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What's happening on your servers? Any interesting news things you tried?

I didn't do anyone other than updating Mastodon (native deployment) lately due to a lack of time. Reading so much about Immich caused me to consider trying it in parallel to Nextcloud but I'm not sure if I want to have everything twice.

Not quite homelab, but I'm about to install Linux Mint on my mom's laptop and that had me thinking about creating an off-site backup in her place again since she has a fiber connection. I'm still not sure about the potential design though, but currently my only backup is in the same rack as the live stuff.

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I finally got my ISP to enable bridge mode on my modem.

I also learned that I didn't lose port forwarding and related services because I had been moved behind CGNAT or transitioned to IPv6 -- they simply no longer offer port forwarding to residential customers. Ruminate on the implications of that statement so I'm not the only one with blood pressure in the high hundreds.

[–] WiseWoodchuck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

My ISP did the same thing recently and what was most annoying is they didn't admit to changing anything, while trying to sell me a business account.

This weekend I setup Pangolin on a budget VPS and forwarded it back home. I don't have my VPN backup but it fixed Plex and I can access my security cameras again.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Port forwarding is done at the router/firewall, so if ports can't be transferred its a cgnat thing they are doing. Like a Non CGNAT IP on the internet can be sent a packet on any port.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

No, I got it from the horse's mouth: my WAN address was publicly routable all along, the ISP just disabled those NAT-related features remotely.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

the implication of that is weird to me. I'm not saying that the horse is wrong, but thats such a non-standard solution. That's implementing a CGNAT restriction without the benefits of CGNAT. They would need to only allow internal to external connections unless the connection was already established. How does standard communication still function if it was that way, I know that would break protocols like basic UDP, since that uses a fire and forget without internal prompting.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It's perfectly reasonable from the perspective of corporate scum: take away a standard feature, then sell it back as an extra. As far as I know, the modem still had UPnP for applications that rely on it.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Oh shit, that's terrible.