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> You can host more than one domain per ip. Yes, but some things become tricky: - SMTP reputation is related with reverse DNS of your public IP - reverse-pro
by southerntofu 5y ago
> You can host more than one domain per ip.
Yes, but some things become tricky:
- SMTP reputation is related with reverse DNS of your public IP
- reverse-proxying TLS-encrypted trafic relies on SNI headers, which not all protocols implement
- some protocols entirely don't have a virtualhost (domain) notion, like gopher or SSH
Overall, it's not so easy and simple. Sure i don't care that IoT devices don't have public addresses. To be honest, i'm firmly against IoT as a dystopian nightmare (good luck breaking into your home when your "smart lock" fails). However, public addresses and symmetric bandwidth are very important politically speaking, because they ensure that everyone is given equal opportunity to publish information.
Before the Internet, we had mostly asymmetrical communications. Newspaper required considerable resources to setup, and radio stations were (and still are) government-approved because there is limited channels available... so people could only consume information, not spread it. The Internet did away with this scarcity by having all IP addresses created equal, and everybody having as much upload than download speed (before xDSL).
Internet was the first network where everybody could create content and actually practice what some people call "freedom of speech" for a marginal cost. If you take away public IPs or introduce asymmetric bandwidth, it's not the Internet anymore: you are creating yet another passive consumption network where big corps and nation states tell you what to think.
I personally think asymmetric DSL is the worst that happened to the Internet so far. It's created the idea that there's different hardware and connectivity for clients (we the people), and for servers (fancy machines in datacenters)... two different classes of devices if you will. Nothing could be further from the truth, but this manipulation by the telco industry gave birth to the centralized hosting hellscape (GAFAM) that we know today.
- DeathArrow 5y agoYou are right that anyone having its own IP address would mean less censorship. But also those IPs should be available without an entity having to assign. And not only that but we would also need a free DNS system so you can't be denied host resolving. And the domain names shouldn't be controlled by someone entity because you can be denied having one or the issuer can withdraw you domain. Most censorship I've seen was done by DNS filtering. Also some domain names were withdrawn from their owners even if they didn't do something illegal.
- southerntofu 5y agoYou may be interested to check out the GNU Name System. It seems to address the points you mention here, because delegation is ensured via public key (not IP).
- poetaster 5y agoI was doing public, student radio in the 1980s. Cost nothing but time and effort to do the work. We had a huge audience without advertising or gov't interference. The yearly fund raiser and student union sufficed. Community.
- southerntofu 5y agoThat's cool! How did you get a license to use a specific bandwidth though? Was it easier back then?
- poetaster 5y agoThe Student's Union. In Canada, all the Universities and many Technical schools have a license. It's a CRTC regulated thing. I don't remember the legal framework in detail, but public broadcasting is deemed a necessity https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/community-broadcasting https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/community-...