ellie
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I do art, writing, and sometimes tech things!
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 1 week ago:
Most offer it, but often not for the regular consumer contracts.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 1 week ago:
For what it’s worth, regarding port blocks, I had relatively good experiences with that with a local ISP here. There’s no guarantee, but many ISPs block SMTP to present accidental botnets from sending email and not technical users, so by asking might already be enough to show that you know enough about it to be unblocked.
As for the blocks, many spamlists you can get yourself unlisted. But I don’t know what permanent range blocks may exist in some systems beyond that.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 1 week ago:
The alternative is to get your ISP to offer you a static IPv6 and a reverse DNS PTR entry for your IPv6, like I asked for in the initial post. Some ISPs do if you offer them more money, some only do if you offer them more money and a legit business registration, apparently a few rare ones do it for free, and some never do it.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 1 week ago:
While I agree on a practical level, and pragmatism sure is important, long term it still makes you pay into cloud services and gives cloud companies an easy way to directly man-in-the-middle your traffic. So I’m hoping one day the situation will improve.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 3 weeks ago:
It causes way more traffic for the DNS server to use a shorter TTL, so yes, it does incur more DNS traffic. In Germany some providers will disconnect you regularly if you stay connected for too long.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 3 weeks ago:
Some ISPs require changes ever 24 hours and will disconnect you if needed. Also, if you set DNS to cache so little that you can react to that in 5 minutes, you will incur way more DNS traffic which can become a problem when your site is busier.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 3 weeks ago:
Even in an ideal DNS setup, you’re probably going to have downtimes whenever your dynamic IP changes. If only because some ISPs even force-disconnect you after a while to change your address.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 4 weeks ago:
No german ISP does this.
You know, what’s kind of encouraging is that I posted something similar to this complaint on reddit, and 100% of the responses were corporate apologia how it would apparently be so much work and so much more expensive to provide a static instead of a dynamic IP, or how routing through VPSes is so much better anyway. I hadn’t realized the reddit to lemmy brain drain was so bad, which seems good for decentralized morally good hosting.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 4 weeks ago:
Personally, I find it hard to believe that just not changing somebody’s prefix all the time would possibly cause so much technical extra effort that any additional fee is justified.
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