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Some ISPs provide static IPs for an additional fee. Also, there are services like Cloudflare[1] and NoIP[2] that provide Dynamic DNS (DDNS) so you can tie your dynamic IP to a static address. [1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/operations/dns-records-for-a-zon… [2]: https://www.noip.com

People used to use https://www.noip.com/ and similar services for this.

Yep, free dynamic DNS still exists, for example NoIP https://www.noip.com/ However, you have to refresh it each month by filling out a "I'm still using it" web form they email you. So, you can't just set it & forget it.

Another option is to use dynamic DNS service like - http://www.noip.com IIRC they also supports wildcard subdomains. I've recently started to add a local. record to the DNS of the project which points to the statically defined local Vagrant IP, as you often need to add dev and staging records anyway.

It's been a long time since I've used the service, but I'm pretty sure you can use no-ip to get what you're looking for done: https://www.noip.com

I've never tried this, but could you enable access from a given hostname rather than IP address, and then use a dynamic DNS system like http://www.noip.com/ to automatically update a hostname when your IP address changes? Two downsides I can see are that a) you would be vulnerable to DNS poisoning attack on the server side, but that would be the equivalent to just opening it up to all IPs, and b) dynamic DNS systems can take a short while to refresh the DNS record and/or it can get cached by your servers up-stream DNS servers. Some tinkering with your server to make it always use the authoritive DNS servers for your dynamic DNS hostname would help with that. I'm just thinking out loud, I've never tried any of that!

SSH File sync applications are reliable... Android: "Transfer Files To Computer, PC" ( Michal Bukáček includes GPL git URI, YMMV as we still need to audit it for traffic) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.bukacek.filestocomput… iPhone: PhotoSync is free to transfer movies and low-resolution images https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photosync-transfer-photos/id415850124 MacOS: https://github.com/macfuse/macfuse/releases Windows 11: sshfs is slow, but allows user account constrained access to remote shares winget install -h -e --id "WinFsp.WinFsp" winget install -h -e --id "SSHFS-Win.SSHFS-Win" https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win Windows 11 system tray sshfs link manager: https://github.com/evsar3/sshfs-win-manager Windows 11: Local OpenSSH service setup https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openss… If your home router is dynamic DNS only, the ISP will usually still support ports >1000: https://www.noip.com/ Or DIY with your own DNS solution with cloudflare: https://linuxconfig.org/automate-dynamic-ip-updates-for-your-domain-wi… Also tried KDE connect a few years back, but didn't like the idea of giving a buggy phone access to shoulder-surf root accounts. Transferring stuff out of a VM with a local samba instance also works, but samba should also be containerized. Best regards, =3

Here's a very cheap way to get started: I'm going to assume you have a Windows computer that you can leave on 24/7. Go get Virtual Box (an open-source VM application) https://www.virtualbox.org/ and download a .iso from a distribution of your choice. (Maybe even try a few different distributions.) Install Linux on the VM. Whenever you set up a service, open up a port for it on your router. Use Dyndns https://account.dyn.com/ or No-ip https://www.noip.com/ to set up a domain. The advantages of the above approaches is that they require little (or no) money to start, and allow you to try a lot of different things. The nice things about VMs is that you can make a few of them, and back them up before you make changes, so it's easy to make mistakes and go back. If / when you're ready to spend some money, you can either move to a physical computer or a VM hosted somewhere. Just hold off on doing this until after you've made a few mistakes.

I just quickly loop through them and categorieze chunks of time, just to see how I work. I have iphone as input, put on the table on the right which also captures my posture - I slouch almost all the time. There is a problem however - I work on mac m1 and obs recordings take full 4 out of 8 cores so actually I am recording only when I notice I am starting to procrastinate. All recordings I remove afterwords to save up space. Obs is turned on all the time though. I wanted to use obs-ndi to combine output from another laptop, but I have some issues with it so I just record mac atm. I also have powerfull desktop on the side and can ssh between all those by name, but desktop is noisy so it's off most of the time. Also there is raspberry pi with simple script with which I can turn on desktop remotely via Wait On Lan udp packet, dns handled via https://www.noip.com with which my router has an integration, but I actually never used it. I've done this setup to justify purchasing this powerful desktop in the first place :) humble brag, I know. Here is screenshot of obs recording with sneak peak of my room https://imgur.com/a/m92R7Bx

Personally I use https://www.noip.com

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There are "Dynamic DNS" services with a small daemon you install on your server that continuously update the DNS address so it remains online even if your ISP changes your IP on you. https://account.dyn.com/ https://www.noip.com/remote-access

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"And the company’s [Microsoft's] once sour relationship with the security research community began to improve. The company now routinely works, for example, with law enforcement to disrupt criminal botnet networks" If it was reference to NoIP takedown, that's not quite a success story: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/microsoft-pinkerton/ http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/07/10/microsoft-takedown-details-updates…

Microsoft could swoop in and solve this :D https://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-microsoft-ta…

TD;DR? http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/07/10/microsoft-takedown-details-updates… The "new Microsoft" is worse than the old one.

