<story><title>Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network</title><url>https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10319-make-the-internet-yours-again-with-an-instant-mesh-network</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaytaylor</author><text>Blocking port 25 is pretty annoying.  I know there are explanations, but a month ago I really wanted to run a mail server for jaytaylor.com myself.  Only to find out it&amp;#x27;s basically impossible with mainstream ISPs.  It&amp;#x27;s not a realistic option, regardless of Comcast, AT&amp;amp;T Fiber, no big boy ISP supports it at this point.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if ATT even provides email with my service, much less for a custom domain.&lt;p&gt;How did the de-facto solution become &amp;quot;Just use Gmail&amp;quot; or pay a third party to do it?  It&amp;#x27;s a little sad for those of us who like running our own servers, total uphill battle.  All that work in the early days of the internet to ensure such a feat was possible, only for it to become near impossible for most, regardless of technical prowess.&lt;p&gt;Just give all your data to a huge company, it&amp;#x27;s fine.  Pft.&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the rant.  Am I really becoming those old hags I used to make fun of on slashdot?  Shoot...&lt;p&gt;p.s. It&amp;#x27;s easier than ever to do, too, because high-quality docker images are abundant.  Tragic for nerds like us!</text></item><item><author>aftbit</author><text>&amp;gt;Nowadays, running a website from home is just about impossible. You may not have a public IP, and if you do, it likely changes from time to time. And even then, your ISP probably blocks you from running servers on it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure about the author&amp;#x27;s country &amp;#x2F; ISP, but here in Midwest USA, our residential ISPs (cable or DSL, fiber if you are lucky) generally do not change IPs frequently (unless your router&amp;#x2F;modem is restarted), and generally only block port 25 (SMTP). I&amp;#x27;ve been running a web&amp;#x2F;ssh server from home in some form or another since 2002, originally with DynDNS to paper over the IP changes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NorwegianDude</author><text>Port 25 is blocked by default for many ISPs around the world, and it makes sense. Look at it this way: If it was open by default, a lot of IPs would be blacklisted, making them basically unusable for email anyway.&lt;p&gt;You can always rent a subnet or a server including network and host mail yourself.</text></comment>
<story><title>Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network</title><url>https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10319-make-the-internet-yours-again-with-an-instant-mesh-network</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaytaylor</author><text>Blocking port 25 is pretty annoying.  I know there are explanations, but a month ago I really wanted to run a mail server for jaytaylor.com myself.  Only to find out it&amp;#x27;s basically impossible with mainstream ISPs.  It&amp;#x27;s not a realistic option, regardless of Comcast, AT&amp;amp;T Fiber, no big boy ISP supports it at this point.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if ATT even provides email with my service, much less for a custom domain.&lt;p&gt;How did the de-facto solution become &amp;quot;Just use Gmail&amp;quot; or pay a third party to do it?  It&amp;#x27;s a little sad for those of us who like running our own servers, total uphill battle.  All that work in the early days of the internet to ensure such a feat was possible, only for it to become near impossible for most, regardless of technical prowess.&lt;p&gt;Just give all your data to a huge company, it&amp;#x27;s fine.  Pft.&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the rant.  Am I really becoming those old hags I used to make fun of on slashdot?  Shoot...&lt;p&gt;p.s. It&amp;#x27;s easier than ever to do, too, because high-quality docker images are abundant.  Tragic for nerds like us!</text></item><item><author>aftbit</author><text>&amp;gt;Nowadays, running a website from home is just about impossible. You may not have a public IP, and if you do, it likely changes from time to time. And even then, your ISP probably blocks you from running servers on it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure about the author&amp;#x27;s country &amp;#x2F; ISP, but here in Midwest USA, our residential ISPs (cable or DSL, fiber if you are lucky) generally do not change IPs frequently (unless your router&amp;#x2F;modem is restarted), and generally only block port 25 (SMTP). I&amp;#x27;ve been running a web&amp;#x2F;ssh server from home in some form or another since 2002, originally with DynDNS to paper over the IP changes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>genewitch</author><text>Which docker images? I&amp;#x27;ve been having trouble finding &amp;quot;simple&amp;quot; mail servers for incoming and outgoing. Stuff like postfix and dovecot make my eyes cross, I just want to point DNS at an IP and send and receive mail there, securely.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not that I can&amp;#x27;t set those other ones up, I just don&amp;#x27;t want to, nor should I have to for a small service...</text></comment>