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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Centralization is bad for everyone everywhere.

That bring said... I just moved my homeserver to another city... and I plugged in the power, then I plugged in the ethernet, and that was the whole shebang.

Tunnels made it very easy. No port forwarding no dns configuration no firewall fiddling no nothing.

Why do they have to make it so so easy...

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[–] qaz 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

This is false. Some ISP's change IP's often, but some don't and sometimes geoip lookups can be really accurate. My IP has remained the same since I moved in, and a geoip lookup results in a coordinate less than a kilometer away. It does matter.

[–] Aux 4 points 5 months ago

I guess you live in a country with loads of spare IP addresses. Here in the UK they change every few days and IPs get rotated between all ISPs, so you can't even deduct which ISP I'm using. And sometimes my IP is not even a mainland UK IP, but some weird shit from across the world, because Empire, lol.

[–] pirat 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When looking up my static ip, the location I get is the one of my ISP, not my address. Do you happen to live nearby some central infrastructure of your ISP? (If it seems otherwise, I'm not trying to debunk what you said - I'm just asking curious questions!)

[–] qaz 1 points 5 months ago

Yes, it seems to be a hit or a miss. I don't think I live near any central infrastructure or ISP, especially not this specific part of the city.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

@qaz @Aux now you’ve just exposed where you live not your ipaddress. Nobody would have thought it was that close now they do.