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hisao@ani.social 3 days agoI’m in the same boat with many things I’m using AI for. I would never write natpmpc port-forwarding demons, I would never create my own DIY VPN, etc, if I had to do this all by myself. Not because I can’t, but because I don’t enjoy spending my time diving into tons of manuals for various utilities, protocols, OS level stuff, networking, etc. I would simply give up and use some premade solutions. But with AI, I was able to get it all done while also quickly getting to know some surface-level things about all of this stuff myself.
a custom VPN without security minden planning and knowledge? that sounds like a disaster.
surely you could do other things that have more impact for yourself, still with computers. use wireguard and spend the time with setting up your services and network security.
and, port forwarding… I don’t know where are you running that, but linux iptables can do that too, in the kernel, with better performance.
Oops, I meant self-hosting a wireguard server, not actually doing an alternative to wireguard or openvpn themselves…
and, port forwarding… I don’t know where are you running that, but linux iptables can do that too, in the kernel, with better performance.
With my previous paid VPN I had to use natpmpc to ask their server for forwarding/binding ports for me, and I also had to do that every 45 seconds. It’s nice to get a bash script running in a systemd demon that does that in a loop, and also parses output and saves remote ports server gave us this time to file in case we need them (like, for setting up a tor relay). Also, I got another script and demon for tor relay that monitors forwarded port changes (from a file) and updates torrc and restarts tor container. All this by Copilot, without knowing bash at all. Without having to write complex regexes to parse that output or regexes to overwrite tor config, etc. It’s not a single prompt, it requires some troubleshooting and clarifications and ultimately I got to know some of the low level details of this myself. Which is also great.
Oops, I meant self-hosting a wireguard server, not actually doing an alternative to wireguard or openvpn themselves…
oh, that’s fine then, recommended even.
With my previous paid VPN I had to use natpmpc to ask their server for forwarding/binding ports for me, and I also had to do that every 45 seconds. It’s nice to get a bash script running in a systemd demon that does that in a loop, and also parses output and saves remote ports server gave us this time to file in case we need them (like, for setting up a tor relay).
oh so this is a management automation that requests an outside system to open ports, and updates services to use the ports you got. that’s interesting! what VPN service was that?
All this by Copilot, without knowing bash at all.
be sure to run shellcheck for your scripts though, it can point out issues. aim for it to have no output, that means all seems ok.
what VPN service was that?
be sure to run shellcheck for your scripts though, it can point out issues. aim for it to have no output, that means all seems ok.
It does some logging though, and I read what it logs via systemctl --user status. Anyway, those scripts/services so far are of a simple kind - if they don’t work, I notice that immediately, because my torrents not seeding or my tor/i2p proxy ports not working in browser. In case when error can only be discovered conditionally somewhere during a long runtime, it needs more complicated and careful testing.
Serinus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
A diy VPN is exactly the disaster scenario of vibe coding.
hisao@ani.social 3 days ago
I agree, I should have clarified I actually meant setting up a wireguard server on a vps, not developing and alternative to wireguard or openvpn.