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I recently moved to Ireland. Here I have Virgin Media fiber, and I was pretty upset to learn the router was very locked down, and I can't even port forward. I
by beAbU 3y ago
I recently moved to Ireland. Here I have Virgin Media fiber, and I was pretty upset to learn the router was very locked down, and I can't even port forward.
I have a bunch of services that I host from home, and with my previous provider (and country) I had a static IP with all the associated DNS and DMZ stuff to make it work.
I was about 2 days into a VPN rabbit hole when I discovered that Virgin gives out IPV6 AND IPV4 IPs, and that the v6 ones are publically routable! I was able to access my hosted service by plugging in the server and going to it's IPv6 address on my phone. Some quick Cloudflare IPV4 to IPV6 proxying later and I'm up and running as before. Can now access the service from any internet network (even IPV4 ones). No more DMZ, port forwarding, etc. Happy days.
So yes, I moved away from V4 in about an afternoon, no issues.
I'm not sure if the IP is static though. The server has a reserved V4 IP for internal stuff, I hope the router is clever enough to then keep the V6 one also static. With the address space being so large, I guess giving clients entire blocks of addresses that are static is perfectly fine?
- oguzkonya 3y agoDo you have a blog post or something detailing your experience? I'm in the exact same situation (Ireland, Virgin, self-hosting) and after a week of struggling I couldn't find a way to expose my services. I'm happy to run everything locally at the moment as I only have a media server but I'm interested in running a few websites and services.
- smackeyacky 3y agoTailscale can solve this problem
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- beAbU 3y agoIs it possible to use tailscale to punch out to the public internet, having the service available behind normal DNS, accesible by clients that are not part of your tailnet?
- aborsy 3y agoTailscale funnel does that, except the DNS uses the tailscale domain.
- PLG88 3y agoThere are a whole bunch of alternatives too - https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. I will advocate for zrok.io as I work on its parent project, OpenZiti. zrok is open source and has a free SaaS as well as more built in security.
- beAbU 3y agoI dont, sorry! But I'll see if I can find some time to write something up and put it somewhere for you to access. Media server is also the service that I host :)