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0 pointsz3t42y ago0 comments

Just contact your ISP to get a public IP. You might not get a static IP, but you can configure a dhcp client to request your old IP when reconnecting after a power outage. Set DNS TTL reasonably low like 12 hours so that you can recover if you do get another IP.

Another way is to signup for a cheap VPS and use a tunnel to your home server. There's lots of really cheap VPS's with 128MB of memory that is plenty if you just want a tunnel.

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SteveNuts2y ago

It's not really a silver bullet nowadays, residential plan ISPs are very wary of allowing inbound connections in my experience

z3t4OP2y ago

The problem is the lack of IPv4 addresses. IPv4 addresses are ridiculous expensive. And most people don't need a public address so ISP save a ton of money by using NAT. I don't know if they must give you one or not if you ask, but I think a public IP address should be a human right, or you should at least be able to change to an ISP that can provide one.

nicolas_172y ago

How can a public IPv4 address be a human right while at the same time "we ran out of them" and there aren't anywhere near enough for everybody?

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