kratoz29

I expose some stuff through IPv6 only with my Synology NAS (I am CGNATED) and I have always wondered if I still need to use fail2ban in that environment…

My Synology has an auto block feature that from my understanding is essentially fail2ban, what I don’t know is if such a feature works for all my exposed services but Synology’s.

No time to self host their own social media I guess.

Yeah, and I am the one suffering blocking everyone lol.

I don’t think it is that much for me, I kinda like “infinite content” what I don’t like is being bombarded with content that is not in English or Spanish… Which I clearly specified within the Mastodon settings to be my preference… So I spend most of the time navigating through said hashtags feeds blocking users speaking in other languages 😑

It seems that the hashtags feed doesn’t care about language preferences… Or the users posting don’t follow the language rules or whatever.

Yeah, at this point they just think we are stupid as, as if they were taking a huge toll with the bandwidth by capping the remote playback option… They are not hosting the files ffs.

Huh, I was somewhat excited about the elimination of the playback limit for mobile apps (we are in 2025 ffs!) and then re-read that this will be only applicable for the subpar preview version once it is released… Which doesn’t fucking has the watch together feature lmao.

The only good news in a nutshell is that I am still a Plex Pass Lifetime User, so in a nutshell I don’t get good news lol.

I can understand new features being behind a fee, but this is putting old, old capabilities behind a paywall. Hmmm…

I am a Trakt user, was an Evernote user and I am (thankfully) a Plex Pass user…

What service are we missing that has done the same? We should make a list if there is not one already.

tailscale and zerotier are wireguard, but with a public server that helps with NAT. Syncthing uses a public server for that too.

wireguard was specifically made to be as simple and minimalistic as possible.

Zerotier wasn’t always Tailscale was it?

is there such a problem? honest question. But I think that might be a different issue

You need to be connectable to download from all the peers, likewise non connectable users can’t download from you, and how do you become connectable? By opening your ports, something that might seem archaic from somebody who has totally embraced IPv6.

maybe they just don’t see working on it profitable enough

Yeah maybe.

Just to clarify, I have several workarounds for the 3 issues that have involved spending more money or not to get rid of CGNAT.

• For the 1st one… Well I already mentioned it, I am a ZT and Tailscale user, I did try Wireguard from a VPS once though, but I didn’t like that I was entirely dependant of my upload speed, maybe I had my Iptables wrongly configured but I usually got faster speeds just using ZT or Tailscale (I didn’t need to relay in the US VPS server).

• For Torrenting… I actually haven’t found a solution to use IPv6… I did use a container client to use my VPS at that time though, it being Digital Ocean and thus getting a DMCA letter for downloading TWD me being a LATAM user was… A kinda funny experience, with that said I stopped that project immediately, it was fun to give back to the community with my 24/7 NAS always seeding though.

• For the last point… Well, I do use ZT and Tailscale to access the server myself, but when I want to expose it, I usually do it with a reverse proxy pointing out to my IPv6 address, and more recently using a Tailscale funnel, I haven’t tried it thoroughly, but at least it seems to connect without using Plex’s relays.

As you can see, one needs to be well prepared with workarounds to deal with CGNAT.

The fact that Syncthing seems to solve CGNAT on its own has me wondering why there are not more solutions for the server/home side.

Why does Wireguard or any other VPN not work like Tailscale or Zerotier?

Why don’t torrent clients can’t work with IPv6 to seed more?

Why doesn’t Plex adopt a similar mechanic like Syncthing to expose the media over the Internet instead of being a prisoner of CGNAT?

I know I am just throwing different options with my personal frustrations lol, but I hope you get what I am trying to mean, Plex, torrent and home VPN users shouldn’t become masters at networking, especially when the documentation for the tools IS NOT ENOUGH.

Only if you have a very old Lemmy instance.

Summit, Voyager, Boost, Thunder, Eternity, Connect etc.

Actually this feature is a requirement to me (as well as a button/shortcut to hid said read posts) so if a Lemmy client does not have it I just won’t use it (reason number 1 why I stopped using Sync for Lemmy, it has been broken for months now).

I don’t know about you, but my first android experience was with MIUI in 2020 (can’t remember the MIUI ver and Android ver) and I was confused af, then fast forward to multiple custom ROMs I think they have obfuscate a lot of functions along the way in AOSP that I just say fuck it and end up using the search setting function.

So in a nutshell, I ask for a change, but for the better.

I can see my 5 year old android mobile struggling being a suitable self hosting machine… (Because of the battery).

But not gonna lie, having it working as a more advanced travel router connect to Tailscale sounds like a neat idea (which I think it is already possible? The other day I saw the client app that supports subnet routers? I just haven’t tried it, and it has a disclaimer that it drains the battery… So I didn’t end up doing that at that moment when I was away).