> Home internet in the 90s felt simple. You plugged into Ethernet, got an IPv4 address, and you could expose a service directly.
Maybe the 2000s, yes. This experience in the 90s was reserved for businesses and schools that could afford a T-carrier connection. The rest of us had dialup.
If you are already running a VPS, the SSH -J option is useful if you don't want to expose your SSH to your home public address.
You create an SSH reverse tunnel (-R option) from a server in your home network to your remote VPS. This gives you a localhost port on your VPS to your server SSH port. Something like:
ssh -NT -R 2222:localhost:22 vpsuser@yourvps.com
From your laptop, use your your VPS address and localhost port in the -J option. Something like:
This looks like an excellent overview of the current state of things, and some nice practical instructions on getting end to end connectivity working.
Personally I don't think IPv6 will ever supplant IPv4. As far as big tech is concerned, NAT solves the problem well enough for clients and SNI routing solves it well enough for servers.
What incentive do they have to make things better for small orgs and p2p use cases? Better from their perspective to retain control over IPv4 real estate and extract rent.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 62.6 ms ] threadMaybe the 2000s, yes. This experience in the 90s was reserved for businesses and schools that could afford a T-carrier connection. The rest of us had dialup.
I guess that works for most people except gamers and people who get rate limited because of the actions of others.
Article is correct, IPv4 didn’t die hard.
You create an SSH reverse tunnel (-R option) from a server in your home network to your remote VPS. This gives you a localhost port on your VPS to your server SSH port. Something like:
From your laptop, use your your VPS address and localhost port in the -J option. Something like: I only allow ssh key auth and only my laptop is trusted by my home server. The home server doesn't need to trust the VPS "jump server".They've built such an incredible product I actually feel guilty I pay absolutely nothing for it.
Personally I don't think IPv6 will ever supplant IPv4. As far as big tech is concerned, NAT solves the problem well enough for clients and SNI routing solves it well enough for servers.
What incentive do they have to make things better for small orgs and p2p use cases? Better from their perspective to retain control over IPv4 real estate and extract rent.