On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 09:48:37AM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > John A. Leuenhagen via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 12:27:24AM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > > > Regarding the Internet as of today and Al Gores vision and the Internet > > > commerce etc. > > > > > > I always wondered why it is not possible for me and probably many other > > > people to not get a *static* IPv6 address additionally when you sign up > > > as private individual at an ISP of your choice? > > > > > > People could use as usual still common IPv4 for their regular surfing etc. > > > but had then the ability, with a static IPv6 address to run their own > > > email server and other services from home with a little Raspberry Pi etc., > > > without purchasing a VPS plan, thus one would only need to register a > > > domain of choice and the records management could also bee done a) with > > > the Domain Registrar or your local ISP, instead of the VPS hosting > > > provider. > > > > Certainly it would be preferable to have a static IPv6 address for that > > sort of thing, but it's still quite simple to run services from home by > > using dynamic DNS. I'm able to have ddclient run on my router, which > > will inform my DNS provider (Cloudflare) of any changes to my dynamic > > IPv4 address. Sure, during the occasional change to my address, my > > services might go down for a minute or two. For me at least, that's not > > the end of the world. > > Well, yes and no. I run many years ago with a dynamic IP address services > too and had a domain with no-ip.com. But nowadays if you like to run a mail > server you will need a static IP address, because if it would be dynamic > your are considered as spammer, due to black listing of dynamic IP address > ranges. That is true, you definitely need a static IP address to run a mail server. For many other things though, I've managed to get by with a dynamic address.
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