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Crap, I really need to switch of Tailscale but currently it is an easy way for me to access my stuff outside of home as a temporary solution while I am on a 5G modem.
I can recommend to take a look at netbird.io
I can't. I tried it first and installed it on my phone from f-droid. After opening it up, it connected to an already existing network with other people's old machines from years ago on it. I was horrified.
So then I tried to delete my whole account and couldn't due to an error. I sent them an email about it and they took like two weeks to respond.
Netbird isn't on F-droid
Are we talking about the same thing?
It used to be
It has never been on F-droid. I've been following the service since it started. It didn't even have a mobile app not that long ago.
It's possible I misremembered and got the apk from their website or github. Doesn't change anything though.
I just went back though my emails, I got a reply email from their CTO promising to look into it and they would get back to me, but they never did.
Much more user friendly
Json is awful for config
Crockford is a good and smart person but he really dropped the fucking ball on JSON.
Double-quotes-only and no comments kill the whole spec for me. Extremely opinionated and dumb. I fucking hate JSON.
My boss once sent me a machine generated config. He's terminally addicted to double-quotes (like, a fatal condition). I searched and there were 27k sequences of
\".Edit: my point is - all that compute and network wasted, every single time the file is requested and parsed. Completely pointless waste
Do you pay for a domain? They likely provide dynamic DNS (DNS). If you're lucky, they have an API for it, instead of an app, and you can configure a cronjob on your home server to run every 1-5 minutes (or more often, if your IP is super unstable!).
Yeah I can always do that, but putting stuff behind something like Tailscale is (or atleast feels) more secure than making my IP known to the public. I have a DMZ setup though so it should be fine.
Your "IP address" is already public. That's why an IPv4 address is assigned to you as a "public IP address" and you NAT to a private space. When using IPv6, everything is public.
The key is to secure everything with access restrictions.
Well yes I know, but there is a difference between using a domain bound to me as a person and a random string of numbers that changes every 5 minutes
Chances are you've had the same public IP for a long time. Mine hasn't changed in 2 years.
@chronicledmonocle @Vinstaal0 I used to work for a dial-up ISP. Every IP is registered to an account, if you're going through your ISP (as opposed to, say, coffee shop or hotel wifi). Though the people who have the information are different (ICANN/registrar vs your internet provider), there's no anonymity in your home IP address even with CGNAT.
As far as your domain, you should have privacy protection enabled so people can't find your personal info via whois.
That was the case when I lived with my parents, but now it changes every 5 minutes sadly.
So I had to shut down my Minecraft server etc for now because I am on a 5G modem which makes it really annoying to open up ports and point a domain to your IP
If your IP changed every 5 minutes, you would not be able to have a voice call or anything similar. Your IP probably changes every 24 hours
I just checked, yes it is every 24 hours, but I have to restart that thing regularly so that it is why it feels quicker I gues