast, AT&T Fiber, no big boy ISP supports it at this point. I don't know if ATT even provides email with my service, much less for a custom domain. How did the de…

Which docker images? I've been having trouble finding "simple" mail servers for incoming and outgoing. Stuff like postfix and dovecot make my eyes cross, I just want to point DNS at an IP and send and receive mail there, securely. It's not that I can't set those other ones up, I just don't want to, nor should I have to for a small service...

Stuff like postfix and dovecot also make my eyes cross

I've been using nodemailin to receive all emails as POST requests. Set the DNS ip address to a vps on hostwinds (they don't seem to block incoming port 25) so it worked for me right away.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-mailin

https://www.hostwinds.com/

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by charcircuit »

daenz wrote: post #37

>Enter Yggdrasil This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.

It's from Minecraft

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by H1Supreme »

aftbit wrote: post #20

>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'm outside of Pittsburgh, and I've had two different IP's in the last 10 years. The IP change only happened when I upgraded my service a few years ago. I suspect it would still be the same if I didn't change plans.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by lettergram »

aftbit wrote: post #20

>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…

You can get 5 static IPs from AT&T for $5/month. I’ve done this recently, the techs were confused but I was able to configure well enough on my own

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by TheArcane »

RF_Savage wrote: post #13

The fixed global IP sounds like an excellent use of IPv6. I'll have to look into running a node or two of this as an experiment. Preferably as a wireless mesh. Mounted in some high place.

What are the tracking implications of this? With a fixed IP, ad companies wouldn't have to do any fancy fingerprinting

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Post by userbinator »

aftbit wrote: post #20

>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…

From what I've heard and experienced, Southeast Asia is mostly "interNAT" -- you don't get a publicly routable IP unless you pay a lot more, CGNAT is all you get.

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Post by zakki »

buzzwords wrote: post #5

Would this be useful to people in countries like Iran, where the internet is restricted and completely cut out whenever the government needs to shut people up?

If they have Great Firewall like China, eventually they can shut this down. They will analyze the traffic and make a fingerprint of this traffic.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by jethro_tell »

gfody wrote: post #42
NorwegianDude wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Port 25 is blocked by default for many ISPs around the world, and it makes sense. Look at it this way: If it was open by default, a lot of IPs would be blacklisted, making them basically unusable for email anyway. You can always rent a subnet or a server including network and host mail yourself.

you can also call your isp and get port 25 unblocked, gp's experience hasn't been my experience

I suppose you can, but in my experience, I think you'll find that people proactively find the dynamic ranges of IPs in eyeball networks and make it very difficult to get mail accepted. If you want to send email from your own server, you will either have to get a 'business/static IP' account or use an IP in a block where you can both control the RDNS and servers are expected to be. i.e. a VPS provider or colo IP range.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by jethro_tell »

jaytaylor wrote: post #50
fragmede wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution is to pay for business-class Internet at your home.

That's true, even though I'm not a business. Would it be more cost effective to do a DO droplet? (haven't tried it personally yet).

yes, a VPS would absolutely be cheaper. Even if you get the port unblocked, you're still not going to be able to set reverse DNS for spf records unless you have a business connection with static IPs. An IP alone will probably cost you the same as a VPS that will run a tunnel back you your home box.

In my experience, a business connection is usually twice the price and half the bandwidth.

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