This reminds me a lot of the no-ip.com case. Did anyone ever find out how that was resolved? Apparently Microsoft gave back the domains[1], but did they face any payments for damages or censure? [1] http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/07/10/microsoft-takedown-details-updates…

According to No-IP's previous official statement, the order was served without prior notice: http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-microsoft-tak… Courts do not have carte blanche - they have laws that govern the bounds of their authority. The implication of the parent comment is that even if Microsoft was given a court order, it wasn't necessarily legal for the court to do so.

Edit: Looks like Microsoft filed for and got a emergency temporary restraining order against all the defendants including No-IP. http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com/docs/Second%20Amended%20Order%20-%20fla… Also this is No-IPs response to Cisco's previous accusations. http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/02/12/cisco-malware-report/ They did have lot of chances to contest. Apart from Microsoft's notices, the court sent a notice to No-IP which they didn't respond to. They cleary state that ex-parte decision will be taken if they don't respond. Maybe federal courts don't like it very much if you act like they don't exist. http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com/docs/Summons%20for%20Vitalwerks.pdf

No-ip's official response is here: https://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-microsoft-ta…

They also deny Cisco's allegations here. http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/02/12/cisco-malware-report/ It doesn't compute that Cisco is casting blame on them and Microsoft got a court order when all they had to do is send an email. It's kind of strange, they're probably unable to keep up with the abuse reports and validating them or something. There are a lot of dynamic DNS providers so why do the bad guys pick them for the most part for their DNS needs?

You can read No-IP's formal statement here: Thttps://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-microsoft-ta…

> Yeah, there's really no excuse for not talking to the people at the company first. The only reason I can fathom would be that if Microsoft suspected the owner of No-IP to be actually involved with the botnet operators. Or they knew that No-IP had long been aware of the abusive domains and had not done anything about them. OpenDNS published a report on malware support domains in April 2013, identifying No-IP as the top provider of them [1]. No-IP posted a comment responding to that so we know they saw it. Cisco published a report in February 2014 on dynamic DNS abuse [2], naming No-IP as a major provider for malware domains. No-IP posted a comment linking to a formal response on their blog [3]. The gist of their response is that they don't tolerate abuse, they actively work to find it and stomp it out, and they responsd quickly to reports sent to their abuse address, and they invite Cisco to send a report to their abuse address. Ignoring well documented reports of abuse because they no not arrive via the right bureaucratic channel does not project the right image if you want to be seen as a white hat company. [1] http://labs.opendns.com/2013/04/15/on-the-trail-of-malicious-dynamic-d… [2] http://blogs.cisco.com/security/dynamic-detection-of-malicious-ddns/ [3] http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/02/12/cisco-malware-report/

Next time, read the rest of the article? > Microsoft has seen more than 7.4 million Bladabindi-Jenxcus detections over the past 12 months, which doesn’t account for detections by other anti-virus providers. Despite numerous reports by the security community on No-IP domain abuse, the company has not taken sufficient steps to correct, remedy, prevent or control the abuse or help keep its domains safe from malicious activity. > On June 19, Microsoft filed for an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) from the U.S. District Court for Nevada against No-IP. On June 26, the court granted our request and made Microsoft the DNS authority for the company’s 23 free No-IP domains, allowing us to identify and route all known bad traffic to the Microsoft sinkhole and classify the identified threats. No-IP in the past has denied allegations, e.g. the Cisco blog post linked to by Microsoft was denied here: http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/02/12/cisco-malware-report/ This is also a temporary order, it's not permanent. Sure, it's creepy when courts have control over DNS entries, but ... they do. The Internet isn't lawless, it operates within the legal bounds of each country that participates. I wonder what No-IP will say next and if figures collected by independent groups verify their "swift action" against security threats. As a company providing DDNS services, I wouldn't expect them to understand and use the latest in packet filtering techniques, but ... abuse is abuse and I'm sure…