[ale] State of play re home Internet with static IP

Tue Mar 5 00:50:26 EST 2019

Why is always someone asking why? Ours is not to reason why! Ours do or
die.  A hacker hacks. A tinker tinkers. And those that can't teach.

I like that I have my lab, I have more running in my setup that you can pay
for with a couple of cloud server cost. Everyone about cloud this and cloud
that, well read the sticker, it someone else computer. My hardware. My
Servers. My DNS. I have Five Firewalls, both commercial and open source, I
have learned so much doing it my own that use some cloud server.

In fact, with my setup, I am running almost 65 servers over 8 servers that
have been donated to me. ( I do still take donations. ), I currently
resetting 12 cisco switch.

Oh, I have hosted from my home, to make some extra coin.

The other reason when you have a static/business account, your SLA so much
better than those who aren't ( Resident Pleasants. )

Anyway, stop using other people computer. Hack, Destroy, and build your
own. Trust your techno lust.

Terrorpup

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:05 PM dev null zero two via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> a couple dumb questions:
>
> why do y'all host email at home other than for learning / lab purposes?
>
> why do y'all need static IPs aside from email server purposes when dynamic
> dns works so well nowadays with cloudflare for instance?
>
> most next gen firewalls can take DNS in place of IPs for ACLs and rarely
> does any commercial internet facing service have just one IP address in any
> case (anycast, load balancing, etc)
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:58 PM Jeremy T. Bouse via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I just dumped my Comcast Business Internet and Comcast Residential Cable
>> service at the first of the year. At that time Comcast was raising the rate
>> on the monthly router lease which I only begrudgingly got because they said
>> that was the only way I could get a /29 static subnet so I was paying for
>> the 50/10 internet service, the modem and the static IP block. I went with
>> AT&T GigaPower fiber. I'm getting 995/956 as of my last speed test
>> yesterday.  So to address Joey's comment about it not being fiber to the
>> side of the house, I can claim with 100% certainty that I have fiber all
>> the way into my second story room where my router sits as I watched the
>> tech run the fiber up to the box and plug it all up. Then again the ADSL
>> service I had years ago before going with Comcast was delivered over fiber
>> to the beige box in my neighbors yard across the street where it went from
>> the ONC to copper to the side of my house, but in the past couple years AT&
>> brought the fiber the last 25-50yards give or take to the side of the
>> house.
>>
>> So far in the 2 full months I've had the service I've had no outages and
>> I'm pushing TBs up and down through it. The only port blocking I've
>> encountered is their old grandfather's firewalling of 25/tcp outbound but
>> nothing stopping ports inbound so far that I've found. I have the same /29
>> subnet worth of static IP addresses at $10 less per month than Comcast and
>> AT&T doesn't charge a monthly fee for the router and the installation fee
>> was waived for me. I'm currently paying half what I paid for Comcast and
>> have over 20x the bandwidth.  I was paying $150 to Comcast for the Business
>> internet and they were raising that so I went with AT&T for $75 a month.
>> On 3/4/2019 7:24 PM, Jeff Hubbs via Ale wrote:
>>
>> After many years at the status quo (AT&T UVerse and POTS land line) I'm
>> finally looking into a rework of the home telecomm situation.
>>
>> I have two main drivers that are forcing the decision:
>>
>>    1. Even after the shortest of power outages, upstream UVerse service
>>    goes dead and stays dead for 10-20 minutes. This was not always the case
>>    but in the last few years it's been the "new normal;" my wife works at home
>>    via VPN enough that that's a problem, and it's no good for me either. Yes,
>>    I have UPSses out the wazoo on everything and it doesn't matter. I've tried
>>    to get through to AT&T by phone to at least get the problem acknowledged
>>    but that's been impossible.
>>    2. There's a good chance I might be leaving town for my next job for
>>    an unknown amount of time, but that won't mean that I'll stop being the "IT
>>    guy" for the house; I will simply *have* to be able to shell in from the
>>    outside. If there is such a thing as a "reflector" service that sits on the
>>    Internet - even if it's my own server somewhere - that gives me a way to
>>    tunnel in reverse through some kind of connection that's initiated from
>>    inside the house, I don't want to be dependent on it.
>>
>> Being able to run my own Internet-reachable web and email servers in the
>> house is anticipated but is secondary to those two main drivers.
>>
>> It is my understanding that only AT&T and Comcast serve my street.
>>
>> I've spoken to a rep for Comcast Business and they're telling me that
>> within reason (with respect to affected region(s) and length of outage, I
>> presume) their service will remain unaffected by power outage. That handles
>> 1. above, and they also offer as few as one static IP address which should
>> be sufficient to handle 2.
>>
>> I have not yet called about any of AT&T's business residential offerings
>> but when I got a flyer in the mail about some kind of fiber service being
>> available in my neighborhood and called to inquire, I couldn't get anything
>> even remotely like a straight answer but the upshot was that no, the fiber
>> service wasn't available to me. I'm quite rather done with AT&T, to be
>> honest.
>>
>> Comcast says they can give me a VoIP-like service that can optionally use
>> my old phone number. I'm undecided on that; the phone rings with random
>> robocalls and other solicitations 3-5 times a day (Do Not Call list
>> notwithstanding) and there are only 3 living persons whom we know who ever,
>> *ever* call that line.
>>
>> We would like to have a TV service with DVR available and it's my
>> understanding from talking to Comcast that it would have to be Xfinity
>> piggybacked on the Comcast Business service. It would be either that or
>> satellite to still have DVR. I've never dealt with satellite service before
>> but the houses to either side of us have it. I've built an HDTV antenna and
>> mounted it in the attic but I haven't completed the cabling to know for
>> sure how well it will work, and if we went that route, there'd be no DVR
>> unless I went the whole MythTV (or equivalent) route and I'm really not
>> willing to try that again.
>>
>> I'm all (rabbit) ears, so let your replies rip.
>>
>> - Jeff
>>
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