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Floating IP challenge (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by alzymologist@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Ok, I'll share the ultimate guerilla-selfhosting challenge I can't figure out yet: what if my internet connection is G5 prepaid sim card in the middle of the woods (it actually is)? Apparently, I do have IPv6 more or less stable (undocumented), but that's kind of limiting at times. Seems barely possible, but!

The https://homebrewserver.club/low-tech-website-howto.html#network states:

The fiber connection itself is not necessary, especially if you keep your data footprint small, but a fixed IP adress is very handy.

which kind of implies someone figured out a way to get around it. Would someone share the trick?

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

DynDNS short for dynamic DNS is what you want. But IPv6 only websites are unfortunately even in 2026 still not accessible by many people due to their ISP only supporting IPv4.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably reverse proxy too if it's really unstable

[–] uenticx@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is how I handle DHCP connections with endpoints, plus I don't want to expose the origin.

curl ip.me and change a varnish config line every 5 minutes if it changes.